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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Brendan Rascius

Trump taps global warming critic to reopen nation’s climate change office: ‘Professor in exile’

The Trump administration has tapped a climate science critic — who describes himself as a “professor in exile” — to lead the nation’s climate change office, according to a new report.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program, which effectively hollowed out during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, will now be led by Matthew Wielicki, a former University of Alabama geochemist, Politico reported Thursday.

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