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  • AP FACT CHECK: Science contradicts EPA warming memo

    SETH BORENSTEIN and MICHAEL BIESECKER|Mar 30, 2018

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate scientists say an internal U.S. Environmental Protection Agency memo on how officials should talk to the public about global warming doesn't reflect reality. EPA's public affairs office put out "a set of talking points about climate change" to help the agency have a consistent message, the Huffington Post reported this week. The Associated Press, which also obtained the memo, contacted 15 climate scientists. They all said EPA wasn't accurately portraying the degree of knowledge that researchers know about climate c...

  • Science Says: Trump team garbles climate science

    Seth Borenstein and Michael Biesecker|Aug 10, 2017

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his Cabinet often avoid talking about the science of climate change, but when pressed what they have said clashes with established mainstream science, data and peer-reviewed studies and reports. Even the federal government's own reports — including a draft science study for the National Climate Assessment obtained this week by The Associated Press and other media — paint an entirely different reality than what's coming from the Trump administration. ___ COOLING and HOAX President Trump has not talke...