Trump Taps Global Warming Critic to Reopen Nation’s Climate Change Office: ‘Professor in Exile’ The United States' Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has been dormant since President Donald Trump took office, and efforts are underway to revive it with a distinctly contrarian approach.
The appointment of Matthew Wielicki as the new head of USGCRP is being touted by some as a return to sound science, but this move represents a throwback to a time when skepticism about climate change was in vogue.
Wielicki's background and views are well documented. He has been critical of the mainstream scientific consensus on climate change, arguing that scientists exaggerate the threat posed by human activities.