The White House would have asked a working group to rethink climate assessments

The White House is assembling a team of scientists to reassess the government's climate results, according to a Washington Post report.

The informal working group, an initiative led by the National Security Council that would not be subject to the same monitoring and disclosure requirements as a formal advisory committee, would include scientists representing a mix of opinions, including including those skeptical about the role humans play. by warming the planet, sources said in the post.

Various government researchers have issued severe warnings about climate change and its risks. This includes the national climate assessment published in November by a large number of federal agencies, as well as a report by the national intelligence director last month, signaling that weather-related weather conditions are worsening.

Administration officials reportedly met Friday to discuss how best to train a group of federal researchers to examine the government's climate reports.

At the meeting, officials reportedly stated that Mr. Trump was unhappy with the release of the National Climate Assessment, which Democrats have used to lobby for a Green New Deal calling for a reduction carbon emissions.

The plans of the new group have not yet been finalized, and the impact or power they could exercise is unclear.

Some experts told La Poste that they feared that such a group would undermine national security by questioning the scientific consensus on the risks of climate change, but others were skeptical as to the fact that the working group would have a significant impact given the number of existing and ongoing research around the world.

"When it comes to climate change, we are talking about thousands of independent newspapers, coming from all over the place, discovering exactly the same thing: the climate is changing, we are doing it and most of the time, the impacts are quite bad. Camilo Mora, geographer and environmental professor at the University of Hawaii, said to the post in an email.

Under Trump, the government's environmental policies have changed dramatically. In January, Trump signed an order authorizing more logging on public lands. In December 2018, the Trump EPA lifted some emission restrictions on coal-fired power plants. In July 2018, Trump's US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to revert to certain rules relating to the Endangered Species Act.