Trump Climate Deniers Prompt Scared Scientists to Set Up Hotline
- Researchers scramble to back up U.S. global-warming research
- ‘An observation not made is lost forever,’ a scientist says
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The leading U.S. weather agency finds itself in the eye of a storm: climate change in the age of Trump.
With global-warming deniers in Washington, outside scientists are setting up an anonymous hotline for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s employees to report political meddling. Fearing deletion, academic researchers are backing up U.S. data. Insiders are considering jobs outside government.