As an atmospheric scientist, it was refreshing to see more focus on climate change in this election cycle. Climate change directly affects the economy, public health, infrastructure, agricultural productivity, extreme weather, energy, national security, water supply and more. Here is a guide to four climate change implications of the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election. It further documents a strategy to undermine NOAA climate science leadership and its influence on the U.S. National Climate Assessment. In 2018, Time magazine documented what the EPA website looked like under a year of what it called “climate change censorship.” The direction of the EPA on climate change is on the ballot Tuesday.

Source: Forbes October 30, 2020 12:22 UTC