U.S. scientists will mark Earth Day by marching on Washington in protest at U.S. President Donald Trump's stance on climate change and on science they consider under threat from ideology, organizers said on Thursday. "This long-simmering history of anti-science is on a freight train that's barrelling down on all of us," said Kathleen Rogers, president of the Earth Day Network, the Washington-based non-profit that coordinates Earth Day. Scientists were alarmed that science may not drive policy-making under his leadership, said Bordelon, after Trump dismissed global warming as a hoax created by China to weaken U.S. business. The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. Organizers said the march would span other scientific issues beyond global warming.

Source: CBC News February 02, 2017 21:40 UTC