White House climate panel to include a skepticPresident Trump is planning to establish a 12-member committee to study whether global warming affects national security, despite existing government reports showing such a threat. According to a White House memo released last week, the panel will include William Happer, a Princeton physicist who has said that carbon dioxide — a greenhouse gas that scientists say is warming the planet — is beneficial to humanity. The effort to establish the panel appears to be the latest step by the Trump administration to question the science of climate change. Perspective: The effects of climate change are a daily presence in Miami. In an Op-Ed, Ban Ki-moon, former secretary general of the United Nations; and Francis Suarez, the city’s mayor, wrote about Miami’s efforts to adapt.

Source: New York Times February 21, 2019 10:30 UTC