Trump removes scientist who led sweeping climate change report and other officials

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The climate scientist leading the federal government’s program that produces sweeping reports on the climate crisis has been removed from his post by the Trump administration. Dr Rachel Licker, senior climate scientist with the advocacy group, Union of Concerned Scientists, told The Independent that Dr Kuperberg’s removal “is the icing on the climate inaction cake that the Trump Administration has been baking the last four years”. She added: “Since day one, the Trump Administration has taken every measure at its disposal to prevent action on climate change, including trying to undermine climate scientists and research. “This is a sad last-ditch effort to try and promote these fringe ideologies and embed them into the National Climate Assessment, which they know will be directed by mainstream science when the Biden Administration takes over.” USGCRP oversees 13 federal departments and their work to tackle the climate crisis, along with producing four NCAs since 2000.