US climate assessment committee resurrected

In August 2017, the Trump administration quietly disbanded a panel that provided scientific advice to government and business on climate change, but Columbia University and the state of New York have now resurrected it. Former Democratic congressman Rush Holt, the current chief executive of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called the elimination of the advisory committee for the sustained national climate assessment ‘yet another example of the administration’s increasingly blatant attempts to ignore and dismiss scientific information’. The committee was dissolved shortly after President Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.