"The president joined Republican officials who slammed the National Academies of Sciences for a chapter about climate science in an educational guide for judges."
"President Trump has jumped into the fray over a hotly contested chapter on climate science in a reference manual for judges.
Hours after attending the World Cup final on Sunday, the president took to Truth Social to attack the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine over the manual, which was released last year and has drawn criticism from Republican officials.
The chapter in question provides an overview of climate science, including how carbon dioxide and other gases trap heat in the atmosphere, and how human activity has disturbed that natural cycle. The authors noted that science is always evolving but characterized the United Nations’s scientific body, which has said the burning of fossil fuels is driving climate change, as an authoritative source.
The reference manual was partly funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the National Academies of Sciences, and the president wrote in his post that he was ordering officials to scrutinize the funding. “Our Taxpayers should not be funding Climate Fraud, and Judges should never have relied upon it,” Mr. Trump wrote."
Karen Zraick reports for the New York Times July 20, 2026.
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