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AMS: Trump Claim About Climate Scientists ‘Misleading And Very Damaging’ [1]

"In his interview with Lesley Stahl on Sunday night, President Trump said that climate scientists who find that human activities are driving climate change have a “very big political agenda.”

The American Meteorological Society (AMS), the leading scientific society for meteorology and related disciplines, pushed back forcefully on that assertion.

In a letter to Trump published Tuesday, the AMS called Trump’s claim “misleading and very damaging.”"

Jason Samenow reports for the Washington Post October 17, 2018. [2]

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Source: Washington Post [2], 10/19/2018
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ams-trump-claim-about-climate-scientists-%E2%80%98misleading-and-very-damaging%E2%80%99 [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/10/17/trumps-claim-about-climate-scientists-is-misleading-very-dangerous-leading-weather-group-says/?utm_term=.a210f35afb58 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [8] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81