The National Climate Assessment, which is released every four years, combines the expertise of 13 federal agencies along with independent scientists, The New York Times explained. The last assessment, released in 2018, said unequivocally that the impacts of climate change were already being felt in the U.S. and would get worse if nothing was done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Trump administration tried to bury the report by releasing it Thanksgiving weekend, and President Donald Trump claimed that he did not believe it. Now, there is concern the administration is trying to influence the findings of the next assessment.

“Even in their final days, they are continuing to attempt to bury the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change,” Union of Concerned Scientists senior climate scientist Rachel Licker told The New York Times.

The administration on Friday reassigned Michael Kuperberg, a climate scientist who runs the U.S. Global Change Research Program […]