Loose Change: Trump administration demotes climate report director

The Trump administration has reportedly reassigned and demoted the scientist who directed the most recent version of the National Climate Assessment (NCA), as an interagency office starts developing the next edition of the influential climate science study that is slated to be released in 2022. The New York Times reports on the personnel shift, noting that Michael Kuperberg was told Nov. 6 that he will no longer be executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and...