Loose Change: Trump official floats climate papers without OSTP approval

A group of climate change skeptics has published a series of papers questioning the seriousness of human-caused climate change, claiming the essays are the copyrighted ownership of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), even though the Trump administration says it did not request or approve the documents. “These papers were not created at the direction of [OSTP] nor were they cleared or approved by OSTP leadership,” OSTP spokeswoman Kristina Baum said in an email, according to...