U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials<br />They’re obviously not getting it from their own scientists.”<br />While there were pockets of resistance to the report in the Trump administration, according to climate scientists involved in drafting the report, there was little appetite for a knockdown<br />fight over climate change among Mr. Trump’s top advisers, who are intensely focused on passing a tax reform bill — an effort they think could determine the fate of his presidency.<br />Though the study has been in the works since 2015, several scientists said the election of Mr. Trump, who has labeled climate change a “canard”<br />and appointed cabinet members who disputed the scientific consensus, caused them to worry the report would be blocked or buried.<br />WASHINGTON — Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration’s position on climate change, 13 federal agencies unveiled an exhaustive scientific report on Friday<br />that says humans are the dominant cause of the global temperature rise that has created the warmest period in the history of civilization.
