Update (January 3, 2019): Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Kelvin Droegemeier as the White House science advisor, Nature reports.
Kelvin Droegemeier, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, didn’t get into the controversy of climate change skepticism yesterday (August 23). At his nomination hearing with a Senate committee, the expert of extreme weather events skirted questions pertaining to climate change, saying that he didn’t study climate.
Andy Dressler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, was disappointed by Droegemeier’s answers, but not surprised. “This administration was never going to pick someone like John Holdren”—former head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) who was outspoken about the realities of climate change—“to be the president’s science adviser,” Dressler tells Science. “They want someone who is going to toe the line [on climate policy].”
Meteorologist David Titley, director of the Center for Solutions ...
