When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy

For 30 years, John Christy has drawn on his pioneering but hotly disputed work to argue that the Earth is not heating as quickly as climate models predict, and that society should not make the costly decision to curb fossil fuel consumption based on what he often describes as the “murky” science of climate change. This point of view has made him an insider in the Trump era.