The Trump administration has hired three prominent researchers who over the course of their careers have questioned and even rejected the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. Each were given positions in the Energy Department,

Democrats criticize Trump's cuts to the National Weather Service and his approach to climate change after at least 59 people died in major Texas floods that occurred over the July 4th holiday.

As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s disaster capabilities.

US retreat from climate commitments under the Trump administration will have “significant consequences” for the planet, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Euronews at The Europe Conversation.

The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, supercharging weather and destroying food systems.

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Trump’s statement echoes a common climate change denial myth that there was a scientific consensus in the 1970s that Earth would cool instead of warm. This is also wrong.

Ian Lowe, emeritus professor at Griffith University, accused him of “feeding climate denial in Australia”. Mr Lowe singled out News Corp (the owner of Sky News Australia) for giving him a platform, along with Fox News in the US.