House panel to weigh climate science

The House science committee is planning to hold a hearing next week focused on climate change science, amid Trump administration budget proposals to scale back federal climate research efforts and controversial remarks by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt denying that carbon dioxide is a “primary contributor” to global warming. The March 29 hearing , “Climate Science -- Assumptions, Policy Implications, and the Scientific Method,” will feature several witnesses that do not accept mainstream scientific conclusions that human-released greenhouse gases are the...