Donald Trump ends IPCC funding and 'abandons global science leadership’

The now enacted Budget 2017 for the United States government zeroes out funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - 

in stark contrast to the leadership role America has historically contributed to the process.

Brenda Ekwurzel is a senior climate scientist
and the director of climate science for the
 Climate & Energy Program at the Union
 of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

 The IPCC also appears as "zero request" for the fiscal year 2018 in both the State Department’s Congressional Budget Justification and the House’s State and Foreign Operations Bill - whose summary includes the IPCC on a list that “does not include funding for controversial or unnecessary programs”).

This is a remarkable departure considering the previous high regard for the IPCC, including the fact it was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about  man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”

Read the Ecologist story by Brenda Ekwurzel - “Donald Trump ends IPCC funding and 'abandons global science leadership’.”