Andrew Dessler is a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University with a respected record as an author and editor for scientific journals. His latest project coordinates scientists' response to a Trump administration report that claims that climate change is not really all that dangerous.

"It is very carefully constructed, I think, to give people the opposite view of what's actually happening," Dessler told Newsweek .

The report from the Department of Energy (DOE), which was not externally peer-reviewed, was co-authored by five scientists who were hand-selected by the administration. Dessler said those scientists "don't represent the mainstream view" of climate science.

"The only way you'd get this report is if you picked these exact scientists," Dessler said. "If you pick

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