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Red team-blue team? Debating climate science should not be a cage match

  • Written by Richard B. Rood, Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
imageHaving an antagonistic debate over climate change will not shed any more light on the fundamentals of climate science. Ivica Drusany/Shutterstock.com

Scott Pruitt, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has called for a “red team-blue team” review to challenge the science behind climate change. “The American...

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