Opinion: Trump is attacking climate science. Scientists are fighting back.

ROBERT KOPP / THE NEW REPUBLIC – For over 75 years, the United States has been a global leader in climate change research. In the 1950s, scientists at the University of California showed that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere were increasing and established the first long-term CO2 monitoring system, while Norman Phillips at the Institute for Advanced Studies developed the first computer model of the global climate. The U.S. soon launched three of the world’s top climate modeling centers: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in 1955 (based in Princeton since 1968); the National Science Foundation’s Boulder-based National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1960; and NASA’s New York City–based Goddard Institute for Space Studies in 1961 …