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Letter: Climate change is real science, but will alt-right accept it?

The outstanding performance and stellar reputation of PNNL has once again earned the laboratory another grant. This time for $2.5 million to study the more frequent and more violent thunderstorms in the central U.S.

Too bad the anti-science attitude of the Trump Administration is likely to trash the results if they are tied to climate change, which Trump and his alt-right supporters are likely to claim as more bad science and fake news.

Carl Grando, West Richland

This story was originally published September 8, 2017 at 2:04 PM with the headline "Letter: Climate change is real science, but will alt-right accept it?."

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