Climate science isn't giving your kid anxiety

Trump's newest argument for defunding climate science is that it's giving kids anxiety. But that's not really why kids are upset.

The Trump administration has a new argument for cutting climate change research and education funding: They’re just trying to protect kids from emotional harm.

It’s an argument I never expected to hear from Trump, who has historically been happy to gut climate research without giving any reason at all. (He’s also not exactly known for being sensitive to …