Climate change group scrapped by Trump reassembles to issue warning

Panel was disbanded after a Trump official voiced concerns that it did not have enough members 'from industry'

A US government climate change advisory group scrapped by Donald Trump has reassembled independently to call for better adaptation to the floods, wildfires and other threats that increasingly loom over American communities.

The Trump administration disbanded the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment in August 2017. The group, formed under Barack Obama's presidency, provided guidance to the government based on the National Climate Assessment, a major compendium of climate science released every four years.