National Academies backtracks on disputed climate science chapter, will review processOne of the nation’s most respected scientific institutions said Friday it will conduct a review of a disputed climate education chapter in a judicial manual, weeks after President Donald Trump ordered his administration to investigate the matter. In a post, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said it will review the process involved in producing the climate science chapter for the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The academies at the time declined to also remove the chapter from its website but said Friday the chapter will not appear on its website during the review. Trump had amplified complaints about the chapter last month, writing in a Truth Social post that he was ordering federal officials with authority over contracts and grants to look at funding for the National Academies. The National Academies noted that the chapter has “received considerable scrutiny” and has found that “questions about the processes used to develop the chapter warrant an independent review.”