For those of us who cover climate change for a living, the blatant lies about election fraud that fed the mob felt very familiar.

"We’re also covering the sharp decline in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and a 2020 temperature record."

“These papers were not created at the direction of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy nor were they cleared or approved by O.S.T.P. leadership,” Kristina Baum, a spokeswoman for the office, said in a statement. Dr. Legates and a colleague were later relieved of their duties at the science office, though they remain employed in the government.