The Guardian is reporting it obtained emails showing that staff of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service are to avoid the term "climate change" in favor of "weather extremes."

The emails, sent after President Trump was sworn into office, reportedly list a series of terms that should be avoided and terms that should be used instead.

Politico reported in its Morning Agriculture newsletter that USDA has pushed back on the Guardian story.

Meanwhile, the New York Times has released a draft of the "U.S. Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Report."

Federal law requires the assessment be completed every four years and there is some fear that it will not be released because there are climate change deniers within the Trump administration, including Trump himself.

The 673-page report provides an updated analysis on how climate change is impacting weather in the United States.

The draft report concludes "that it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20^th century."

Among the findings from the draft report: