EPA chief Scott Pruitt will launch an initiative to challenge accepted climate science using "red team, blue team" exercises developed by the military to identify weak points in his agency's field operations.

Pruitt hopes to recruit scientists who are skeptical of the role of greenhouse gases in global warming to provide a critique of mainstream reports on climate change, E&E News reports.

The idea isn't new—in March, a panel of skeptical climate scientists, called on to testify by Republican senators, advocated for the creation of "red team" to challenge the validity of the widely accepted conclusion that humans are contributing to the warming of the earth.

Continue reading on VICE News.