The issue focused on whether Obama or President Donald Trump would get an equal share of the climate change science research budget.

It was an issue that climate scientists have been pushing for years. The Earth Science Research Chair at the University of Virginia's climate science center, climate scientist Michael Mann, said that since Trump was elected, climate science research has been going through a "devastating period."

"We're going to go through the pain of research that we don't need and we don't want and