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"A group of more than 85 climate experts has released a scathing review of the
Trump administration’s “Climate Working Group” report on climate change
science, condemning it as “biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform
policymaking.”
The reviewers include MacArthur “Genius” Fellows, a half-dozen members of the
National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society fellows, and fellows from other
prominent scientific organizations including the American Meteorological
Society, which issued its own separate statement criticizing the Climate
Working Group report.
They found that the federal report “exhibits pervasive problems with
misrepresentation and selective citation of the scientific literature,
cherry-picking of data, and faulty or absent statistics” in order “to downplay
the risks of record-breaking heat, intense rainfall, worsening wildfires,
rising sea levels, and widespread health harms – all well-established by
decades of peer-reviewed science.”
The Trump administration’s report was authored by five longtime climate deniers
— Steve Koonin, John Christy, Ross McKitrick, Judith Curry, and Roy Spencer —as
part of its effort to gut federal powers to regulate climate-heating pollution
from cars, power plants, and other major sources. The Department of Energy
(DOE) released it on July 29.
On the same day the Trump report was released, Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s proposal to rescind the
foundation of those regulations: its scientific “endangerment finding”
affirming that carbon pollution threatens human health and welfare by creating
dangerous planetary warming.
Texas A&M climate scientist Andrew Dessler organized the volunteer effort to
review the report, which is being submitted to the Department of Energy during
the public comment period that closes on September 2. The public comment period
on the EPA’s proposal is open through September 22."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
