Shistain Dropped Phony 2025 Climate "Study" From Five Hacks In Eliminating Endangerment Finding
When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its bedrock endangerment finding Thursday, it explicitly excluded a controversial report issued last year by the U.S. Department of Energy that argued the dangers of human-induced climate change were being overstated. The EPA cited the report in announcing its intention to rescind the endangerment finding last year, but those citations were not part of the final rule.
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The DOE report, titled “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate,” which critics have called “antiscience” and a “scientific felony,” was published last July. It has been widely criticized since its publication as misleading and cherry-picked. Last month, a federal judge ruled that the Energy Department violated the law when it formed its Climate Working Group. Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, said Friday that the report was likely left out of the final rule because they “couldn’t defend it in court.” “They didn’t follow any of the normal procedures that you follow to make a scientific assessment,” Dessler told Inside Climate News. “We know how to make scientific assessments, and they didn’t do any of the things you need to do.”
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Dessler led a group of 85 climate scientists to produce a report called “Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report,” which argued that the DOE report was “not scientifically credible.” Another group of 114 public health researchers crafted a similar rebuttal to the report, which it filed as a comment with the EPA. “It’s a real testament to how mad people were about the report,” Dessler said. “I mean, they were mad because the report was so shoddy and violated all of the norms of science. In fact, violating the norms of science is the only way you can produce a report like that.”
John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and former Alabama state climatologist, was one of the five authors of the DOE report. Asked for comment, Christy said inquiries about the report should be directed to DOE or EPA. The Department of Energy did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13022026/controversial-climate-report-dropped-from-endangerment-finding-decision/
