"Dozens of the world's leading climate researchers on Tuesday publicly rebuked a hastily assembled report from the Trump administration that questions the severity of global warming - marking one of the strongest repudiations yet of the president's efforts to downplay climate change. In a withering 459-page document, more than 85 scientists denounced the Department of Energy's July report as biased, error-ridden and unfit for guiding policy."
"The report "fails to adequately represent the current scientific understanding of climate change," they wrote. The authors include veterans in atmospheric science, physics, ecology, forecast modeling and several other fields at universities, think tanks and research institutions in the United States and abroad."
"Titled "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the report was written by five researchers selected by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright. It was published after the White House dismissed more than 400 scientists working on the sixth National Climate Assessment and shut down the website that housed the previous assessments. The Environmental Protection Agency leaned on the Energy Department report in its hotly contested proposal to repeal the endangerment finding, a landmark 2009 determination affirming that planet-warming greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and the environment."
More than 85 U.S. and international climate researchers publicly denounced the Department of Energy’s July report as biased, error-ridden, and unfit for guiding policy. The critique spans 459 pages and states the report fails to adequately represent current scientific understanding of climate change. The researchers include experts in atmospheric science, physics, ecology, and forecast modeling from universities, think tanks, and research institutions worldwide. The Energy Department report, titled "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," was produced by five researchers selected by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The report coincided with dismissal of scientists from the sixth National Climate Assessment and was cited by the Environmental Protection Agency in a proposal to repeal the 2009 endangerment finding.
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