Scientists rally over Trump climate report inaccuracies

Climate scientists are organising a coordinated public comment on a United States Department of Energy report that casts doubt on the scientific consensus on the climate crisis, reports Dharna Noor for The Guardian.

The report, published late last month, claimed concerns about planet-warming fossil fuels are overblown, sparking widespread concern from scientists who said it was full of climate misinformation; it was an attempt to support a proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency to undo the “endangerment finding”, which forms the legal basis of virtually all US climate regulations.

“A public comment from experts can be useful because it injects expert analysis into a decision-making process that might otherwise be dominated by political, economic, or ideological considerations,” said Andrew Dessler, a climate researcher at Texas A&M University who is organising the response to the report. “It is critical that federal policymaking is informed by the best available scientific evidence,” said Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences, in a statement.
Full report on The Guardian site