Scientists outraged by climate-skeptic report commissioned by the Trump administration

The indignation of the American scientific community has not abated. Since the publication on July 29 of a report by the US Department of Energy on "the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the climate of the United States," many researchers have denounced the accumulation of errors, omissions, and falsifications that, according to them, pepper the 150 pages of this text.

This one, commissioned in March by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a former shale gas executive, aims to deny or understate the risks faced by the United States due to climate change. "Global warming is a challenge, not a catastrophe," Mr. Wright summarizes in the preamble. According to our information, the climate science community is preparing a collective refutation of the text, which is still theoretically open for comment for the time being.

The report's release came hours after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced his intention to revoke the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding , following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that required the agency to regulate greenhouse gases. The Endangerment Finding is a set of scientific facts characterizing the risks of global warming to the American population; it forms the legal basis for the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

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