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Wednesday, August 06, 2025

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a sweeping effort to do away with the endangerment finding, a proposal that not only disregards science but also has huge consequences for stemming the climate crisis ...

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Even as the world reels from the hottest year ever recorded, the Trump administration is taking unprecedented steps to make climate change denialism the foundation of its federal policy.

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-- Foreign Policy (@foreignpolicy.com) Aug 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM

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... But in addition to being crafted by five known climate contrarians, the report is riddled with climate denial tropes, cherry-picked evidence, and distortions of the indisputably well-established facts on climate change. For example, the report claims that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are good for agriculture without acknowledging the significant negative impacts of climate-driven heat, drought and floods on crops.

Multiple scientists whose papers were cited in the report slammed the misrepresentation of their findings, pointing out how the DOE report often stated the opposite of what the peer-reviewed studies actually concluded. Ben Santer, who is among those scientists, said that the DOE report contradicted his findings while citing his research on climate "fingerprinting." Within a day of being released, the report was already well and thoroughly on its way to being completely debunked. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-06 03:09 PM | Reply

Energy Sec Wright on X ...

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... The remarkable part of my CNN interview is that we spent nearly the entire interview talking about the new @ENERGY
climate report but the host had no interest talking about its findings!

For years, the MSM wanted to talk about climate change but now that the FACTS are out"quiet! ...


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... The ceaseless repeating from the media, politicians and activists claiming that climate change is making weather more dangerous and severe is just nonsense. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-06 03:38 PM | Reply

... in addition to being crafted by five known climate contrarians, the report is riddled with climate denial tropes, cherry-picked evidence, and distortions of the indisputably well-established facts on climate change. ... Multiple scientists whose papers were cited in the report slammed the misrepresentation of their findings, pointing out how the DOE report often stated the opposite of what the peer-reviewed studies actually concluded. ...

I can only wonder what Pres Trump's control of the Bureau of Labor Statistics will do to the data reported ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-07 11:43 AM | Reply

"Anybody that is a global warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up their ass I'm not sure they could hear me."

James Cameron

#4 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-08-07 05:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

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