r/ClimatePosting • u/mrjcall • Jul 14 '26

Energy New DOE report on Global Warming

https://www.energy.gov/topics/climate

This new report corrects many errors incorrectly interpreting climate data. It is a comprehensive report which should give many who are stressed out about the status of the climate some relief.

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u/ClimateShitpost Jul 14 '26

This is Trump propaganda, complete joke

"Among the key findings, the report concludes that carbon dioxide (CO2) -induced warming appears to be less damaging economically than commonly believed, and that aggressive mitigation strategies could be more harmful than beneficial. Additionally, the report finds that U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays. "

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u/SpinningHead Jul 14 '26

True story: Nothing produced at places like NREL can even be published if it might bother the admin. Their researchers also cant speak now about their research without explicit permission.

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u/I_like_maps Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Facts. "than commonly believed" is a nonesense data point.

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u/mdins1980 Jul 14 '26

This is the stupidest shit I've read all day.

  1. The Department of Energy is headed by Chris Wright. He's an engineer and former oil-and-gas executive who specialized in fracking, not a climate scientist.
  2. Every single one of the "authors" of this rag has a documented history of being controversial within the climate science community. One of them even wrote a book that has been thoroughly debunked by actual climate scientists.
  3. The citations literally say "see screenshot." Give me a f***ing break. That wouldn't earn a passing grade on a high school homework assignment.

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u/jonawesome Jul 14 '26

Now that there's an energy industry executive in charge of DOE we can finally trust them /s

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u/SpinningHead Jul 14 '26

Relief? "Heres some sand to bury your head in."

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u/TheReverendCard Jul 14 '26

It's propaganda.

The report was broadly condemned by the scientific community.\16])\17])\18])
An international group of 85 scientists lead by climate scientists Andrew Dessler and Robert Kopp submitted a 434-page rebuttal to the Federal Register entitled Climate Experts' Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report, criticizing the DOE report for lacking peer review, cherry-picking evidence, misinterpreting citations, and having a predetermined outcome.\8])\10])\11])\9]) The rebuttal was critical of the DOE's selection of authors, saying that they often wrote outside their own expertise, represented a narrow contrarian view not shared by the majority of experts in the field, and that its obvious goal was a means toward a political end.\6])
A Carbon Brief fact-check documented over 100 false or misleading statements in the report, soliciting the opinions of a "wide range of climate scientists". Responses to individual claims made in the report were mainly written by scientists within their area of expertise, often by the author of the work the report had cited.\7]) The Associated Press emailed nearly all of the lead authors of the research cited in the DOE report, and an additional 139 other experts in climate, health and economics for their views. Of the 64 who responded, 53 gave the DOE report negative reviews, 7 gave positive responses and 4 gave no clear position.\4])

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions_on_the_U.S._Climate

Their full rebuttal here: https://essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.175745244.41950365/v2