Trump administration is Reduce money for climate research, Federal scientists rejected Who worked on national climate evaluation, and Remove the previous versions of the report From government websites. Now, critics say, this is taking the next step: according to a trial filed by environmental groups this week, rewrite science.
As the environmental protection agency runs To cancel the dangerThe scientific determination of 2009 that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are endangered by public health and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act, Department of Energy. New review The influence of greenhouse gas emissions on the US climate aims to support EPA’s efforts.
The report was developed by this spring 2025 Climate Working GroupWhich is made up of five independent climate scientists selected by Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
But environmental groups and independent scientists have criticized the report and how it was written, claiming that it was secretly assembled by five scientists who are recognized by a large scientific community as climate doubt.
“The secret report was built by a set of known climate contradictions, which was commissioned to write this report, which is full of impurities,” said Rachel Clatus, Senior Policy Director of Climate and Energy Programs in the Union of the scientists concerned. “It clearly tries to give EPA a way to avoid its legal responsibility to address the heat -trapped emissions and the health loss of climate change.”
A “secret report”
DOE Report, Title “An important review of the effects of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on US Climate“The commission was commissioned in March when Wright gathered the group to a huge review of scientific conclusions in a very short time, no public announcement of this effort.
Five writers gave their final draft till 28 May. Preamble of reportThe authors wrote, “Small timelines and technical nature of content meant that we could not review all subjects.”
Their reports argued that carbon-powered warming is generally believed to be economically less harmful, and that aggressive American climate policies will have a very little effective impact on the global climate. This credits some warming for natural climate cycles or changes in the Sun rather than burning fossil fuel, and also claims that the increase in sea levels has not accelerated, unlike the widely accepted scientific evidence. Finally, it highlights the potential benefits of the level of growing carbon dioxide for plant growth.
“I would say it presents an incomplete and misleading picture of how climate change is affecting the United States,” said a climate scientist Phil Dafi, who previously worked as a science policy expert in Biden and Obama administration.
Dafi and other scientists say that DOE reported the evidence of cherry-pix, incorrectly presented peer-review research, and ignored heavy consent that human activity was running dangerous warming. Many climate-based groups and researchers have published their own facts on the report. A list over 100 false or misleading claims Made by authors.
The CBS news reports reached the Department of Energy about the criticisms, but did not respond to our requests for our remarks.
Shamuel Korum/SIPA/Bloomberg via Getty Image 
“This DOE report is in service to a political goal, it is not reliable science,” said Ben Center, a climate researcher and a board member of the association of scientists. Center says Published work The DOE report had incorrectly presented and said that the authors would “turn the fundamentally” to reach the conclusion of many researchers, “said” would be used for a political purpose. “
Critic scientific community It is said that five authors of the panel are known for their contradictory ideas on climate science, often on obstacles with scientific consent on the causes of climate change.
“Those who were handled by the Energy Secretary of Trump Administration are groups of very small people who are known to disagree with that mountain. [scientific] Evidence, “Vicky Patton said, General Advocate in Environment Protection Fund.” Some of them have relations with the fossil fuel industry. ,
Accused of rewritten science
A former oil and gas executive, Energy Secretary Chris Right, have been vocal about their views on climate change, aligning with the findings of the report. In An OP-Ed Earlier this year, he called climate change “a by-product of progress”, and wrote, “I am ready to take a nominal negative business for this legacy of human progress.” He logic While climate change is real, it is not the biggest threat, and that expanding access to inexpensive, reliable energy should remain a priority.
Right has been transparent about how he sees climate research, CNN is Catalan Colins that administration is reviewing previous federal climate reports, including National climate evaluationAnd at the end of this year can provide “updates”, which motivates many people in the scientific community to fear that administration is to edit or censors significant research.
“It is important that science is allowed to speak for themselves and I am worried that this is not happening,” Duffy told CBS News.
The national climate assessment usually takes years to write and is written by hundreds of scientists.
Dafi says that Wright did not take care of the previous reports and hence has no right to review or revise them. Dafi says, “He can re -write the national climate assessment, as much as I can again write the great Gatsbi.”
Environment Defense Fund and Union of concerned scientists filed trial On Tuesday, in the federal court against the EPA and the Department of Energy, arguing that their works violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires transparency and balanced membership for government advisory panels. The suit alleges that the climate work group was secretly formed, its work was stopped from the public, and then its report was used by the EPA on a large scale, quoted 22 times, so that the danger could be justified. Organizations are asking a judge to block the use of the use of the government for compliance with transparency laws.
Asked about the trial, the EPA replied in an email, “As long as practice, the EPA does not comment on current or pending litigation,” and referred to CBS News to the Department of Energy. The Department of Energy did not respond to any of our requests for comments.
