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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
This report was introduced on the same day that the EPA announced it would seek to roll back the endangerment finding, a crucial 2009 ruling that provides the scientific and legal basis for the agency to regulate greenhouse gasses under the Clean Air Act. Ward, however, told WIRED in an emailed statement that her experiments were conducted under “highly controlled growth conditions” to create a “mechanistic understanding” of CO 2, and that climate change can cause a host of impacts on plants not accounted for in her study. Richard Seager, a research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, coauthored a paper cited in the DOE report on the discrepancy between what climate models predict and what is actually being measured when it comes to sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
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