In April of this year, at the height of the DOGE movement, President Donald Trump ditched 400 climate cultists who were slated to prepare the “National Climate Assessment.”
The howling from the elite media and eco-extremists was extraordinary.
The report, known as the National Climate Assessment, is a major publication produced every four years that summarizes the impacts of climate change in the United States, and it is congressionally mandated under the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The sixth edition is scheduled for publication in 2027 and preparations have been underway for months to meet that deadline.The National Climate Assessment is the basis for which federal, state, and local governments, as well as private companies, can prepare for climate change impacts, understand future projections of climate risk, as well as learn to adapt and mitigate those challenges.An email sent to participants from the deputy director of services of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a federal office that organizes the publication of the report read, “Thank you for your participation in the 6th National Climate Assessment … we are now releasing all current assessment participants from their roles.””The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists from their work on the nation’s most important climate change report,” Steven Hamburg, chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, said in a statement. “Refusing to study climate change won’t make it go away — or help us deal with stronger storms, droughts, floods, wildfires and hotter temperatures, or help us stop emitting the pollution that is making it worse.”
Instead of waiting until 2027, Energy Secretary Chris Wright commissioned a new climate assessment report that is entitled, “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a thoughtful, balanced work that reviews both the science and economics behind “climate change.” The document also references studies that suggest that the economic impact of carbon dioxide-induced warming may be less severe than promoted by the media and activist climate ‘scientists,” and notes that aggressive climate mitigation efforts could potentially do more harm than good. Finally, it notes that U.S. policy measures are expected to have minimal effects on global climate.
And the best part? The entire document will be authored by a five-member team, including: Dr. John Christy (climatologist), Dr. Judith Curry (climatologist), Dr. Steven Koonin (theoretical physicist), Dr. Ross McKitrick (economist) and Dr. Roy Spencer (meteorologist and climate scientist).
Curry, who has deemed “climate crisis” a pseudoscience and has long championed a comprehensive assessment of reliable data with an eye to reasonable risk assessments, presented a list of topics the report will address.
- Chapter 1 discusses the scientific rationale for considering CO2 as a pollutant (or not)
- Section 2.1 examines “global greening” including the benefits to agriculture
- Section 2.2 provides a concise assessment of ocean alkalinity and the so-called ocean acidification problem, including the recent rebound of coral reefs
- Section 3.2 provides clear justification against using extreme emissions scenarios in policy-relevant analyses
- Section 3.3 provides a comprehensive assessment of the urban heat island effect
- Chapter 4 assesses the uncertainties associated with climate sensitivity, with prominent discussion of Nic Lewis’ most recent work.
- Chapter 5 challenges climate models with observations; it is difficult to argue that global climate models are fit for any policy-relevant purpose
- Chapter 6 provides a comprehensive analysis of extreme weather in U.S., using the entire available data record back to 1900 (earlier where possible), with a context of natural climate variability
- Chapter 7 challenges the extreme projections of sea level rise, and emphasizes the importance of vertical land motion in local sea level changes
- Section 8.2 challenges conventional notions of attribution of global warming in terms of problems with the statistical analysis methods and inadequate assessment of natural climate variability
- Section 8.4 highlights the declining planetary albedo and cloud cover since 2015, including analysis of contributions from natural variability
- Section 8.6 assesses challenges and problems with attribution analyses of individual extreme events
- Chapter 9 on agriculture shows that increasing CO2 and warming is expected to be a net benefit to US agriculture
- Section 10.3 addresses mortality from temperature extremes (both heat and cold), including a section on mortality risks and energy costs
- Section 11.1 clarifies the unimportance of global warming in economic growth
- Section 11.2 assesses the deep uncertainties associated with estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon
- Chapter 12 concludes 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.
How good is the report? So good that the mainstream media is hysterically decrying it as….”disinformation.” This chestnut is from Politico.
Written by five scientists known for denying accepted climate science, the report is rife with disinformation, write Chelsea Harvey and Scott Waldman. It uses misleading and inaccurate statements to argue that climate science has overstated the risks of a warming planet while underestimating the societal benefits of burning fossil fuels….Climate scientists noted the DOE report’s publication comes after the Trump administration pulled the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment down from its official government webpage. That report involved scores of scientists, public comments and peer review from the National Academy of Sciences, said Phil Duffy, a physicist who studies climate change and served at the Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Biden administration.
The trouble is that the press, “experts,” and “government scientists” blew up all their credibility during the COVID pandemic. They are the ones offering disinformation.
Furthermore, the internet has a log of failed predictions that show the only climate crisis that is really occurring is a political one — manufactured by Democrats.
The new climate assessment will be valuable as a basis for making wise decisions that balance the nation’s energy and economic needs with valid and reasonable environmental concerns. This is one small win for science, and one big win for the American people.
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