National Academies go preposterous on CO2
By
David Wojick
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September 23rd, 2025
You would think the National Academy of Sciences understands science, but you would be wrong. Their president just approved a report whose conclusion is scientifically impossible!
The report is jointly from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Titled “Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare,” this squirrelly tome is a formal comment on EPA’s proposed repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding. It is also a reply to the Energy Department’s recent report supporting this repeal. In both reports, the focus is the adverse effects, if any, of our CO2 emissions.
The NASEM report’s preposterous conclusion is most clearly stated in the last paragraph of its lengthy summary, to wit: “In summary, the committee concludes that the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE.” (emphasis added)
Beyond scientific dispute? This fundamental claim is wildly false on two levels to the point of absurdity.
https://www.cfact.org/2025/09/23/national-academies-go-preposterous-on-co2/