DOE Climate Report Triggers ‘Settled Science’ Tantrum From Alarmist Critics
Green panties in a bunch: The fit about the Energy Dept. report is a glorious spectacle of projection.
by Irina Slav September 04, 2025, 10:58 AM
Once upon a time, or more specifically in July this year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a report titled “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” [emphasis, links added]
The report, unsurprisingly to many, concluded that greenhouse gas emissions were not the death sentence we have been repeatedly told they were, and that:
“Both models and experience suggest that CO2-induced warming might be less damaging economically than commonly believed, and excessively aggressive mitigation policies could prove more detrimental than beneficial.”
The report’s conclusions unleashed, pardon the word, a massive fit among the transition crowd, with two environmental organizations — the Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists — promptly filing a lawsuit against the (DOE), alleging the authors of the report “worked in secret” and equally secretly shared their findings with the EPA to provide it with grounds to rescind the so-called Endangerment Finding, which basically says that CO2 is a pollutant, which it’s not, as every 4th grader with a good science teacher knows.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/doe-climate-report-settled-science-tantrum/
