Andrew Dessler

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Climate This report evaluates existing peer-reviewed literature and government data on climate impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and provides a critical assessment of the conventional narrative on climate c...

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How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

On The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather explains how the recent DOE climate report, written by climate contrarians, misrepresents his work.

www.theclimatebrink....

"they scoured my paper on the performance of climate models to find the one figure (deep in the supplementary materials) to reinforce the point they were trying to make, and never actually referred to the broader conclusion of the paper that old models had by-and-large performed quite well"

I predict you're going to see a lot more of this. Even a quick read shows that the report is sloppy and full of errors, many of which it is hard to believe were accidental.

Here's an example:

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

On The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather explains how the recent DOE climate report, written by climate contrarians, misrepresents his work.

www.theclimatebrink....

The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate » Yale Climate Connections An audacious effort to destroy climate regulations is likely headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court.

I read EPA’s 302-page proposal to nuke the endangered endangerment finding so that you don’t have to, and wrote about what the insanity all means for @climateconnections.bsky.social. Thanks to @gregdotson.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social for the input. Article & 🧵(1/14):

interesting. @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social: how do you feel about what they said w.r.t. your work?

thanks!

I can't find the EPA Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding document. The link seems to be dead. Does anyone know of a different link/archive?
www.epa.gov/system/files...

given everything else, that IS a shocking lineup

Yup, very convenient for her to go to SJS reunions.

Corp. for Public Broadcasting shuts down after federal funding cuts The Corp. for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal dollars to NPR and PBS stations, has long been a target of Republicans.

A sad day for America. www.latimes.com/entertainmen... via @megjames.bsky.social

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's associate, moved to federal prison in Texas Ghislaine Maxwell has been serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted in 2021​ for her role in helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and abuse underage girls.

www.cbsnews.com/news/ghislai...

Austin is on the way out as TX most desirable city!

Many of the rich and famous are instead moving to Bryan, TX. Elizabeth Holmes moved first, and she has convinced other rich people like Ghislaine Maxwell to join her here.

the quote is taken out of context
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OK, @climateofgavin.bsky.social also noticed this.
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Hmmm. This use of the paper doesn't seem entirely above board.

Thanks to Chris O'Dell (one of the people in the fake citation) for sending this to me.

While maxMEP solutions in general cannot provide a definite answer to the problem, these model results strengthen the possibility that the trajectory of the observed trend reflects the response to increasing GHG loading in the atmosphere.

Here's the full sentence from the paper: "While maxMEP solutions in general cannot provide a definite answer to the problem, these model results strengthen the possibility that the trajectory of the observed trend reflects the response to increasing GHG loading in the atmosphere."

A similar argument was recently made by Lee et al. (2024), who concluded that “the trajectory of the observed trend reflects the response to increasing GHG loading in the atmosphere”; in other words, GHG warming should lead to a future strengthening rather than a weakening of the temperature gradient

But there's more. In the DOE document, they cite the paper in this sentence: 'A similar argument was recently made by Lee et al. (2024), who concluded that “the trajectory of the observed trend reflects the response to increasing GHG loading in the atmosphere"'

There is a paper in another journal, with another set of authors, and a different DOI that I think they were intending to cite: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Lee, S., Byrne, M. P., Loikith, P. C., & O’Dell, C. W. (2024). Zonal contrasts of the tropical Pacific climate predicted by a global constraint. Climate Dynamics, 62(1–2), 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06741-7

Lots of interesting stuff buried in the DOE report.

For example, here's a reference that doesn't exist:

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US says CO2 emissions aren’t harmful – climate science shows otherwise The Trump administration is attempting to argue that greenhouses gases don’t endanger people to reverse regulations limiting these harmful emissions – climate scientists are pushing back

The Trump administration is attempting to end the US government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by arguing they do not pose a danger to people. But climate scientists and lawyers say this argument is...um...weak.🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

Anatomy of a heat wave sunny days aren't all they're cracked up to be

when it's hot outside, I feel the need to continually repost an old post of mine about the meteorology of heat waves
www.theclimatebrink....

Pass this on. I've signed up.

This is what this is about:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/c...

Exactly what I was hoping folks would do… sign up if you have expertise!

🚨 Names of scientists willing to help respond to the DOE climate report linked below are being collected.

Report: www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

If you would like to help, fill out the form linked in the quoted post below. 🧪

That’s a good idea, thanks!

Want to help refute the nonsense that came out of the DoE yesterday? Sign up here (both US-based and international experts welcomed).