Daily Archives: August 12, 2025

The Trump Administration continues to double down on its naked denialism of the nature of, and threat posed by, human-induced changes to the global climate. 

Late last month the Department of Energy released a 151-page report entitled “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.”  This report was commissioned this spring and work on it was conducted from early April until late May with a May 28 deadline to deliver a draft.  It was authored by 5 scientists who share a deep skepticism regarding the broad scientific consensus that industrialization has played a leading role in altering the chemical composition of our atmosphere in such a way as to encourage global warming, ocean acidification, increased wildfire threat and an increased risk of high impact weather systems in all seasons. Continue reading →