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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Dharna Noor

Scientists rush to bolster climate finding Trump administration aims to undo

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Dr Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences, speaks in Washington DC, on 14 November 2024. Photograph: Allison Robbert/AFP/Getty Images

Veteran climate scientists are organizing a coordinated public comment to a US Department of Energy (DOE) report that cast doubt on the scientific consensus on the climate crisis.

The report, published late last month, claimed concerns about planet-warming fossil fuels are overblown, sparking widespread concern from scientists who said it was full of climate misinformation; it was an attempt to support a proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to undo the “endangerment finding”, which forms the legal basis of virtually all US climate regulations.

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