"Mockery of science": Energy Department climate report riddled with errors

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/02/doe-climate-energy-environment-climate-science

Driving the news: Texas A&M's Andrew Dessler and Rutgers' Robert Kopp organized the response.

  • It gets into the "greening" and agricultural benefits of higher CO2 levels; disputes whether climate change is making hurricanes more intense; and disagrees with many scientists on the potential lower bound of expected warming from doubling CO2 concentrations, among many divides.
  • "When I read the DOE report, I saw a document that does not respect science," he tells Axios via email. "Instead, I saw a document that's a mockery of science."

Axios is short and light on ads, so the whole thing's worth a read.

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HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (5 replies)
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Oof, is there a signup wall or paywall? One doesn't show up for me.

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I hit a 'soft' subscription page (email only) so I put up the archive link.

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

On mobile?

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yup. Could be the VPN I'm using, or the way I've got my browsers set up.

WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I got it, too, on mobile. No VPN

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

Those aren't errors, they're deliberate lies.