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Title: Dozens of Scientists Find Errors in a New Energy Department Climate
Report
Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1...
A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent
U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of
errors and misrepresenting climate science. NPR: The group of climate
scientists found several examples where the DOE authors cherry-picked or
misrepresented climate science in the agency's report. For instance, in the
DOE report the authors claim that rising carbon dioxide can be a "net
benefit" to U.S. agriculture, neglecting to mention the negative impacts of
more heat and climate-change fueled extreme weather events on crops. The DOE
report also states that there is no evidence of more intense "meteorological"
drought in the U.S. or globally, referring to droughts that involve low
rainfall. But the dozens of climate scientists point out that this is
misleading, because higher temperatures and more evaporation -- not just low
rainfall -- can lead to and exacerbate droughts. They say that there are, in
fact, many studies showing how climate change has exacerbated droughts.
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