Similarly, the tobacco industry once proceeded in order to discredit evidence of the harmfulness of nicotine, according to the 440-page response of the US climate experts. The Trump government’s climate report “made a parody out of science,” said one of the co-authors of the reply, the climate scientist Andrew Dessler from Texas A&M University. Among other things, he is based on “on ideas that have long been rejected, supported by incorrect depictions of scientific knowledge, the omission of important facts”.
The report makes it clear “that the Ministry of Energy has no interest in interacting with the scientific community,” emphasized Dessler.
The US government’s 150-page report was published on the website of the Energy Ministry at the end of July to underpin Trump’s climate policy. Among other things, it is said that extreme weather events that are due to human emissions do not cause the temperatures in the United States and that higher carbon dioxide values would increase agricultural productivity.
“Contrary to the claims of the authors, the signal of the global warming caused by humans can clearly be recognized in the records of all-time highest and low temperatures above the continental united states and worldwide,” wrote the scientists in their response published on Tuesday.
The right-wing populist Trump denies man-made climate change and wants to massively expand oil and gas production in the USA. He had already left the USA from the Paris Climate Agreement on his first day in January. He also explained the exit in his first term.
