Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research
A new Trump administration report which attempts to justify a mass rollback of environmental regulations is chock-full of climate misinformation, experts say.
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to undo the 2009 “endangerment finding”, which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources. Hours later, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a 150-page report defending the proposal, claiming scientific concern about the climate crisis is overblown.
“Climate change is a challenge – not a catastrophe,” wrote the energy secretary, Chris Wright, in the report’s introduction.
Esteemed climate scientist Michael Mann said the report was akin to the result he would expect “if you took a chat bot and you trained it on the top 10 fossil fuel industry-funded climate denier websites”.
It would be shocking if it were anything else at this point
Esteemed climate scientist Michael Mann said the report was akin to the result he would expect “if you took a chat bot and you trained it on the top 10 fossil fuel industry-funded climate denier websites”.
Yeah, because they probably did exactly this
Whaaat!? You think they’d go through all that extra work? They just ask Grok, since they “luckily” have free access to it.
Inb4 someone throws a tantrum over “slam”.
Commentor blasts the slam critics.
Slam critics clap back at commenter
DOE gives salvation to “beloved” oil companies
When something comes out of an admin full of shit, don’t be surprised when it’s shit.
Human beings don’t write like this — but AI does.
So not only are they denying the ruin that their policies have wrought, but they’re also actively fueling it because they can’t be bothered to vomit their own words onto a page. I hate it here.
Nah, this isn’t AI - it’s the same recycled fossil fuel industry talking points they’ve been using for decades, just repackaged by the Heritage Foundation folks who’ve taken over key positions at the EPA.
You’re not wrong — but I’m still pretty sure it was AI generated, repacking that tired old fossil fuel propaganda while using more power than my whole town will today.
It’s gonna take them a long time to make everyone as dumb as they are.
Wheeeeee.
