Controversial climate report from Trump team galvanizes scientists into action
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In this Podcast Extra, we discuss a report released by the US Department of Energy, which concluded that global warming is “less damaging economically than commonly believed”. However, many researchers say that the report misrepresents decades of climate science.
We discuss how scientists are trying to coordinate a unified response amidst concerns that this report will be used in attempts to repeal a 2009 government ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public welfare.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02658-9
This story originally appeared on: Nature - Author:Benjamin Thompson
