{"id":26147,"date":"2025-08-14T17:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=26147"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:33:42","slug":"critiques-of-the-critical-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2025\/08\/critiques-of-the-critical-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Critiques of the &#8216;Critical Review&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"26147\">\n\n<p>The first somewhat comprehensive reviews of the DOE critical review are now coming online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>First out of the gate is a nice <a href=\"https:\/\/interactive.carbonbrief.org\/doe-factcheck\/index.html\" title=\"interactive from CarbonBrief\">interactive from CarbonBrief<\/a> based on direct input from scientists whose papers were cited, sometimes in misleading or false ways. They have a nice color-coding for which is which. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/interactive.carbonbrief.org\/doe-factcheck\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/\/image-10-600x428.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26148 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/428;width:680px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/image-10-600x428.png 600w, https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/image-10-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/image-10-150x107.png 150w, https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/image-10-1536x1095.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/image-10-2048x1461.png 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There is a complementary effort from a group led by Andrew Dessler (sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfYVO6Crem-Wk0kj1rikfeSLRPQ6ZjDDjDr_aCMiBpTym34CA\/viewform\" title=\"here\">here<\/a> to get notifications of updates). We&#8217;ll add the links here when it is released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the DOE is being <a href=\"https:\/\/library.edf.org\/AssetLink\/0kdlw6oq5v8hsvj152eqx01b0qn74uuq.pdf\" title=\"sued by EDF and and UCS\">sued by EDF and UCS<\/a> on procedural grounds (turns out that there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsa.gov\/policy-regulations\/policy\/federal-advisory-committee-management\/legislation-and-regulations\/federal-advisory-committee-act\" title=\"actual laws\">actual laws<\/a> about how you are supposed to get unbiased expert advice into government rulemaking &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/4-laws-that-could-stymie-the-trump-epas-plan-to-rescind-the-endangerment-finding-central-to-us-climate-policies-262952\" title=\"who knew\">who knew<\/a>?!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are multiple threads on Bluesky, or on blogs that address more specific points &#8211; for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theclimatebrink.com\/p\/how-the-doe-and-epa-used-and-misused\" title=\"Zeke Hausfather makes some salient points\">Zeke Hausfather makes some salient points<\/a> on the misuse of his work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Importantly, the National Academies are setting up <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/07082025\/national-academies-will-review-endangerment-finding-science\/\" title=\"a fast track assessment\">a fast track assessment<\/a> process to provide input into the EPA proposed ruling (<a href=\"https:\/\/survey.alchemer.com\/s3\/8416653\/Request-for-Information-Anthropogenic-Greenhouse-Gases-and-US-Climate-Evidence-and-Impacts\" title=\"deadline August 27th\">deadline is August 27th<\/a> for submissions). This has the potential to be the most relevant effort, and so hopefully mostly everything will be funneled through this as well as the specific process that DOE has initiated for it&#8217;s report (which has no statutory standing on it&#8217;s own).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update Aug 29:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ametsoc.org\/ams\/about-ams\/ams-statements\/statements-of-the-ams-in-force\/the-practice-and-assessment-of-science-five-foundational-flaws-in-the-department-of-energys-2025-climate-report\/?utm_source=Subscribers&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletter&amp;_zs=Lpghc1&amp;_zl=Lh4MA\" title=\"\">A strong statement on the foundational problems<\/a> in the DOE report from the Executive Committee of the American Meteorological Society.<\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 26147 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first somewhat comprehensive reviews of the DOE critical review are now coming online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,5,1,35,75,3,16,9,161,24,34],"tags":[54,180,179,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-26147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-climate-impacts","8":"category-climate-modelling","9":"category-climate-science","10":"category-communicating-climate","11":"category-featured-story","12":"category-greenhouse-gases","13":"category-in-the-news","14":"category-instrumental-record","15":"category-model-comp","16":"category-reporting-on-climate","17":"category-skeptics","18":"tag-climate-change","19":"tag-doe","20":"tag-endangerment-finding","21":"tag-epa","22":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26171,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147\/revisions\/26171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}