Overview

• Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNN he will review and update past National Climate Assessment reports after they were removed from federal websites.
• The Department of Energy said its new report downplaying warming’s economic costs will undergo wider peer review with public comments open through September 2.
• Hundreds of scientists are coordinating formal rebuttals and independent peer-review projects to defend the credibility of congressionally mandated climate assessments.
• Prominent researchers such as Michael Mann and Zeke Hausfather have condemned the planned revisions as an unprecedented political interference in established scientific findings.
• The review announcement follows earlier steps to dismiss over 400 assessment contributors and to move toward revoking the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding underpinning greenhouse-gas regulations.