‘Fraudulent, Biased And Misleading’: Trump Rails Against NGO After It Put Out Bezos-Backed Climate Report
President Donald Trump ordered an examination into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) following the release of a climate change report that he and critics claimed was biased and politically motivated. The report promoted “attribution” research often used in climate lawsuits against energy companies. Trump argued that NAS’ manuals influenced court rulings and created financial losses, asserting they are discredited and fueled by political bias. critics, including the Wall Street Journal editorial board, accused the report of being part of a political effort to justify goverment policies on climate issues, funded partially by the Bezos Earth fund. Trump called for a review of NAS’s conduct, labeling their manuals as fraudulent and misleading, and ordered measures to prevent taxpayer funding of what he described as climate fraud. The White house did not instantly comment on the matter.
President Donald Trump ordered an investigation to review a nongovernmental organization that recently released a heavily scrutinized climate change report.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a report Thursday urging the adoption of a type of “attribution” research favored by climate activists that is frequently invoked in liability litigation against energy companies. The president wrote in a late Sunday post to that NAS’ climate manuals were politically biased and improperly shaped rulings in major climate lawsuits.
The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology argued the report presents a conflict of interest because attorneys involved in climate litigation helped establish the scientific standards used by NAS.
“The National Academy of Sciences has historically published analytical Scientific Manuals expressly for our Federal Judiciary,” Trump said in the post. “These bogus Manuals were used by Judges to decide massive ‘Climate Change’ Cases, and have created huge losses across our Country. These Manuals have been totally DISCREDITED. Our Nation’s Federal Judges deserve Facts and Science, not Political Fraud and False Science on Climate.”
The Wall Street Journal editorial board also slammed the more-than-250-page report, funded in part by the Bezos Earth Fund, in Sunday op-ed titled, “A Climate Coup at the National Academies of Science.”
“The report also says this research could help ‘inform’ policies like a law in Vermont, which empowers the government to assess the ‘financial impact on the state of fossil fuel related–greenhouse gas pollution’ and ‘demand payments from fossil fuel companies to fund adaptation projects,’” the board wrote. “The point is to put a scientific gloss on a coercive exercise of government power.”
The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
“Of course, the Academy has been run by Radical Left Dumocrats who, it turns out, published fraudulent, biased, and misleading Manuals on Climate Change,” Trump’s post added.
“With this TRUTH, I hereby order Federal Suspension and Debarment Officials to review this conduct. Our Taxpayers should not be funding Climate Fraud, and Judges should never have relied upon it,” the president concluded.
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