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Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will be in Indianapolis today (29 July 2025) to announce major climate regulation changes…so, stay tuned!
UPDATE: E&E News (by Politico) provides an unusually neutral assessment of what will be announced: https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-seeks-to-limit-its-power-to-curb-climate-pollution/
Here’s video of the announcement. I’m one of the 5 scientists chosen to write the DOE report for Sec. Wright which provided the scientific basis for EPA Administrator Zeldin’s decision.
None of us asked to write this report had any insider knowledge of what Zeldin would decide… we were simply asked to write a report of what we believed the threat of increasing CO2 posed to the U.S. That report will be posted very soon (if it hasn’t already). I will do a separate post on that.
Announcing a proposal to overturn the endangerment finding.
Been waiting for this.
There will be a public comment period accompanied by legal battles after the final draft proposal is issued.
Rgrds.
The problem with the legal system is that the judges do not understand science. They believe “consensus” is science. So the Administration will have to appoint enough knowledgeable people to form a new “consensus” based on reality.
Dr Spencer.
The following quote from your “UPDATE: E&E News (by Politico)” tells me that secretary Wright doesn’t want this fight to be about the science supporting the finding.
“They’ll have to make a new finding to say that greenhouse gases don’t contribute to dangerous air pollution,” she said. “Otherwise, it won’t survive judicial review.”
Greenhouse gases are not dangerous air pollutants. Carbon dioxide and water vapor are essential for life on Earth. The absence of either of these components means the death of plants.
A weak La Niña is to be expected in November.
It will be a normal winter in the US with periodic waves of Arctic air (stratospheric intrusions) falling on the Midwest.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/cdas-sflux_ssta_global_1.png
A similar winter is now in southern Australia and South Africa.
La Nina is strong right now.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/nino34.png
And if this is significant then so is the future.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/nino12.png
Negative subsurface temperature anomalies dominated from the start of the period through the beginning
of April 2025. The negative anomalies reached a minimum in December 2024. In February and March
2025, the negative anomalies significantly weakened. Weak positive anomalies were present from midApril through early July. Since then, negative anomalies have strengthened. https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_update/heat-last-year.gif
Usually 1.2 dictates the future of 3.4.
That is not a La Nina, just short term weather.
It is about time. This is one agency that needs to be limited.
Why not ask for a report from the National Academy of Sciences, which is normally tasked with informing policy makers on science and technology, as opposed to a handful of scientists who represent a tiny minority viewpoint?
One of our authors, Steve Koonin, has some strong opinions on the NAS after leading one of their committees for years. And maybe you should read the report before assuming we present a minority viewpoint… much of what we present is from other researchers and the IPCC itself.
You should read the report. It well written and very well sourced.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/DOE_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_GHG_Emissions_on_the_US_Climate_July_2025.pdf
You should read the report. It is well written and very well sourced.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/DOE_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_GHG_Emissions_on_the_US_Climate_July_2025.pdf
This may show what this blog will show for this month.
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