Chris Wright Touts Energy Department Report’s Misleading Claims

While promoting his agency’s recently released climate report, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said that climate change is not making extreme weather more intense and more common.

That’s counter to authoritative climate science research. His statements come amid a push by the Trump administration to eliminate climate programs and scientist positions and to reduce access to past US-produced scientific reports, while issuing new material that goes against mainstream findings.

“There is now a large body of scientific research documenting that global warming has intensified multiple types of extreme weather events,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford University.

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