Another Tale of Climate Change Bias

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 6, 2025 12:12 pm ET | Steven E. Koonin

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The government should stop funding the National Academies’ climate studies until they shed the political conformity.

The climate fearful attending Climate Week last month in New York City no doubt shuddered when discussing a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report on the effect of greenhouse-gas emissions. Taking a cue from the Brothers Grimm, it depicts dire consequences for the nation’s climate, health and welfare.

The academies’ study—which was put together in less than two months—was obviously meant to bolster the scientific basis for the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten the nation’s well-being. The study therefore plays down or ignores evidence undermining that conclusion. This agenda is evident from the first sentence of the preface, which invokes the terrible flood of the Guadalupe River in Texas in July. The report doesn’t mention that similar events have been recorded since the late 19th century and show no detectable trend to the present, even as emissions have soared.

Assessments of climate science often minimize, or even ignore, natural variability to make recent climate trends or weather events seem unusual and hence a consequence of greenhouse-gas emissions. The National Academies’ report is no exception. It describes a recent acceleration of global sea-level rise observed by satellites without mentioning a comparable acceleration during the 1930s. There are similar failures in the report’s coverage of U.S. heat waves (which aren’t more common in recent decades than they were in the decades around 1900) and of North Atlantic hurricanes (which show no long-term trends in frequency or intensity).

The report deceptively shapes its discussion of the models used to project climate changes. The writers gush about how the models are improving. But they give no quantitative sense...

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[BFW]

Wow flawed, biased and just plane wrong but they are getting better...............are they showing the last twenty or so points of no return?

Has al 'i invented the internets' gore blessed this new bit of climate soothsaying???

How dare they not include greta t......

[zeestephen]

Which President signed on for the creation of the first National Academy of Science?

Abraham Lincoln!