[Wonder Warthog]

"I have two chemist buddies that I went through undergraduate school with that work for the EPA. They are conservative types, honest to a fault about their chemical analysis work."

The problem is that it isn't those kinds of folks who produce this stuff. It is mid-level bureaucrats. The EPA, far more than almost any other Federal department, is infested with liberal eco-nuts. Besides which, the EPA is NOT qualified to undertake this kind of analysis--for an honest appraisal, you need to talk to geophysicists and geochemists, not "pollution control" chemists.

[VOA]

...for an honest appraisal, you need to talk to geophysicists and geochemists,
not "pollution control" chemists

Agreed. My chemist buddies would be honest that they are studs in pesticide analysis
by gas chromatography-mass spec or LC-MS, but would readily admit long term climate
prediction is beyond their expertise.
I suspect they'd say (in private)about 99% of the EPA can't tell us where the weather is going.