Zinke questions methodology of federal climate report

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday cast doubt on the methodology of the federal government’s major climate change report released last week.

Zinke accused the authors — about 300 scientists from 13 agencies, like the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and outside the government — of using only worst-case scenarios in the report, which concluded, among other things, that climate change could cost the United States economy billions of dollars annually by 2100.

“We’re looking at the report. And there’s some concern within the USGS ... that’s our nation’s top scientific body,” he said on KCRA, an NBC affiliate in Sacramento, Calif.

“It appears they took the worst scenarios and they built predictions on that,” he said. “It should be more probability, but we’re looking at it.”

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/418450-zinke-questions-methodology-of-federal-climate-report

[Jim__]

1. One of the climate scientists responded.

From the article:

But at least one key researcher involved in the extensive process of preparing the findings has pushed back on that notion.

“I wrote the climate scenarios chapter myself so I can confirm it considers ALL scenarios, from those where we go carbon negative before end of century to those where carbon emissions continue to rise. What WH says is demonstrably false,” Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, tweeted Friday.

The White House got it wrong - shocking!

[Hassler]

2. Has the High Plains Grifter paid back the money he stole from us?

[safeinOhio]

3. Peer review Zinke

Must have some powerful statistics.

[Xipe Totec]

4. With a BS in geology. And I have nothing against geologists,

But that's not his main area of knowledge.

And a BS qualifies you to shut up and listen on the subject. Not to pontificate.

[shanny]

5. Mr claims-to-be-a-geologist sez what?

[hatrack]

6. USGS is America's top scientific body?

Well, maybe for geologists . . . .

[Haggis for Breakfast]

7. And what EXACTLY qualifies him to question any of the scientists' methodology ?