Zinke questions methodology of federal climate report [View all]

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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