A key climate science report that measures how climate change exacerbates disasters is being actively discredited by the fossil fuel industry.

“Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report” by Corbin Hiar, Lesley Clark & Chelsea Harvey for @politico: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/fossil-fuels-national-academies-climate-science-00897237

Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report. An emerging field of research that can measure how much climate change has worsened individual disasters is under attack by friends of the fossil fuel industry. Billions of dollars are at stake. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/fossil-fuels-national-academies-climate-science-00897237

Inside the campaign to discredit a key #climate #science report An emerging field of research that can measure how much #climatechange has worsened individual disasters is under attack by friends of the #fossilfuel industry. Billions of dollars are at stake. The conservative offensive puts crosshairs on a forthcoming report from the #NationalAcademiesOfSciences that will examine research into the ways corporate climate pollution is intensifying #naturaldisasters. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/fossil-fuels-national-academies-climate-science-00897237

"Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/fossil-fuels-national-academies-climate-science-00897237 "#Oil industry allies are quietly targeting a field of #climate research that could cost #fossilfuel companies billions of dollars. In the crosshairs is a forthcoming report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [#NASEM] that will examine research into the ways corporate climate pollution is intensifying natural disasters…The heightened scrutiny…involves a secretive opposition research group scouring scientists’ emails." #Censorship #DefendResearch #Harassment #USPol #USPolitics