Skeptical Science New Research for Week #36 2026

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Department of Energy (DOE) made the key claim that the stratosphere has warmed since 2000, contrary to model projections and inconsistent with the expected anthropogenic fingerprint.

The DOE report provided no references or data to support this claim.

The observed tropical TLS trends shown in the unpublished DOE figure are incorrect.

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Department of Energy (DOE) made the key claim that the stratosphere has warmed since 2000, contrary to model projections and inconsistent with the expected anthropogenic fingerprint. The observed tropical TLS trends shown in the unpublished DOE figure are incorrect. An earlier rebuttal of the DOE "no human fingerprint" claim considered global-mean temperature changes only and did not perform a pattern-based fingerprint study.

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The DOE report provided no references or data to support this claim.
When the correct observational data sets are used, model tropical TLS trends are consistent with satellite observations, and a model-predicted anthropogenic fingerprint is identifiable with high confidence...
Unless corrected or retracted, the DOE report will continue to misinform policymakers and the public about the reality of human effects on climate.
Climate disinformation and moral distortion, Hopster & Martini, Environmental Politics Disinformation is commonly understood as the distortion, omission or framing of facts, in the interest of deceiving.

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