The authors of the DOE report, five of the world’s most distinguished and academically rigorous researchers of climate issues, were immediately branded as the “Trump Team.”This is a deliberately dishonest tactic. The strategy is clear: assemble a gaggle of academics, label them “climate experts” and use the sheer number to create an illusion of overwhelming scientific consensus against the DOE report. Yet the announcement was trumpeted as if the nation’s top climate experts were mobilized. That’s why the DOE report – noting forecasting uncertainty, adaptation possibilities and economic trade-offs – is so threatening. I’d encourage you to read the DOE report for yourself or at least countervailing opinions of it.