(26 Aug 2025)
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New York – 14 August 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press:
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“Since 2009, the federal government has said climate change puts Americans and their health in danger. But in July, the Trump administration started to reverse that with two documents. This is key to U.S. policy regulating gasses that trap heat. So at the AP, we sent hundreds of emails to scientists, including about 200 of them, whose work was referenced in the report. We got 62 responses. 52 were negative. Seven were positive. 15 different scientists said their work had been misused or taken out of context, and a handful of others said it had been accurate.”
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ARCHIVE: Point Pleasant, West Virginia – 14 April 2025
2. Wide of Gavin Power Plant operating near home
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ARCHIVE: Cheshire, Ohio – 14 April 2025
3. Aerial of the Gavin Power Plant
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ARCHIVE: Qoornoq Island, Greenland – 18 February 2025
4. Various aerial shots of a large iceberg
5. Various aerial shots of ice-sheets floating
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New York – 14 August 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“In one case, the Department of Energy said Arctic sea ice has shrunk only 5% since 1980. It linked to a chart, but that chart showed data from Antarctica, the South Pole. The authors said they’ll fix it.”
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ARCHIVE: Los Padres National Forest – 4 August 2025
7. Mid of a wildfire
8. Mid of firefighters in front of a wildfire
9. Wide of a plane putting out wildfires
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New York – 14 August 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press: ++ PARTIALLY COVERED++
“The reports use data for wildfires that show a graph that’s saying wildfires aren’t getting much worse. But on the page before, they said the same data they used was unreliable. We asked them to give a grade like a professor gives an undergrad. 19 of the 41 grades that we got were F. One scientist gave it a grade of R for ridiculous. Scientists said the reports were biased, misinterpreted the science, cherry-picked the data, and at times were just plain wrong.”
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ARCHIVE: Ingram, Texas – 6 July 2025
11. Aerial shot showing damage along the Guadalupe River
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ARCHIVE: Hunt, Texas – 6 July 2025
12. Various of people in a kayak passing submerged car by river
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ARCHIVE: Ingram, Texas – 6 July 2025
13. Aerial shot of the flooded Guadalupe River
STORYLINE:
Two key reports from the Trump administration aimed at revoking the longstanding finding that climate change is dangerous were filled with errors, bias and distortions, according to dozens of scientists surveyed by The Associated Press.
One of the reports argues that sea ice decline in the Arctic has been small but uses data from the Antarctic to make the point. It uses a French-focused study on climate-related crop losses for a claim about the U.S. – a generalization the author said didn’t work because of significant differences in climate and agriculture. And after saying decades-old wildfire statistics aren’t reliable, it reproduces them in a graphic anyway that makes it appear they were worse a century ago than more recently.
In 15 cases, scientists whose work was cited said it was misused, misinterpreted or taken out of context.
Environmental groups are already challenging the proposed revocation in court.
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