A prominent climate researcher has published new analysis disputing a 2025 US Department of Energy report that cited his work while reaching the opposite conclusion about human influence on global temperatures.
Prof Benjamin Santer of the University of East Anglia and colleagues released a peer-reviewed paper this week in AGU Advances. It reaffirms satellite evidence of a human "fingerprint" on climate through tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling.
The DOE report from July 2025 was issued alongside an EPA proposal to overturn the 2009 endangerment finding on greenhouse gases. It was later cited 16 times in that proposal.
Santer stated the DOE claims are "factually incorrect" and that the report remains available on the DOE website despite the authoring team being dissolved in early September after a lawsuit.
The new paper argues the DOE document should not support legal decisions on climate regulations.
