The outrage within the American scientific community has not subsided. Since the US Department of Energy (DOE) published a report entitled "A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the US Climate" on July 29, many researchers have condemned it, denouncing the proliferation of errors, omissions and falsifications strewn throughout the document's 150 pages.

The report was commissioned by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a former executive in the shale gas industry, in March. It aims to deny or downplay the risks climate change poses to the United States. "Climate change is a challenge – not a catastrophe," wrote Wright, in the report's introduction. According to information Le Monde was able to acquire, the climate science community is preparing a collective rebuttal of the document, which, in theory, is still currently open for comments.

The report was published only hours after Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced his plan to rescind the "Endangerment Finding," which the EPA established in 2009, following a US Supreme Court ruling that ordered the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. The Endangerment Finding is a body of scientific facts describing the risks global warming represents for the American population. It forms the legal basis for the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

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