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worldwide. This also means there is no climate related risk from the continued use of fossil fuels and increasing CO2. And provides no reliable scientific evidence for the proposed rule.

J. Climate Science is Awash with Manipulated Data, Which Provides No Reliable Scientific Evidence to Support the Proposed Rule

As noted at the outset by Prof. Lindzen, “Misrepresentation, exaggeration, cherry picking, or outright lying pretty much covers all the so-called evidence” marshalled in support of the theory of imminent catastrophic global warming caused by fossil fuels and CO2. One of us (Lindzen) in the article “Straight Talk About Climate Change” Acad. Quest. (2017), details how an “accumulation of false and/or misleading claims” is what really underlies the so-called “’overwhelming evidence’ of forthcoming catastrophe.” Lindzen states that he is “surprised that anyone who could get away with such sophistry and downright dishonesty,” covering: • the hottest years on record • 97% of scientists agree • extreme weather

• sea level rise

• Arctic sea rise

• polar bears • ocean acidification

• death of coral reefs

• global warming as the cause of everything For example, Wallace and others elaborate on how over the last several decades, NASA and NOAA have been fabricating temperature data to argue that that rising CO2 levels have led to the hottest years on record.15 Typical NASA and NOAA alarmist temperature reports state: • “2015 is Earth's warmest year by widest margin ... since record keeping began in 1880.” NOAA Global Summary Information December 2015 (Jan. 2016) • “2019 was 2d hottest year on record for Earth say NOAA, NASA, just behind 2016.” NOAA Press Release (Jan. 15, 2020). The chart below graphically illustrates the difference between credible temperature data, in blue, and NOAA and NASA fabrication of the temperature data, in red:

15 Wallace at al, “On the Validity of NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU Global Average Surface Temperature Data and the Validity of EPA’s CO2 Endangerment Finding” (June 2017), p. 30.