A government watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Biden administration over its use of a dataset frequently used to push its climate agenda.
The billion-dollar disasters data - cited frequently by the Biden administration to insinuate that climate change is intensifying and justify sweeping green policies - is based on opaque data derived from questionable accounting practices, PPT alleges in the complaint.
While NOAA states that it develops its BDD data from more than a dozen sources, the agency does not disclose those sources for specific events or show how it calculates loss estimates from those sources, PPT's complaint alleges.
Further, the complaint alleges that BDD events are quietly added and removed from the dataset without explanation, citing Roger Pielke Jr., a former academic who believes climate change to be a real threat but opposes politicized science.
The Biden administration has frequently cited the BDD dataset to substantiate its massive climate agenda.
The BDD statistics are also referenced Fifth National Climate Assessment, the Biden administration's landmark climate report that is intended to provide the most sound scientific basis for lawmakers and officials to craft climate policy.
NOAA asserted that the increasing frequency of BDD events is a sign of intensifying climate change in a January press release and blog post summarizing 2023, and then defended the use of the dataset in subsequent communications with the DCNF. "Sensational climate claims made without proper scientific basis and spread by government officials threaten the public's trust in its scientific officials and undermines the government's mission of stewarding the environment," PPT's complaint states.
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