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New Landmark National Academies Report Affirms the Science Behind Holding Polluters Accountable for the Climate Crisis 96%
By Newswire editor98%
7/16/2026, 6:59:51 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Indoctrination, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 51.4% saturation with 89 hits. Analysis detected 711 faulty-reasoning hits from 173 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 93.4% and a BS Rank of 96% (768 of 16,793 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.40% of the article peer group.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) today published an authoritative report, Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts, that validates the science connecting individual weather disasters and their lethal societal impacts directly to human-caused fossil fuel pollution.
In response, Stephanie Brancaforte, climate accountability campaign director with Public Citizen’s Climate Program, issued the following statement:
“For decades, Big Oil knowingly poisoned our atmosphere and deceived the public about the impacts of burning fossil fuels —all the while lining executives’ pockets as communities continue to suffer from extreme heat, floods and fires.
“The science is clear: the extreme heat killing thousands of people in the northern hemisphere this summer is neither an unpredictable event nor an accident—it is the result of corporate crime.
With the backing of the National Academies, survivors of climate catastrophes now have strong evidence to pursue justice against fossil fuel polluters to pay for the devastation they have unleashed.”
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