{"id":51255,"date":"2026-02-27T15:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=51255"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:36:45","slug":"doe-cwg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/02\/27\/doe-cwg\/","title":{"rendered":"DOE CWG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>[Instrumental Intro: Pulsing Bass, Organ Swell, Muted Guitar Chops, Rising Synth Filter]<br \/>[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>Department of Energy<br \/>(D.O.E.)<br \/>Gee&#8230;<br \/>(Really?)<br \/>[Instrumental]<br \/>[Bass Solo]<br \/>[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>The C.W.G.<br \/>(Never studied reality)<br \/>Oh, no tragically<br \/>(A different strategy)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Breakdown]<br \/>[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>Oh no&#8230; (Eco)<br \/>Fascists<br \/>(Shhh&#8230; it&#8217;s)<br \/>A shame<br \/>(Who&#8217;s to blame?<br \/>[Instrumental]<br \/>[Guitar Solo \u2014 sharper, angular]<br \/>[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>Department of Energy<br \/>(D.O.E.)<br \/>Gee&#8230;<br \/>(Really?)<br \/>Coulda fooled me<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>[Saxophone Solo]<br \/>[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>The Climate Working Group?<br \/>(Never heard a feedback loop)<br \/>Oh, no calamity<br \/>(A sinister strategy)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Breakdown]<br \/>[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>Oh no&#8230; (Eco)<br \/>Fascists<br \/>(Shhh&#8230; it&#8217;s)<br \/>A shame<br \/>(Who&#8217;s to blame?<br \/>[Instrumental]<br \/>[Guitar Solo \u2014 sharper, angular]<br \/>[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>Department of Energy<br \/>(D.O.E.)<br \/>Gee&#8230;<br \/>(Really?)<br \/>Coulda fooled me<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>Department of Energy<br \/>(D.O.E.)<br \/>Gee&#8230;<br \/>(Really?)<br \/>Coulda fooled me<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<\/p>\n<h2>The Federal Court Ruling<\/h2>\n<p>The U.S. District Court ruled that the DOE\u2019s formation of the \u201cClimate Working Group\u201d violated FACA requirements. Under FACA, federal advisory committees must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operate transparently<\/li>\n<li>Provide balanced viewpoints<\/li>\n<li>Maintain publicly accessible records<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the court, the group did not meet these standards and operated without sufficient public oversight. The report produced by the group was reportedly referenced in efforts related to reconsideration of the Endangerment Finding.<\/p>\n<h2>Composition of the Climate Working Group<\/h2>\n<p>The group was coordinated by Travis Fisher and included five researchers known for publicly questioning aspects of prevailing climate models and projections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steven E. Koonin<\/li>\n<li>John Christy<\/li>\n<li>Judith Curry<\/li>\n<li>Roy Spencer<\/li>\n<li>Ross McKitrick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Member Backgrounds<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Steven E. Koonin:<\/strong>\u00a0Physicist and senior fellow at Stanford&#8217;s Hoover Institution; former DOE official under Obama and chief scientist for BP; author of a book arguing climate science is &#8220;unsettled&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Judith Curry:<\/strong>\u00a0Climatologist, professor emerita at Georgia Institute of Technology; known for criticizing what she terms &#8220;alarmism&#8221; regarding climate change.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ross McKitrick:<\/strong>\u00a0Environmental economics professor at University of Guelph, senior fellow at Fraser Institute; argues that the climate crisis is not a major issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Connections to the CO\u2082 Coalition<\/h2>\n<p>The CO\u2082 Coalition is a nonprofit organization advocating a reassessment of carbon dioxide\u2019s role in climate change and opposing certain regulatory approaches.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Roy Spencer<\/strong>\u00a0is publicly listed as affiliated with the CO\u2082 Coalition and has authored or reviewed materials distributed by the organization.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Christy<\/strong>\u00a0has collaborated with individuals within the same policy network and has worked closely with Spencer on satellite temperature research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Account\/\">Account<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro][Instrumental Intro: Pulsing Bass, Organ Swell, Muted Guitar Chops, Rising Synth Filter][Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]Department of Energy(D.O.E.)Gee&#8230;(Really?)[Instrumental][Bass Solo][Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March] [Verse 1]The C.W.G.(Never studied reality)Oh, no tragically(A different strategy) [Bridge \u2013 Breakdown][Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]Oh no&#8230; (Eco)Fascists(Shhh&#8230; it&#8217;s)A shame(Who&#8217;s to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-51255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51259,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51255\/revisions\/51259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}