In claiming to be a Democrat, Mick Reynolds may in my opinion be flying false colors by calling "fake news" from the New York Times. I had not heard that the final draft of the National Climate Assessment had been publicly posted. I don't consider a citation of a Twitter tweet to be proof of anything. I don't use any internet social media myself. Because the draft report runs to 300 pages, it won't fit on a tweet. No one with anything important to say, tweets. Tweets are for children.

The draft report, before public release, has to be approved by 13 federal agencies including the EPA, headed by Scott Pruitt, who denies both climate change and it human causation. That's why the final draft was "leaked" to the Times.

Reynolds may be right that the report in some form was publicly posted somewhere earlier, but I had seen no news about it until August 8 in the NYTimes. This report is explosive. I can't believe that it has been sitting around unreported since December.