Scores of researchers reviewed the Energy Department’s argument about greenhouse gases and found serious deficiencies. The Trump administration’s report highlighted the work of Kristie Ebi, a global health professor at the University of Washington, as proof that dietary supplements would help combat nutrient loss from plants in a warmer world. But Dr. Ebi said her research did not make that claim.

Researchers of the Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network, a group of clinical experts and scientists including those from the University of Washington's Department of Global Health, investigated how often, when, and why young children in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia die when admitted to hospitals. 

Kristie Ebi, Professor in the University of Washington's Department of Global Health and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, mentions how toxic smoke caused by these fires can be due to containing more harmful components than we might think. “It’s not just leaves and branches and trees” that are burned, she said. “It’s buildings. It’s gasoline stations. It’s old houses that have asbestos in them. It’s automobiles. There are lots of components of wildfire smoke.”

Scientists argue that the administration's new report, composed in less than two months by five authors known to have skeptical views on climate science, would not pass any peer review process. Kristie Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, states that “There is a history of some of the authors of this document cherry-picking dates to show that there is no change, but they’re not providing the evidence to support that."