The issue focused on the issue of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) "Climate Change Science and Technology Directorate."

"DOE's climate change science and technology directorate provides expertise and expertise to DOE's Office of Science in the development, acquisition, development, deployment, analysis, dissemination, and evaluation of technologies, processes, methods, and programs, and to other federal agencies, departments, and agencies of the U.S. Government in the development and delivery of climate change information