US experts on Tuesday denounced a Trump administration climate report for reviving the tobacco-industry's tactics to sow doubt around scientific consensus.

In a 440-page rebuttal, 85 scientists accused the government of relying on a handful of contrarians who drew on discredited studies, misrepresented evidence, and bypassed peer review to reach pre-determined conclusions.

The administration's 150-page report, released on the Department of Energy's website in late July, was intended to support its proposal to overturn the 2009 "Endangerment Finding" -- the legal basis for numerous federal regulations of greenhouse gases.

"This report makes a mockery of science," said Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University and a co-author of the rebuttal.

"It relies on ideas that we

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