EPA chief doubts carbon dioxide’s role in global warming
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US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt
BBC News all but bursts a blood vessel over the EPA head’s opinion that the climate science ‘debate’ is not settled. Their reaction is to trot out some standard warmist platitudes, which surprises nobody.
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt has said he “would not agree” carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.
He told CNBC that measuring human impact on the climate was “very challenging” and there was “tremendous disagreement” about the issue.
Mr Pruitt instead insisted that officials needed “to continue the debate” on the issue. His remarks contradict his own agency’s findings on greenhouse gas emissions.
Data released in January by NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that the planet’s rising temperature has been “driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions in the atmosphere”. The two US agencies added that the earth’s 2016 temperatures were the warmest ever.
The EPA’s website also notes that carbon dioxide is the “primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change”.
In fact, there is consensus among the majority of scientists in the field that carbon emissions from human activities are a key driver of rising temperatures and that the impact of climate change will be severe.
Mr Pruitt, 48, sworn in last month, is considered one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial appointments due to his ties to the fossil fuel industry.
The former Oklahoma attorney general also spent years legally challenging the reach of the organisation he now heads.
Full report: EPA chief doubts carbon dioxide’s role in global warming – BBC News
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March 9, 2017 at 04:21AM
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