Scott Pruitt, the noted climate change doubter who
runs the Environmental Protection Agency, apparently doesn't buy the
whole
an - abundance - of - carbon - dioxide - is - warming - our - atmosphere - at - alarming - rates
theory posited by science.
- On Thursday’s installment of Squawk Box on CNBC, EPA head Scott Pruitt said he wasn’t convinced carbon dioxide emissions comprise a “primary contributor” to climate change.
- “I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Pruitt said.
- Here are the facts: NASA, one of the fact-focused scientific institutions driving the aforementioned research and analysis, calls
the release of carbon dioxide through human activities like deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels — on top of natural carbon dioxide emissions — “the most important long-lived ‘forcing’ of climate change.”
Read more (3/9/17)
https://mic.com/articles/170723/scott-pruitt-head-of-epa-isn-t-so-sure-carbon-dioxide-drives-climate-change?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=future&utm_source=policymicTBLR#.Tx77zxuSo
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