Call It What It Is: Climate Cover-Up, Not Climate Denial

Today’s remarks by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt that human activity is not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see” should effectively bring an end to the term formerly known as “climate denial.”
Dear media: Call it what it is—a climate cover-up.
As our nation’s top official sworn into office to ensure, “national efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best available scientific information,” Pruitt’s statement on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” raises some troubling questions on his ability to carry out his agency’s mandate—or even provide a forthright characterization of his agency’s scientific work.
“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,” Pruitt said on CNBC, “so no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”
Tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact of human activity on the climate?
Not so, according to Pruitt’s own EPA and its website on climate change: Humans are largely responsible for recent climate change.

Not so, according to the NASA Global Climate Change website, which reminds us that “multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Cl...

Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news