EPA Administrator Pruitt Wrongly Dismisses Reality of Man-Made Warming
Summary: The Administrator of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, stated in a television interview that he does not agree that human activity is a prime contributor to global warming. This statement is in direct contradiction to the well-established objective scientific reality that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels adds excess, long-lasting, burdens of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Since this gas exhibits the greenhouse effect, this excess gas contributes to raising the global average temperature, and brings on harmful extremes of weather and climate. Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the U. S. National Climate Assessment, provide detailed support for such conclusions. Climate scientists subscribe essentially unanimously to the reality of man-made global warming according to a search of the scientific literature. Administrator Pruitt ignores these findings at great peril to the wellbeing of Americans, and ...