Posted on 03/09/2017 9:13:21 AM PST by Olog-hai
The new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a statement at odds with mainstream scientific consensus and his own agency.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said measuring the effect of human activity on the climate is “very challenging” and that “there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact” of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
“So, no, I would not agree that (carbon dioxide) is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Pruitt told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Pruitt’s view is contrary to mainstream climate science, including NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the EPA itself. …
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The Sun is, but that’s just a SWAG .................
Let the Death Threats begin...
We found the sun?
I knew somebody would figure it out.
5.56mm
Launch NASA into orbit.
It’s the sun!!
Believe “mainstream climate science”?—you mean, kind of like believing the “mainstream media”?
But what about all of the “scientists”???
Thou shalt have no other greenhouse gasses besides CO2, and no other cause of it than humans.
Like Algore...
Damn it! What’r we gonna start going by real science now?!!!.... /sarc
Well, if people would do calculations of radiation and dispersion over distance they would know that sunlight, which determines the total energy received by Earth, would know how powerful of a player the Sun is.
Great start. Now he needs to undo the ruling that CO2 is a pollutant.
At odds with? What about celebrate diversity.
At odds with? What about celebrate diversity.
Algor needs to be sued into burgerflipperdom.
Carbon Dioxide is not, and never could be, a measurable factor in causing either rising or lowering atmospheric or ocean temperatures. CO2 is a TRAILING indicator of either warming or cooling temperatures, not a causative agent.
Carbon dioxide is best controlled by encouraging the rapid growth of green growing plants exposed to sunlight and plenty of moisture. There is not even any particular reason to control CO2 or water vapor from smoke stacks, though the other emissions should be STRICTLY controlled.
They can take their “mainstream” and stuff it. The environmental extremist mainstream is not our mainstresm.
“Pruitt’s view is contrary to mainstream climate science, including NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the EPA itself.”
Right. The problem is, those organizations have for years been on the receiving end of various forms of federal largess, in the form of research grants and funding that have come from biased politicians who have an agenda to “take the US economic powerhouse down a notch”.
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