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EPA chief: Carbon dioxide not primary cause of warming
Associated Press ^ | Mar 9, 2017 12:07 PM EST | Matthew Daly

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechangehoax; epa; fakescience; globalwarminghoax; pruitt
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1 posted on 03/09/2017 9:13:21 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The Sun is, but that’s just a SWAG .................


2 posted on 03/09/2017 9:14:56 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Olog-hai

Let the Death Threats begin...


3 posted on 03/09/2017 9:15:21 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Olog-hai

We found the sun?

I knew somebody would figure it out.

5.56mm


4 posted on 03/09/2017 9:15:40 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Olog-hai

Launch NASA into orbit.


5 posted on 03/09/2017 9:15:44 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s the sun!!


6 posted on 03/09/2017 9:16:35 AM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: Olog-hai
Heretic! Burn him, Burn him!


7 posted on 03/09/2017 9:17:23 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Olog-hai

Believe “mainstream climate science”?—you mean, kind of like believing the “mainstream media”?


8 posted on 03/09/2017 9:18:39 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Olog-hai

But what about all of the “scientists”???


9 posted on 03/09/2017 9:19:35 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Olog-hai

Thou shalt have no other greenhouse gasses besides CO2, and no other cause of it than humans.


10 posted on 03/09/2017 9:19:55 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: DennisR

Like Algore...


11 posted on 03/09/2017 9:20:52 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Olog-hai

Damn it! What’r we gonna start going by real science now?!!!.... /sarc


12 posted on 03/09/2017 9:22:03 AM PST by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


13 posted on 03/09/2017 9:22:05 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Olog-hai

Great start. Now he needs to undo the ruling that CO2 is a pollutant.


14 posted on 03/09/2017 9:22:45 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Olog-hai

At odds with? What about celebrate diversity.


15 posted on 03/09/2017 9:23:54 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Olog-hai

At odds with? What about celebrate diversity.


16 posted on 03/09/2017 9:23:57 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Algor needs to be sued into burgerflipperdom.


17 posted on 03/09/2017 9:24:38 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


18 posted on 03/09/2017 9:25:01 AM PST by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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To: Olog-hai

They can take their “mainstream” and stuff it. The environmental extremist mainstream is not our mainstresm.


19 posted on 03/09/2017 9:25:11 AM PST by Socon-Econ
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To: Olog-hai

“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”.


20 posted on 03/09/2017 9:25:32 AM PST by mtrott
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