EPA chief Scott Pruitt says carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming

[hatrack]

Source: CNBC

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Thursday he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.

"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 ," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box."

"But we don't know that yet ... We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis," he added.

Pruitt's view is at odds with the opinion of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/epa-chief-scott-pruitt.html

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This is what we're up against - hacks, ideologues, grifters and assholes who Do Not Care about reality, and who certainly don't care about us.

[LonePirate]

1. You did not call him what he truly is - a liar. His intent is deliberate deception.

[nwduke]

13. Lying 🤥

Is a prerequisite and requirement for being considered for a position in the trump administration!

[Nitram]

35. I think it entirely possible he is actually that ignorant.

[LonePirate]

36. I concede that is a possibility. I might be giving him too much credit for knowing the facts.

I tend to believe their motives are due to nefarious reasons rather than simple ignorance. However, your case is a solid one as well.

[gordianot]

2. What I hate is being better informed than those who represent the public interest.

[Flaleftist]

12. I suspect he knows.

He just doesn't care because $$$$$. There are too many people in power that would let people die and poison the planet if it makes their bank account bigger. Then again, there are also people like Ben Carson. Just because they have a degree and a skill doesn't mean they aren't an idiot.

[Judi Lynn]

40. You're right. They hope this poisoning is so slow, they'll all die in their sleep in old age

long before the effects become deadly for their children and grandchildren.

As long as it doesn't affect them personally, they will never care. They are perverted, greedy human-shaped blobs.

Welcome to D.U., Flaleftist.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. And where did Pruitt get is doctorate in climate science? The

same as where he got is degrees in chemistry and biology? Trump University?

[bullsnarfle]

6. Nope. Same place as all the "deny-ers".

Box o' Cracker Jack.

[Cryptoad]

11. You don't have to have a PHd,,,,

Environmental Science 101 covers that.

[neeksgeek]

4. When a future president-elect needs a boat to go to the Inauguration, they'll accept the evidence

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Or if a CAT 5 hurricane hits the current one's "winter WH" - Mar-A-Largo. nt

[redstatebluegirl]

5. That's our former Attorney General.

Sounds like the energy companies are still writing his stuff for him.

[n2doc]

7. Meanwhile, We'll eliminate research on the subject in this country

Just in case!

[JudyM]

9. And his boss believes he had the biggest inauguration crowds ever. Same diff.

[CousinIT]

10. So we either choose to believe HIM or the ACTUAL climate scientists...

....I'll stick with the climate scientists thankyouverymuch.

[Submariner]

14. Blithering f**king IDIOT

This ahole has a degree in political science, NOT real science. Please die in a tornado MF'er

[Judi Lynn]

41. Just the ticket. His chances will be increasing, too, as tornadoes increase yearly.

Just imagine him, side by side, with Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, trying to outrun this tornado and some angry farmers:

[center][/center]

[groundloop]

15. Well, if the head of the EPA says it then it must be true

Every single day I'm astounded by the idiocy of this administration. 45* is certainly well on his way to destroying not only the USA but the entire civilized world.

[Still In Wisconsin]

16. In other science news, we don't actually KNOW cigarettes cause cancer. Not settled science.

After all, you can't ask a dead person (or planet) if it was the cigarettes (carbon dioxide) that killed them.

[Eyeball_Kid]

30. Tobacco damage comes from a lot of factors, eh? Pruitt's deception should give way to oversimplicity

Tobacco induced lung damage that leads to cancer can also come from radioactive isotopes from the tobacco combustion process. Some studies in the past have suggested that additives in the curing process can be factors.

But we're discussing our friend Mr. Pruitt, who, by his equivocating, conveys to us that he really doesn't know about the science of climate change and atmospheric pollution. If there is ONE knucklehead scientist out of thousands who tells us fallacies about climate change, Pruitt will use that one person as justification to call the issue debatable. That's because 1. He's intellectually lazy, and 2. He's protecting polluters.

[Still In Wisconsin]

31. They will also cite, ad nauseam, the ONE climate study with cooked data...

that among THOUSANDS that come to the same basic conclusions in a legitimate way.

[world wide wally]

17. There is NOT "tremendous disagreement" over the existence of climate change.

Just a lot of money spent lobbying by oil companies.
There IS a difference.

[SunSeeker]

18. He's just doing what Trump appointed him to do - turn us into Russia. nt

[davekriss]

19. Wonderful :(

[Botany]

20. This kind of disinformation is why the "they" want to kill off NOAA

Oh what the hell here is some real science

http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/climate/page/3057.aspx

[SHRED]

21. His hot air is however

[Laxman]

22. He's Speaking To Folks....

who would take their climate advice from a rodent before they would believe an entire field of science and scientists with PHD's. That's the state of our nation today and is exhibit A in the list of evidence of why we are doomed.

[mwooldri]

23. Methane.

Might be worse than CO2. And apparently there's a lot of it in the permafrost up north. The now melting permafrost.

So he might be right... But CO2 emissions helped start it.

[Moostache]

24. Fuck you Scott Pruitt. You are a lying piece of shit.

And Fuck you Donald Trump. You are an even bigger lying piece of shit.
And Fuck you GOP....you are all a gigantic pile of lying pieces of shit.

You are all also whores...taking money and providing fellatio for the oil interests that pay you off.

I hope you all live long enough to see the dammage done and to bury members of YOUR families that die in the impending carnage.
I also hope everyone of you lying motherfuckers lose money on waterfront properties that the sea claims imminently.

These sons of bitches need to ALL be identified and recorded in history so that whatever remains of humanity after the next century NEVER forgets their names and they become eternal pariahs to mankind like Pol Pot, Hitler, Ghengis Khan, or other madmen reviled for all time.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. They are recorded for what little time we have left to have history.

Because the stolen election has guaranteed all but an end to us, all of us.

[War Pigs]

25. and 600 earthquakes a year

Has nothing to do with Drilling and fracking. Just a coincidence science is for losers according to them

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Climate change will kill billions within a hundred years, and displace billions more.

This is undeniable now.

Too bad we cant fast forward and watch his grandchildren treading water.

[Vinca]

28. These people are so dangerous. Just what we don't need - idiots who don't believe in science.

The entire planet is at risk.

[vlyons]

29. "We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis"

What analysis? There can't be any analysis after he takes a sledge hammer to the EPA and NOAA and flushes all the years of data down the toilet.

[mn9driver]

32. The election of the Orange Shitstain has sentenced billions to die.

The fossil fuel industry has many trillions of dollars worth of product in the ground. They are determined to pump it all.

Over the next several hundred years, the result will be the worst case scenario.

[turbinetree]

33. Hey Pruitt FU and the horse you road in on.

Have you seen this video ass**** here let me remind you of what we need to survive and this is what your cronies and you are trying to deny, so again FU again

[MFM008]

34. Not a scientist

Just there to muddy the waters.

[ffr]

37. Best comment I've seen in response regarding Science Denial.

Gravity is only a theory. Maybe we should "continue the debate and continue the review and analysis" on that, too. For starters, just to see if the predictions of pro-gravity scientists can be consistently replicated, Pruitt could repeatedly drop a brick on his skull.

Me: Carbon as a greenhouse gas is not debatable. He can have the opinion that its not, but he's denying SCIENTIFIC FACT. Good luck with that Scott, you MORAN!



Here's the important part. He's the captain of our environmental ship. His willful ignorance is going to get people killed.

[tclambert]

38. Did he remember to say, "I am not a scientist" before presenting his scientific findings?

[dalton99a]

39. Bannon: "It's not carbon dioxide, it's the brown immigrants!"

[LuckyLib]

42. "continue the review and the analysis"? After you eviscerate the EPA,

defund the National Atmospheric and Oceanic research wing, and gut agencies that focus on climate change. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

[JHan]

43. K & R

[NickB79]

44. Our great-great-grandchildren will be feeling the effects of this election

Long after every one of those lying bastards in the Trump admininstration are dead and buried, their legacy will live on through the suffering, humanitarian crises, mass extinction of species and deaths of millions of people around the world as our climate falls apart around us.

This is the reason I can't forgive anyone who voted for Trump, ever. The last election was literally humanity's LAST SHOT at holding climate change to a level slightly below completely catastrophic for human civilization and the planet's ecosystems.

We failed.

[moondust]

45. And Jesus rode a dinosaur.

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