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The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to human-caused climate change from its website - tweaking some pages to focus on the natural processes driving climate change and wiping other pages from the internet.
In October, the EPA page on Causes of Climate Change, for example, included a statement from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that noted, It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land.
That clear statement has been deleted from the page, which now mentions only climate changes from natural sources, such as volcanic activity and variations in solar activity.
This is, I think, one of the more dramatic scrubbings weve seen so far in the climate space, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, in an online live chat with reporters and followers. More and more pages have either been completely removed from the public internet - or perhaps worse, have been replaced with inaccurate information.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/epa-wiping-mention-human-caused-161508486.html
Jack Valentino
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muriel_volestrangler
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It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land, the earlier version of the website stated.
It also gave an over-95 percent probability that human activities have been the dominant cause of observable global warming since the 1950s. It also included charts outlining human emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping pollution.
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Natural processes are always influencing the earths climate and can explain climate changes prior to the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s, it stated on Monday. However, recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone.
But the page makes no mention of peoples contribution to climate change. It discusses only natural processes including changes to the Earths orbit and rotation, variations in solar activity, changes in the planets reflectivity, volcanic activity and naturally occurring greenhouse gases.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-erases-references-to-human-caused-climate-change-from-websites/
And I have to say, that, with this quote in the OP's Yahoo/WP article, Brigit Hirsch has catapulted herself into the top rank of complete shitheads who should be sent back to kindergarten and not allowed to proceed until they can behave as a normal 6 year old child:
Fuck you, Brigit. You're a waste of oxygen.