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DonViejo

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Sat Sep 9, 2017, 01:15 PM Sep 2017

Trump stacks administration with climate change skeptics

BY DEVIN HENRY - 09/09/17 12:52 PM EDT

President Trump has stacked his administration with officials who doubt the scientific consensus behind man-made climate change, underscoring a growing divide within the Republican party.

Even as leading scientists, environmentalists and most Democrats accept research that shows climate change accelerating — and as some see it contributing to the two mammoth hurricanes that have threatened the United States this year — some in Trump’s administration have openly raised doubts.

The rise of climate change skeptics has been most pronounced in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which helped lead then-President Obama’s efforts to regulate climate change-causing pollutants. Administrator Scott Pruitt has questioned carbon dioxide’s role as a “primary contributor” to a warming climate, something accepted by most researchers. He’s also called for a public debate over climate change science, a proposal that has caused scientists, environmentalists and former regulators to bristle.

“I think it’s going to have a chilling effect on science overall because it’s going to elevate those scientists who are in the vast minority and give them a stage that, frankly, they don’t deserve,” said Christine Whitman, President George W. Bush’s first EPA administrator, who called the proposal “shameful” in a Friday New York Times op-ed.

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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/349877-climate-skeptics-on-the-rise-in-trumps-epa

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Trump stacks administration with climate change skeptics (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
republican climate change lies are endangering America Achilleaze Sep 2017 #1

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. republican climate change lies are endangering America
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 01:41 PM
Sep 2017

Since republicans refuse to acknowledge reality or to speak truth, they should at least STFU. Their climate change lies are profoundly dangerous for Americans and the rest of the world, too.

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