2/8/2018

CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/SCOTT PRUITT: “Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt suggested Tuesday [2-6-18] that climate change could benefit humans, despite scientific evidence to the contrary.
In an interview with KSNV in Las Vegas, Pruitt conceded that climate change is a reality and humans have contributed to it ‘to a certain degree.’ However, the EPA administrator cast doubt on its negative long-term implications…
The current scientific consensus, according to NASA, is that humans are the primary drivers of climate-warming trends, and that it is ‘proceeding at a rate unprecedented over decades to millennia.’ Some of the long-term effects of climate change include a continuing increase in global temperatures, more droughts and heatwaves, stronger and more intense hurricanes, and rising sea levels.
According to the US Global Change Research Program’s National Climate Assessment, ‘climate change presents a global public health problem, with serious health impacts predicted to manifest in varying ways in different parts of the world.’…
The US has seen a stark shift in its approach to climate change under the Trump administration and at the EPA under Pruitt’s leadership. Pruitt has shied away from robust action on climate change, and the phrase ‘climate change’ was not included in the agency’s four-year plan.”

-Jennifer Hansler, “EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt suggests climate change could benefit humans,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Feb. 8, 2018 09:16am