{"id":135357,"date":"2017-11-14T18:18:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T01:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135357"},"modified":"2017-11-14T19:31:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:31:20","slug":"science-don-need-no-steekin-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/science-don-need-no-steekin-science.html","title":{"rendered":"“Science? We don’ need no steekin’ science!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not surprisingly, Scott Pruitt doesn’t consider the EPA climate report that says, yup, humans are definitely causing significant climate change, to actually say that humans are definitely causing significant climate change.<\/p>\n

In an interview with USA Today, Pruitt said the climate report will not stop his agency from moving forward with dismantling the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which was designed to cut global warming pollutants from coal-burning power plants. […] “We\u2019re taking the very necessary step to evaluate our authority under the Clean Air Act and we\u2019ll take steps that are required to issue a subsequent rule. That\u2019s our focus,” Pruitt said. “Does this report have any bearing on that? No it doesn\u2019t. It doesn\u2019t impact the withdrawal and it doesn\u2019t impact the replacement,” he said. […] “Obviously the climate is changing and has always changed, (and) humans contribute to that. Measuring with exact precision is very challenging,” Pruitt said. “So I think the report (is) good to encourage an open dialogue on this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This has nothing to do with open dialog. Not when dialog is about evading, denying, and discrediting. Or pretending to science when making decisions about what is scientific fact is just about what’s convenient, profitable, or ideologically proper.<\/p>\n

We live in mad times.<\/p>\n


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\nShocking no one, the EPA’s Scott Pruitt denies findings of new climate science report<\/a><\/span>
\nOh, you mean THAT climate report? Yeah, still no.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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