Pruitt will launch program to 'critique' climate science

[babylonsister]

Pruitt will launch program to 'critique' climate science

Emily Holden, E&E News reporter
Climatewire: Friday, June 30, 2017


U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt favors reopening the endangerment finding on greenhouse gases, according to Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp. @EPAScottPruitt/Twitter

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is leading a formal initiative to challenge mainstream climate science using a "back-and-forth critique" by government-recruited experts, according to a senior administration official.

The program will use "red team, blue team" exercises to conduct an "at-length evaluation of U.S. climate science," the official said, referring to a concept developed by the military to identify vulnerabilities in field operations.

"The administrator believes that we will be able to recruit the best in the fields which study climate and will organize a specific process in which these individuals ... provide back-and-forth critique of specific new reports on climate science," the source said.

"We are in fact very excited about this initiative," the official added. "Climate science, like other fields of science, is constantly changing. A new, fresh and transparent evaluation is something everyone should support doing."

The disclosure follows the administration's suggestions over several days that it supports reviewing climate science outside the normal peer-review process used by scientists. This is the first time agency officials acknowledged that Pruitt has begun that process. The source said Energy Secretary Rick Perry also favors the review.

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[longship]

1. John Oliver gives Pruitt some advice on the back-and-forth!

featuring Bill Nye.

[Voltaire2]

2. Im sure that will slow down the Antarctic melt.

Fucking idiots will go down in history, if we have one, as our eras Nero.

[Tanuki]

3. I wonder how many millions of tax dollars, which could have been applied to

protecting the environment, are being flushed down the toilet in this debacle.

[marylandblue]

4. I think this will backfire on Pruitt

The evidence for climate change is airtight. EVERY objection that could be raised has been answered. A skeptic vroup tried to shoot it all down in 2012 and the leader of the group ended up concluding climate change is real. So bring it on I say. Real climate science can beat the faker with one hand tied behind its back.

[JHan]

5. #ButHerEmails

[bresue]

6. Why do they take a nugget of truth to trash an important issue?

Debaters? on science? Come on, this is not an issue in court!!!

Scientists have already been debating and 99% are behind climate change. Why are we going back to square 1? We were already on phase 3 to argue best ways to fight climate control, not if it was true.

[dawg]

7. And Canute set his throne by the sea shore and ...

commanded the incoming tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes.

[bresue]

8. Furthermore, who is paying for this program?

Would not funds be better suitable in combating climate change?

And yes, climate change is daunting and overwhelming and difficult to comprehend! That we could change the outcomes of climate temperatures is wow...unbelievable! However, no matter how we do not want to believe, it is occurring and it is happening, no matter what dissenters may say...

[spanone]

9. i hope these asshole deniers live long enough to be victims of their idiocracy