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Related: About this forumScott Pruitt All Wounded That He, America's #1 Climate Liar, Is Called A Climate Liar
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In his latest interviews with Politico and Reuters, Pruitt repeated numerous talking points set forth by the fossil fuel-funded campaign to discredit climate science. All of those points have been debunked for years. But Pruitt then takes offense at the fact that people refer to him as a climate denier and he even pretends not to know what the term actually means. What does it even mean? Thats what I think about it. I deny the climate? Really? Wow, OK. Thats crazy, in my view, he told Politico.
Of course, none of the criticism surrounding Pruitts steady stream of misinformation regarding climate change states that he denies the climate. Critics emphasize his routine denial of basic climate science. Pruitt denies the well-established finding that human activity is the primary cause of climate change and thus the primary solution. Climate denier is just shorthand for rejection of the science.
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Recall that when Pruitt tried to assert humans were not the primary contributor to climate change on Fox News Sunday, even anchor Chris Wallace called him out on his denial. Mr. Pruitt, there are all kinds of studies that contradict you, Wallace said. He then noted that the worlds top climate scientists concluded theres a 95 to 100 percent chance human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.
The centrist Politico felt equally compelled to debunk Pruitt, noting, in contrast, the vast majority of the worlds climate scientists agree that the planet is warming in large part due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal. If Fox News and Politico debunk you, its probably safe to call you a climate (science) denier.
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https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-says-he-isnt-a-climate-denier-5cd77816d4c0
oxbow
(2,034 posts)And may his children and his grandchildren lose all their ill-gotten gains to the rising sea. He will be known for the rest of human history as the idiot that Cheeto Jesus put in charge of Destroying the environment
oxbow
(2,034 posts)His stupid straw-man argument and this mock victimhood really bothered me though...Especially considering the real victims are going to be everyone's children, once things go south.