Today’s remarks by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt that human activity is not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see” should effectively bring an end to the term formerly known as “climate denial.”Dear media: Call it what it is—a climate cover-up. “I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact,” Pruitt said on CNBC, “so no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”Tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact of human activity on the climate? Not so, according to Pruitt’s own EPA and its website on climate change: Humans are largely responsible for recent climate change. Therefore, let’s finally put to rest the prevarication of “climate denial” terminology. With the fallout of record warming temperatures, a growing climate migration crisis and vanishing arctic sea ice, that cover-up is not just a question of semantics.

Source: Huffington Post March 09, 2017 19:41 UTC