Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, has dismissed a basic scientific understanding of climate change by denying that carbon dioxide emissions are a primary cause of global warming. Pruitt said on Thursday that he did not believe that the release of CO2, a heat-trapping gas, was pushing global temperatures upwards. This finding is backed by Nasa, which calls CO2 “the most important long-lived ‘forcing’ of climate change”. “When it comes to climate change, the evidence is robust and overwhelmingly clear that the cost of inaction is unacceptably high. Climate change denial in the Trump cabinet: where do his nominees stand?

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2017 19:12 UTC