EPA panel clears Pruitts climate denial by misquoting scientific integrity policy
Source: Think Progress
A review panel for the EPA’s Scientific Integrity Policy said Tuesday it has cleared Administrator Scott Pruitt for spreading climate misinformation on a television news program earlier this summer.
But reaching exoneration required the panel to cherry-pick an irrelevant part of the agency’s Scientific Integrity Policy, while ignoring the injunction to managers to accurately represent EPA findings to the public.
Here’s what Pruitt — and the scientific integrity panel — got wrong.
Back in March, Pruitt went on CNBC and asserted that CO2 is not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.” This was in direct contradiction to both well-established science, as Politifact noted, and EPA’s own website (at the time), which explained at length why “carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change.”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/epa-panel-clears-pruitts-climate-denial-by-misquoting-scientific-integrity-policy-2d1db8a35c3a
So when applying for a position with this sexual predator, I just wonder what the questions that he asked:
Can you LIE , YES or NO
