It’s been a bad week for those of us still clinging to an ever-thinning veil of hope regarding the pathology of climate denial. You know, the kind of hope that includes Trump Administration officials suddenly applying their vaunted business acumen to a green economy based on renewable energy. Or maybe even just a few Republicans relocating their faith in the Enlightenment, and crossing party lines to defend the scientific process.
But so far, nothing doing.
Scott Pruitt, the Trump team’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency, was asked Thursday morning on CNBC’s news program, Squawk Box, whether he believed that CO2 is the “primary control” on climate. He responded, “No.”
“I believe that measuring, with precision, human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do,” Pruitt stated, “and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So, no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”
