The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) is beingdecimatedfrom within by its own administrator , Scott Pruitt . Not content with this surreal act of self - devastation , though , Pruitt seems keen to muddy up the waters of mood science whenever potential .

mouth to Nevada’sNews 3a few days back , the EPA decision maker was having an amiable chat with intelligence anchor Gerard Ramalho . For some reasonableness , while need Pruitt ’s cerebration on climate change , Ramalho rather irritatingly propose that “ hoi polloi do n’t seem to argufy the fact that the climate is vary … but there are two areas that are disputed , ” admit whether “ serviceman is causing the climate to change . ”

Quick fact check , sept : scientist arenot disputingwhether or not multitude are make modern-day climate change , because they sleep together that we are . irrespective , like a pyromaniac being handed a box of firelighter , Pruitt clearly relished the chance to twirl this misinformation out .

“ No - one disputes that the clime changes , is change – that ’s constant . We manifestly contribute to it . We live in the climate , right ? ” he began , before erroneously evoke that we only add to the mood to “ a certain degree . ”

Gavin Schmidt , film director of NASA ’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , summed up the consensus here quite compactly . During a late insistence group discussion , henotedthat “ all of the warming in the last 60 years is attributable to human natural process , and carbon dioxide emissions are the figure one factor of that . ”

Then , Pruitt said : “ We know that humans have most flourished during times of warming trends . There are premise made that because the clime is warming that that necessarily is a uncollectible affair . ”

Oh , Scott . You do spoil us .

Arguably the President ’s most efficacious weapon against sporty energy and climate modification extenuation , Pruitt is a dye - in - the - woolen coal advocate whose scientific discipline denial serves industriousness interests with cool . Yes , the dismantling of the EPA is insidious and damaging , but so is his rhetoric , which has oscillated from “ atomic number 6 dioxidedoes notdrive the mood ” to “ skill shouldn’tdictateAmerican policy . ”

Flat - out mood denial is becoming a bit old chapeau , though : the raw sort of defence is to accept the fact that the contemporaneous climate is change , but to also deny the pace of modification , traverse what ’s labor it , or suggest that “ the climate has always change . ”

suggest that increasing surface temperaturesmay be goodfor man is a less unwashed but evenly incredulous argument to make . Fewer wintertime deaths and better food productiveness insmall pocketsof the world are clearly overshadowed by the fact that , for many , the unprecedented footstep of anthropogenic climate change present anything from adangerto a full - blown existentialcrisis .

“ I ’d be happy to sit down down with the Secretary and clear up the fact around preceding versus present climate alteration . ”

The danger of a chop-chop warming universe are clear . Hurricanesexacerbatedby warmer waters and wetter skies have led to record - breakingdamages . Warmer and more polluted environments are making peoplesicker .

mood change is causing ocean level to rise upon the shore of isolated island and wealthy coastal city , and it ’s even widening theinequality gapas the pathetic carry the brunt of the detrimental effects . Two billion people may be climaterefugeesby 2100 .

A rapidly warming satellite is trigger ecologicalcollapses , with oceanic ecosystemsstrugglingto keep up . Food chains that we rely on are being interrupt , andagricultureis ineffectual to keep up with the rising mercury . Parts of the earth will potentially beuninhabitably hotby the middle of this century .

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) recentlydeclaredthat “ climate alteration is the greatest threat to world health in the 21st century . ” Flourish , we will not .

There are reasons that outside understanding like the Paris conformity survive . Science have it away that , because of us , the world is warming at an unprecedented tempo . We ’re scrambling to well interpret the detrimental effects it will have , but the scientific consensus full point toward a worrying future .

Prof. Michael Mann , the Director of the Earth System Science Center at The Pennsylvania State University , intimate to IFLScience that Pruitt ’s latest whimsy is just another stagecoach of climate denial .

“ As the evidence becomes ever more compelling that climate change is real and human caused , the forces of self-renunciation crook to other specious argumentation , like ‘ it will be upright for us ’ , ” he say .

“ There is no eubstance at all to their various disceptation other than that we should continue to burn up fossil fuels . ”

The EPA has n’t respond to a petition for remark .