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Judge Orders EPA To Produce Science Behind Pruitt's Climate Claims (scientificamerican.com)
EPA must produce the opposing body of science Administrator Scott Pruitt has relied upon to claim that humans are not the primary drivers of global warming, a federal judge has ruled. From a report: The EPA boss has so far resisted attempts to show the science backing up his claims. His critics say such evidence doesn't exist, even as Pruitt has called for greater science transparency at the agency. Now, a court case may compel him to produce research that attempts to contradict the mountain of peer-reviewed studies collected by the world's top science agencies over decades that show humans are warming the planet at an unprecedented pace through the burning of fossil fuels. Not long after he took over as EPA administrator, Pruitt appeared on CNBC's "Squawk Box," where he was asked about carbon dioxide and climate change. He said, "I would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see." The next day, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the studies Pruitt used to make his claims. Specifically, the group requested "EPA documents that support the conclusion that human activity is not the largest factor driving global climate change." On Friday, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Beryl Howell, ordered the agency to comply.
You are seriously delusional.
Any time the entire worlds scientists in any field have more than a 90% consensus on it, there is literally tons of proof (as in published peer reviewed papers on the subject supporting it printed in the old dead tree format so it can be weighed.)
It's up to the dissenters to provide proof to overturn the plethora of evidence we already have. So far you deniers have provided squat if we don't bother to count all the hot air you've been spewing. By the way, your breath stinks of corruption.
You know... because asking someone to provide proof of a claim is anti-conservative.
When you only ask one side to provide proof of something, that's bullshit.
When the one side making the absurd claims is the side that has not conducted any repeatable experiments on the matter, has not been able to accurately predict things, and keeps revising both their models and data points in order to fit their hypothesis, yet they're the "accepted" side, that's bullshit.
But the most bullshit thing is not realizing the simple fact that carbon dioxide is absolutely not the primary cause of global warming. Not only is CO2 a weak greenhouse gas, human production of it doesn't account for the majority of it. The primary cause of warming and cooling is the fucking sun, by far. If you want to get into secondary factors, then plain ol' water vapor beats out CO2 by a country mile.