Science 101 for Administrator Pruitt

The document asserts that public health and environmental safeguards must be based on peer-reviewed science to prevent human death and resource destruction. It specifically challenges claims by the EPA Administrator that carbon dioxide is not the primary driver of climate change and that human contributions to CO2 are unknown. Furthermore, it warns that proposed 2018 budget cuts to zero out government climate research and cancel NASA and NOAA spacecraft would eliminate the only impartial counterbalance to industry-funded research intended to debunk environmental science.

• The author contends that the U.S. EPA must be guided by rigorous, peer-reviewed science because failure to do so leads to human death, the poisoning of children, and the destruction of natural resources.
• The document disputes claims made by the EPA Administrator that carbon dioxide is not the primary driver of climate change and that the extent of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions is unknown, stating these claims contradict the global scientific community's knowledge.
• The author argues that government-funded research is essential to provide an impartial counterbalance to millions of dollars of industry-funded research designed to debunk environmental science.
• The 2018 budget request from the Administration proposes eliminating all government research on climate change and cancelling NASA and NOAA spacecraft used to observe real-time climate changes, such as the loss of Arctic Sea ice.

APA

McCabe, D. (2017). Science 101 for Administrator Pruitt. Clean Air Task Force. https://www.catf.us/2017/04/science-101-for-administrator-pruitt/

Chicago

McCabe, David. Science 101 for Administrator Pruitt. Clean Air Task Force, 2017. https://www.catf.us/2017/04/science-101-for-administrator-pruitt/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{mccabe2017science, author = {McCabe, David}, title = {{Science 101 for Administrator Pruitt}}, publisher = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2017}, month = apr, url = {https://www.catf.us/2017/04/science-101-for-administrator-pruitt/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }