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Pruitt: EPA will review "politicized" climate science report

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G.ZZZ

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Full article on Politico, but the gist is pretty clear, Pruitt is gonna change the review to fit in line with the climate deniers agenda:

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt said his staff will gauge the “accuracy” of a major federal science report that blames human activity for climate change — just days after researchers voiced their fears to The New York Times that the Trump administration would alter or suppress its findings.

“Frankly this report ought to be subjected to peer-reviewed, objective-reviewed methodology and evaluation,” Pruitt told a Texas radio show Thursday. “Science should not be politicized. Science is not something that should be just thrown about to try to dictate policy in Washington, D.C.”
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Can the world handle all this freedom? The US showing the other shit tier countries how it's done once again
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Full: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/11/pruitt-climate-report-epa-241546
 
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cameron

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Related, NYT: Scott Pruitt Is Carrying Out His E.P.A. Agenda in Secret, Critics Say
WASHINGTON — When career employees of the Environmental Protection Agency are summoned to a meeting with the agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt, at agency headquarters, they no longer can count on easy access to the floor where his office is, according to interviews with employees of the federal agency.

Doors to the floor are now frequently locked, and employees have to have an escort to gain entrance.

Some employees say they are also told to leave behind their cellphones when they meet with Mr. Pruitt, and are sometimes told not to take notes.

Mr. Pruitt, according to the employees, who requested anonymity out of fear of losing their jobs, often makes important phone calls from other offices rather than use the phone in his office, and he is accompanied, even at E.P.A. headquarters, by armed guards, the first head of the agency to ever request round-the-clock security.
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A former Oklahoma attorney general who built his career suing the E.P.A., and whose LinkedIn profile still describes him as “a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Mr. Pruitt has made it clear that he sees his mission to be dismantling the agency’s policies — and even portions of the institution itself.

But as he works to roll back regulations, close offices and eliminate staff at the agency charged with protecting the nation’s environment and public health, Mr. Pruitt is taking extraordinary measures to conceal his actions, according to interviews with more than 20 current and former agency employees.

Together with a small group of political appointees, many with backgrounds, like his, in Oklahoma politics, and with advice from industry lobbyists, Mr. Pruitt has taken aim at an agency whose policies have been developed and enforced by thousands of the E.P.A.’s career scientists and policy experts, many of whom work in the same building.
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Allies of Mr. Pruitt say he is justified in his measures to ramp up his secrecy and physical protection, given that his agenda and politics clash so fiercely with those of so many of the 15,000 employees at the agency he heads.

“E.P.A. is legendary for being stocked with leftists,” said Steven J. Milloy, a member of Mr. Trump’s E.P.A. transition team and author of the book “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the E.P.A.” “If you work in a hostile environment, you’re not the one that’s paranoid.”
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Dyle

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Dumbass, the report has already been peer reviewed and is the work of 13 different federal agencies. The EPA chief should be required to live in one of the waterlogged districts of Miami so that they have to face climate change every day
 
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Koren

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ClosingADoor said:
Science should not be politicized
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Very true. So why the fuck are you doing that exact thing. But we already know the answer to that.
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Not that I disagree, but the whole IPCC is heavily politicized, and not the best example of things done right.

They're most probably right, but it's a pretty awful example of how science should be handled, especially if half the leaks are true.
 
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Jackpot

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“Frankly this report ought to be subjected to peer-reviewed, objective-reviewed methodology and evaluation,”
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Scientists called his remarks troubling, especially because the report — part of a broader, congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment — has already undergone “rigorous” peer-review by a 14-person committee at the National Academies.
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"Certainly it’s a possibility, and if the administration doesn’t understand that it’s already peer-reviewed, that really is a sign of concern that he may not understand the process," Davidson said. "If he’s continuing to question why CO2 is a big deal, that’s also very concerning, because CO2 is a big deal. … To see those quotes continue to come out is definitely disconcerting."
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"The implication of [Pruitt's statement] is that it hasn’t been linked to the data," she said of the report. "That certainly is not true. This is built on a mountain of evidence."
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RMI

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Uhhh isn't the report a review in the sense that it is a summary of multiple previous studies that have already been subjected to the peer review process?

"Let's all just say words that have no meaning or basis in reality" is the really tiring MO of this administration. It reminds me of the time I was on the phone with someone trying to run a magazine subscription scam. You start to feel like you are crazy after a while. This is some gaslighting type shit.
 
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Beartruck

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To be fair, he said objective reviewed. I don't think he meant objective as in fair, he meant it as in what suits his objective.
 
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Shaanyboi

Banned
The brazen anti-science agenda these people have should be considered illegal. This shit is fucking dangerous, and these people are a cancer.
 
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Ithil

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That stupid fucking marketing buzzword again.

"This report should be objective and peer reviewed and shouldn't be politicized" from them actually means "We want to politicize this objective report because we are in the pockets of oil companies".
 
B

Brazil

Living in the shadow of Amaz
Climate change deniers in positions of power are literally the biggest criminals the planet has ever seen.

Death would be too easy for this scum.
 
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