New Study Explicitly Refutes Trump EPA Head’s Denial

Scientists just published an entire study refuting Scott Pruitt on climate change

Chris Mooney, May 24, 2017 (Washington Post)

“In a sign of growing tensions between scientists and the Trump administration, researchers published a scientific paper…conceived and written as an explicit refutation to an assertion by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about climate change…[It tests Pruitt’s claim that data shows warming has leveled “over the past two decades” and refutes it. After reviewing temperature trends contained in three satellite data sets going back to 1979, the paper concludes that the data sets show a global warming trend — and that Pruitt was incorrect…The study wades into an ongoing and highly fraught debate over how to interpret the temperature records of the planet’s lower atmosphere, or troposphere, provided by polar orbiting satellites…[T]he new study finds that all of the three satellite data sets — kept by Remote Sensing Systems, the Center for Satellite Applications and Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the University of Alabama at Huntsville — show a long-term warming trend in the middle to upper part of the troposphere…” click here for more

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