EPA Administrator Pruitt Suggests Climate Change Could Be A Boon For Humanity
- 6 years ago
Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, suggested on Tuesday that climate change could bring good things for humanity.
Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, suggested on Tuesday that climate change could bring good things for humanity. "We know that humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends. So I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that necessarily is a bad thing," he said in an interview with KSNV.
Pruitt also commented, "Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100? In the year 2018?" "I mean it's fairly arrogant for us to think that we know exactly what it should be in 2100," he further noted.
The bulk of the scientific community does, in fact, have a rather sound idea of the effects rising temperatures will have on the planet and its inhabitants. They include increases in droughts, hurricane intensities, sea levels, and health problems. Not long before Pruitt shared his opinions on climate change, President Trump offered his take on the situation. In an interview with Piers Morgan, he commented, "There is a cooling and there is a heating, and I mean, look: It used to not be climate change. It used to be global warming."
Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, suggested on Tuesday that climate change could bring good things for humanity. "We know that humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends. So I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that necessarily is a bad thing," he said in an interview with KSNV.
Pruitt also commented, "Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100? In the year 2018?" "I mean it's fairly arrogant for us to think that we know exactly what it should be in 2100," he further noted.
The bulk of the scientific community does, in fact, have a rather sound idea of the effects rising temperatures will have on the planet and its inhabitants. They include increases in droughts, hurricane intensities, sea levels, and health problems. Not long before Pruitt shared his opinions on climate change, President Trump offered his take on the situation. In an interview with Piers Morgan, he commented, "There is a cooling and there is a heating, and I mean, look: It used to not be climate change. It used to be global warming."