US EditionEPA Removes References to Human Activity as Primary Cause of Climate Change
The EPA altered its climate website to emphasize natural causes and minimize fossil fuel links amid policy changes favoring fossil fuel industries, experts say this misleads the public.
- The EPA has removed any mention of fossil fuels as the main driver of global warming from its online page explaining climate change causes.
- Scientists and former EPA officials say this is misleading and harmful, as nearly 100% of current warming comes from human activity.
- A former Republican EPA chief says ignoring fossil fuel pollution as the driving force behind climate change is like pretending cigarettes don't cause lung cancer.
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EPA removes mentions of fossil fuels causing climate change
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists…
EPA Wins Exxon Peace Prize After Deleting 'Fossil Fuels' From Climate Change Webpages
Climate Strike protest in Hamburg, Germany, September 20, 2019. Photo by Tobias on UnsplashWelp, we all knew this was coming: As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing war on science, the Environmental “Protection” Agency has deleted most references to burning fossil fuels as the primary cause of climate change from many parts of its website. Most notably, the agency’s page on “Causes of Climate Change” no longer mentions that human activity…
The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the Environmental Protection Agency for answers. The government agency purged basic facts about global warming from its website last week — including references to how human activity releases planet-heating carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The EPA’s page explaining the causes of climate change now focuses on how “natural processes,” like variat…
EPA cuts mentions of humans from webpage on climate change causes
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed several mentions of human activity on a webpage related to the causes of climate change. Last week, the EPA quietly updated a page on its site outlining causes of global warming. Previously, the page said: “This record shows that the climate varies naturally over a wide range of time scales,…
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