Given the lack of understanding of basic climate science Scott Pruitt displayed on a recent appearance on CNBC, 33 House Democrats have sent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head educational materials to help him get a grip on established facts.
Speaking last week to the network’s “Squawk Box,” Pruitt sparked the ire of climate groups—and contradicted his own statements to the U.S. Senate—when he said, “I would not agree that [carbon dioxide] is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”
“As Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt must understand these non-controversial concepts,” a press statement from Rep. Earl Blumenauer (Ore.) states.
Blumenauer, along with 32 of his House colleagues including Reps. Raul Grijalva (Ariz.), Barbara Lee (Calif.), Mark Pocan (Wis.), and Jan Schakowsky (Ill.) sent to Pruitt a brief letter as well as a copy of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Climate Literacy Guide, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis report, and highlights from the latest U.S. National Climate Assessment.
“It’s clear that you need to read the enclosed reports,” they write.
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