Climate Clowns Angry That Snott Pruitt's "Red Team" Plan May Not Happen; Pressure Grows

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Climate skeptics have been holding closed-door meetings to identify candidates for U.S. EPA's "red team" exercise aimed at poking holes in mainstream science and to discuss ways to prevent agency Administrator Scott Pruitt from reneging on his promise to do it.

The conservative think tank Heartland Institute has hosted climate scientists, economists and lawyers in recent months to formulate their vision of the red team, according to an email obtained by E&E News. It contains a meeting description that offers a broad look at skeptics' policy playbook under the Trump administration while exposing stark suspicions about Pruitt.

"EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's proposal for a Red Team-Blue Team exercise is vague, probably would not be effective, and is unlikely to come about," Heartland CEO Joseph Bast wrote in an email last week that summarized a Sept. 28 meeting at the group's headquarters just outside of Chicago. "More likely to occur," he wrote, "is a similar exercise directed by the head of another department" — like NASA, NOAA or the White House science office — "with more interest than Pruitt has shown in the scientific debate and more likely to stick around to see the results."

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Ideas floated, according to Bast's email, included, "Stop chasing the other side's latest argument and focus instead on the benefits of CO2" and "sue a company for not increasing CO2 emissions, force a court to consider the evidence on CO2 benefits."

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https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060063693

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1. "Conservative liars at Heartland, paid by oil companies...."

That's the real way to describe them...

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2. K & R

So important to stay up on this stuff. "focus on the benefits of CO2" and "sue a company for not increasing CO2 emissions." Almost beyone imagination, but true.