EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming’s causes. Scientists call it misleading

By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON AP The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels the main driver of global warming from its popular online page explaining the causes of circumstances change Now it only mentions natural phenomena even though scientists calculate that nearly all of the warming is due to human activity Related Articles DOJ ends monitoring of illegal dumping in Houston in retreat from environmental justice UN says world must jointly tackle issues of conditions change garbage biodiversity and land loss Georgia O Keeffe s views of the New Mexico desert will be preserved with conservation plan The holiday shopping season comes with tons of extra emissions Here s how to do it sustainably Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking rise of wind resource Sometime in the past scarce days or weeks EPA altered specific but not all of its weather change webpages de-emphasizing and even deleting references to the burning of coal oil and natural gas which scientists say is the overwhelming cause of circumstances change The website s causes of environment page mentions changes in Earth s orbit solar activity Earth s reflectivity volcanoes and natural carbon dioxide changes but not the burning of fossil fuels Seven scientists and three former EPA officers tell The Associated Press that this is misleading and harmful Now it is thoroughly wrong stated University of California atmosphere scientist Daniel Swain who also noted that impacts risks and indicators of situation change on the EPA site are now broken links This was a tool that I know for a fact that a lot of educators used and a lot of people It was literally one of the best designed easy access situation change information websites for the U S Earlier this year the Trump Administration removed the national conditions assessment from cabinet websites It is outrageous that our establishment is hiding information and lying disclosed former Obama National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief and Oregon State oceanographer Jane Lubchenco People have a right to know the truth about the things that affect their wellness and safety and the establishment has a responsibility to tell the truth An October version of the same EPA page saved by the internet Wayback Machine declared Since the Industrial Revolution human exercises have issued large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere which has changed the earth s atmosphere Natural processes such as changes in the sun s capacity and volcanic eruptions also affect the Earth s conditions However they do not explain the warming that we have observed over the last century That now reads Natural processes are inevitably influencing the earth s atmosphere and can explain state changes prior to the Industrial Revolution in the s However latest context changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone Unlike the previous administration the Trump EPA is focused on protecting human soundness and the atmosphere while Powering the Great American Comeback not left-wing political agendas announced Brigit Hirsch EPA spokesperson in an email As such this agency no longer takes marching orders from the state cult Plus for all the pearl-clutchers out there the website is archived and available to the inhabitants Clicking on explore state change information on the EPA archived website leads to an error message that says This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it Former Republican Governor Christie Todd Whitman who was EPA administrator under George W Bush declared You can refuse to talk about it but it doesn t make it go away And we re seeing it Everybody s seeing it We look ridiculous quite frankly Whitman recounted The Associated Press in an interview The rest of the world understands this is happening and they re taking moves And we re just going backwards We re knocking ourselves back into the Stone Age Democratic EPA chief Gina McCarthy blasted current EPA chief Lee Zeldin calling him a wolf in sheep s clothing actively spiking any attempt to protect our wellbeing well-being and precious natural tools Nearly of the warming the world is now experiencing is from human activity and without that the Earth would be cooling and dropping in temperatures until the Industrial Revolution Swain and other scientists stated The EPA listed natural causes might be causing a very tiny amount of warming or cooling at the moment he noted Marcia McNutt a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that there is consensus among experts from the National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine or NASEM on the causes of surroundings change Numerous NASEM reports from the nation s leading scientists confirm that the setting is changing as a development of human engagements McNutt declared Even the EPA acknowledges that natural causes cannot explain the current changes in context It is crucial that the general be presented with all of the facts Former EPA environment advisor Jeremy Symons now a senior advisor for Environmental Protection Arrangement of former EPA bureaucrats announced Ignoring fossil fuel garbage as the driving force behind the context changes we have seen in our lifetime is like pretending cigarettes don t cause lung cancer Michael Phillis contributed to this summary The Associated Press weather and environmental coverage receives financial advocacy from multiple private foundations AP is solely responsible for all content Find AP s standards for working with philanthropies a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP org