Climate in the News

Plumer, Brad, and Coral Davenport. “E.P.A. to Give Dissenters a Voice on Climate, No Matter the Consensus.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 30 June 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/climate/scott-pruitt-climate-change-red-team.html

Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, and a known skeptic of the scientific consensus on climate change has created a plan to further study human impact on climate change. The tactic he plans to use is used often in military tactics, called a red-team blue-team tactic, with scientists first stating the pitfalls in the scientific consensus, then the “blue-team” rebutting their claims and defending the current consensus. Scientists deem this as mocking the current scientific process, and say they have already weeded out any doubt that humans are causing this problem.