Climate change denier among those appointed to EPA science board
The Environmental Protection Agency appointed several new members to its Science Advisory Board who have denied key findings of the harmful effects of man-made pollutants on the environment and human health. The appointments by acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler come following the former coal lobbyist and Republican Senate aides confirmation hearing last month for him to assume the role permanently. Wheeler said at the hearing that he would not call (climate change) the greatest crisis, adding that he considers it a huge issue that has to be addressed globally. One of the newly appointed board members is Dr. John Christy, a professor at University of Alabama in Huntsville whos a known climate change denier. I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see, Christy wrote in a 2007 Wall Street Journal op-ed when he was on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a co-recipient of that years Nobel Peace Prize. In the op-ed, Christy accused colleagues projecting century-long weather patterns of having overstated-confidence and warned of jump-to-conclusions advocates and, unfortunately, some scientists who see in every weather anomaly the specter of a global-warming apocalypse. Three new appointees have worked on projects dismissing the harmful effects of low doses of well-known toxins. CORRECTIONS: The spelling of Dr. John Christys name and portions of Dr. Richard Williams biography have been corrected.