EPA rejects climate science as flawed

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities and threatens human health and the environment. EPA says the petitions to reconsider EPA’s Endangerment Finding are based on selectively edited, out-of-context data and a manufactured controversy - therefore providing no evidence to undermine their determination.

EPA Administrator Liza Jackson says defenders of the status quo will try to slow EPA’s efforts to get America running on clean energy. She says a better solution would be to join the vast majority of the American people who want to see more green jobs, more clean energy innovation and an end to the oil addiction that pollutes the planet and jeopardizes our national security.

EPA says the global warming trend over the past 100 years is confirmed by three separate records of surface temperature - all of which are confirmed by satellite data. Beyond this - evidence of climate change is seen in melting ice in the Arctic, melting glaciers around the world, increasing ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, shifting precipitation patterns and changing ecosystems and wildlife habitats.