The Patriot Post® · EPA's McCarthy: Focus on Climate, Not Weather

According to Remote Sensing Systems satellite data, the global warming hiatus is now 18 years old. This lull, it’s important to note, was not predicted by a single climate model. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy nevertheless lectured Americans earlier this week on the importance of distinguishing weather from climate. The hiatus “is a short-lived issue that doesn’t represent climate,” she said. How much time then will it take for ecofascists to finally consider the pause a climate trend and not a weather outlier? Alarmists are always quick to exploit heat waves – or what they call “weather” during cold snaps – across any said portion of the globe as evidence of “climate change”; why doesn’t a nearly two-decade-old pause count? The answer to that lies in the EPA’s statist power grab. McCarthy added, “If you look at the science … nothing tells us we are being overly aggressive.” Nothing except common sense and inconvenient truths. More…