pell, george

=<div><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/12/12/controversial-australian-climate-science-denier-cardinal-george-pell-removed-vatican-advisory-group" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Controversial Australian Climate Science Denier Cardinal George Pell Removed from Vatican Advisory Group</a></div><div>
<div>oct <a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:89NetpgNtnsJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058443+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:89NetpgNtnsJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058443%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=0ahUKEwjNxvC3y4rbAhVJMqwKHa0DBM8QIAhRMAk" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px; display: inline !important;"></a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:89NetpgNtnsJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058443+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:89NetpgNtnsJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058443%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=0ahUKEwjNxvC3y4rbAhVJMqwKHa0DBM8QIAhRMAk" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px; display: inline !important;">2011</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:89NetpgNtnsJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058443+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:89NetpgNtnsJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058443%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=0ahUKEwjNxvC3y4rbAhVJMqwKHa0DBM8QIAhRMAk" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><div id="story-description" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:89NetpgNtnsJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058443+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:89NetpgNtnsJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058443%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=0ahUKEwjNxvC3y4rbAhVJMqwKHa0DBM8QIAhRMAk" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">SCIENCE and technology have already achieved considerable mastery over nature, and massive local achievements. But where is the borderline separating us from what is beyond human power?</a></div><p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Where does scientific striving become uneconomic, immoral or ineffectual and so lapse into hubris? Have scientists been co-opted on to a bigger, better-advertised and more expensive bandwagon than the millennium bug fiasco?<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We can only attempt to identify the causes of climate change through science and these causes need to be clearly established after full debates, validated comprehensively, before expensive remedies are imposed on industries and communities.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I first became interested in the question in the 1990s when studying the anti-human claims of the "deep greens". Mine is not an appeal to the authority of any religious truth in the face of contrary scientific evidence. Neither is it even remotely tinged by a postmodernist hostility to rationality.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">My appeal is to reason and evidence, and in my view the evidence is insufficient to achieve practical certainty on many of these scientific issues.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Recently Robert Manne, following fashionable opinion, wrote that "the science is truly settled" on the fundamental theory of climate change: global warming is happening; it is primarily caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide; and it is certain to have profound effects in the future .<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">His appeal is to the "consensual view among qualified scientists". This is a category error, scientifically and philosophically. In fact, it is also a cop-out, a way of avoiding the basic issues.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The basic issue is not whether the science is settled but whether the evidence and explanations are adequate in that paradigm.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I fear, too, that many politicians have never investigated the primary evidence.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Much is opaque to non-specialists, but persistent inquiry and study can produce useful clarifications, similar to the nine errors identified by the British High Court in Al Gore's propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The complacent appeal to scientific consensus is simply one more appeal to authority, quite inappropriate in science or philosophy.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">It is not generally realised that in 2001 at least, one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report's workinggroups agreed: "In climate research and modelling, we are dealing with a coupled, non-linear, chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible."<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Claims of atmospheric warming often appear to conflict and depend upon the period of time under consideration.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">► The earth has cooled during the past 10,000 years since the Holocene climate optimum.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">► The earth has cooled since 1000 years ago, not yet achieving the temperatures of the Medieval Warm Period.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">► The earth has warmed since 400 years ago after the Little Ice Age three centuries ago.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">► The earth warmed between 1979 and 1998 and has cooled slightly since 2001.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The following facts are additional reasons for scepticism.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">► In many places, most of the 11,700 years since the end of the last ice age were warmer than the present by up to 2C.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">► Between 1695 and 1730, the temperature in England rose by 2.2C. That rapid warming, unparalleled since, occurred long before the Industrial Revolution.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">► From 1976 to 2001, "the global warming rate was 0.16C per decade", as it was from 1860 to 1880 and again from 1910 to 1940.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">My suspicions have been deepened through the years by the climate movement's totalitarian approach to opposing views. Those secure in their explanations do not need to be abusive.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The term "climate change denier", however expedient as an insult or propaganda weapon, with its deliberate overtones of comparison with Holocaust denial, is not a useful description of any significant participant in the discussion. I was not surprised to learn that the IPCC used some of the world's best advertising agencies to generate maximum effect among the public .<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The rewards for proper environmental behaviour are uncertain, unlike the grim scenarios for the future as a result of human irresponsibility which have a dash of the apocalyptic about them.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The immense financial costs true believers would impose on economies can be compared with the sacrifices offered traditionally in religion, and the sale of carbon credits with the pre-Reformation practice of selling indulgences.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Some of those campaigning to save the planet are not merely zealous but zealots. To the religionless and spiritually rootless, mythology - whether comforting or discomforting - can be magnetically, even pathologically, attractive.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Whatever our political masters might decide at this high tide of Western indebtedness, they are increasingly unlikely, because of popular pressure, to impose new financial burdens on their populations in the hope of curbing the rise of global temperatures, except perhaps in Australia, which has 2 per cent of the world's industrial capacity and only 1.2 per cent of its CO2 emissions, while continuing to sell coal and iron worth billions of dollars to Asia.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Extreme weather events are to be expected. This is why I support the views of Bjorn Lomborg and Bob Carter that money should be used to raise living standards and reduce vulnerability to catastrophes.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The cost of attempts to make global warming go away will be very heavy. They may be levied initially on "the big polluters" but they will eventually trickle down to the end-users. Efforts to offset the effects on the vulnerable are well intentioned but history tells us they can only be partially successful.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. My request is for common sense and what the medievals, following Aristotle, called prudence.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The appeal must be to the evidence. First of all we need adequate scientific explanations as a basis for our economic estimates. We also need history, philosophy, even theology and many will use, perhaps create, mythologies. But most importantly we need to distinguish which is which.<p class="selectionShareable" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Cardinal George Pell is the Archbishop of Sydney. This is an edited extract of a speech given yesterday at the Global Warming Policy Forum in London.<div>
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</div><div>...Environmental Protection Agency Administrator <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/scott-pruitt" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" scott="Scott" pruitt="Pruitt" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.huffingtonpost.com="www.huffingtonpost.com" topic="topic" scott-pruitt="scott-pruitt" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="1" data-v9y="1" style="font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Scott Pruitt</a>’s expensive trip to Italy last year included dinner with Vatican treasurer George Pell, a climate denier since charged with child sex abuse, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/994707800277372928" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" documents="documents" unearthed="unearthed" by="by" the="The" new="New" york="York" times="Times" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" twitter.com="twitter.com" ericliptonnyt="EricLiptonNYT" status="status" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" style="font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">documents unearthed by The New York Times</a>. </div><div>
</div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="2" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;">Emails obtained by Times reporter Eric Lipton and shared Thursday on Twitter reveal that planning for the June dinner began a month earlier. EPA staffers were fully aware that Pell, a cardinal who is the Vatican’s third-ranking official, was at the time under investigation, but it appears they sought to cover up Pell’s attendance rather than alter Pruitt’s schedule, Lipton found. Pell was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/world/australia/cardinal-george-pell-charged-sexual-abuse.html" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" charged="charged" with="with" sex="sex" crimes="crimes" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.nytimes.com="www.nytimes.com" world="world" australia="australia" cardinal-george-pell-charged-sexual-abuse.html="cardinal-george-pell-charged-sexual-abuse.html" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">charged with sex crimes</a> in Australia three weeks after the dinner.</div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="3" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;">Pruitt’s dinner with Pell at a fancy Roman restaurant was omitted from four official EPA calendars. They mention the dinner itself, but the list of attendees didn’t include Pell.</div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="4" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;">The scandal-plagued EPA chief and the Vatican executive discussed a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-red-team-exercise-would-strengthen-climate-science-1492728579" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" wall="Wall" street="Street" journal="Journal" op-ed="op-ed" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.wsj.com="www.wsj.com" articles="articles" a-red-team-exercise-would-strengthen-climate-science-1492728579="a-red-team-exercise-would-strengthen-climate-science-1492728579" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:4;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Wall Street Journal op-ed</a> advocating the creation of a “red team/blue team” process to debate climate science, according to an email obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. </div><div class="content-list-component embed-asset bn-content-list-embed yr-content-list-embed" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 40px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; width: 705px; font-size: 18px;"><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-0" data-tweet-id="994714048594939909" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 500px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;" /><div data-twitter-event-id="0" class="SandboxRoot env-bp-350" style="direction: ltr; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; white-space: initial; position: relative;"><div class="EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent" data-click-to-open-target="https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/994714048594939909" data-iframe-title="Twitter Tweet" data-dt-full="%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}" data-dt-explicit-timestamp="4:01 PM - May 10, 2018" data-dt-months="Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec" data-dt-am="AM" data-dt-pm="PM" data-dt-now="now" data-dt-s="s" data-dt-m="m" data-dt-h="h" data-dt-second="second" data-dt-seconds="seconds" data-dt-minute="minute" data-dt-minutes="minutes" data-dt-hour="hour" data-dt-hours="hours" data-dt-abbr="%{number}%{symbol}" data-dt-short="%{day} %{month}" data-dt-long="%{day} %{month} %{year}" data-scribe="page:tweet" data-tweet-id="994714048594939909" id="twitter-widget-0" lang="en" data-twitter-event-id="1" style="overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; border-radius: 5px; max-width: 520px; position: relative;"><article class="MediaCard

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FOUR different calendars that have been put out by the EPA covering this day. None of them mention that Cardinal Pell was at the dinner. 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margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Pell was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/29/the-charges-against-cardinal-george-pell-explainer?CMP=share_btn_tw" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">charged with “historical sexual offenses”</a>&nbsp;from his time as an archbishop in Australia, including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-pell-church-sexual-abuse_us_5ae7bac2e4b055fd7fcefa99" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" charges="charges" of="of" sexual="sexual" abuse="abuse" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.huffingtonpost.com="www.huffingtonpost.com" entry="entry" george-pell-church-sexual-abuse_us_5ae7bac2e4b055fd7fcefa99="george-pell-church-sexual-abuse_us_5ae7bac2e4b055fd7fcefa99" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">charges of sexual abuse</a>. The charges were filed in June 2017, but newspapers reported he was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/world/australia/cardinal-george-pell-police.html" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" under="under" investigation="investigation" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.nytimes.com="www.nytimes.com" world="world" australia="australia" cardinal-george-pell-police.html="cardinal-george-pell-police.html" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">under investigation</a>&nbsp;in July 2016.</font></font></p></div><div id="inline-newsletter_placeholder" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px;"><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="6" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Pell, a known climate skeptic, has long called for debate surrounding climate science.&nbsp;</font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="7" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">“The appeal must be to the evidence,” he wrote in a <a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/be-prudent-with-climate-claims/news-story/b35294c8be77c91298c7530d4faf593b?sv=4933726b1f27af4150f12873cc354035" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" op-ed="op-ed" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.theaustralian.com.au="www.theaustralian.com.au" national-affairs="national-affairs" opinion="opinion" be-prudent-with-climate-claims="be-prudent-with-climate-claims" news-story="news-story" b35294c8be77c91298c7530d4faf593b="b35294c8be77c91298c7530d4faf593b" sv="4933726b1f27af4150f12873cc354035" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:7;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">2011 op-ed</a>, arguing that claims of global warming don’t always add up. “First of all we need adequate scientific explanations as a basis for our economic estimates. We also need history, philosophy, even theology and many will use, perhaps create, mythologies. But most importantly we need to distinguish which is which.”</font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="8" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Pruitt <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/06/05/pruitt-paris-climate-agreement-driven-regulation-litigation/" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" spoke="spoke" to="to" breitbart="Breitbart" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" http="http" www.breitbart.com="www.breitbart.com" radio="radio" pruitt-paris-climate-agreement-driven-regulation-litigation="pruitt-paris-climate-agreement-driven-regulation-litigation" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:8;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">spoke to Breitbart</a> about the red team-blue team debate idea in a June 2017 interview.&nbsp;</b></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="9" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">“The American people need to have that type of honest, open discussion, and it’s something that we hope to help provide as part of our leadership,” he said.</font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="10" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Other EPA&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/05/09/emails-show-epa-turned-to-climate-skeptics-to-craft-red-team-blue-team-exercise/?utm_term=.a1de3fa6f8d4" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" emails="emails" obtained="obtained" by="by" the="The" washington="Washington" post="Post" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.washingtonpost.com="www.washingtonpost.com" news="news" energy-environment="energy-environment" wp="wp" emails-show-epa-turned-to-climate-skeptics-to-craft-red-team-blue-team-exercise="emails-show-epa-turned-to-climate-skeptics-to-craft-red-team-blue-team-exercise" utm_term=".a1de3fa6f8d4" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:10;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="0" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">emails obtained by The Washington Post</a>&nbsp;show that EPA staff also reached out to several conservative groups about setting up the exercise in the weeks ahead of Pruitt’s comments.&nbsp;</font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="11" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">“[T]he ‘Red Team’ idea is superb,” Rodney Nichols, a science and technology policy consultant for the CO2 Coalition, said to Pruitt aide Lincoln Ferguson in a May 2017 email. “We will be glad to help the initiative in any way we can.”&nbsp;</font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="12" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Pruitt reportedly <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/385780-prominent-conservative-helped-plan-pruitt-trip-to-italy-report" target="_blank" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:12;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">recruited a friend, Leonard Leo</a>, head of the Federalist Society,&nbsp;to help him plan the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scott-pruitt-italy-first-class-travel_us_5ab1a110e4b054d118ddf913" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:12;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="15" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">trip to Italy</a>, and stuck taxpayers with a travel tab of at least $120,000 for the visit.</font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="13" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Pruitt has been under investigation for a wide variety of ethical lapses, including lavish spending on travel and security. The White House admitted for the first time on Thursday that the pile of allegations “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-pruitt/epa-chief-pruitts-ethics-issues-have-raised-concerns-white-house-idUSKBN1IB33R?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5af541cf04d30158f5d8b8af&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" have="have" raised="raised" some="some" concerns="concerns" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.reuters.com="www.reuters.com" article="article" us-usa-epa-pruitt="us-usa-epa-pruitt" epa-chief-pruitts-ethics-issues-have-raised-concerns-white-house-iduskbn1ib33r="epa-chief-pruitts-ethics-issues-have-raised-concerns-white-house-idUSKBN1IB33R" utm_campaign="trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5af541cf04d30158f5d8b8af&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:13;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="16" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">have raised some concerns</a>,” according to spokesman Raj Shah.</font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="14" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">“We’re hopeful and expecting that Administrator Pruitt will be able to answer those,”...</font></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">===</font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>