Anybody who did high school debate knows it’s the worst way to tackle climate change

Anybody who spent time in the low-stakes-but-ego-ridden world of high school debate knows: Debate is a terrible way to address a topic with any semblance of subtlety. 

That goes double for any topic related to science. 

Climate change, then, would make for a particularly terrible topic for an open debate. It’s no coincidence then that Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and an avowed climate denier, has been pushing for a “red team/blue team” debate around the science of climate change.

Pruitt does a good job of making the idea sound reasonable enough.

“There are lots of questions that have not been asked and answered,” Pruitt said. “Who better to do that than a group of scientists … getting together and having a robust discussion for all the world to see.” Read more…

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