The following letter to the editor was submitted to, but did not appear in, the Minneapolis Star Tribune March 10, 2017:
Did I just mishear a comment by Scott Pruitt, the new GOP approved EPA Administrator, on CNBC regarding his disbelief in the science of global warming and the impact of human generated greenhouse gases on the planet?
I thought I heard him say: “I think that measuring with precision that the earth is round is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of roundness, if any. So no, I would not agree that it’s primarily round as we see it. We don’t know that its round yet. We need to continue the debate if its round and continue the review and the analysis.”
This reminds me of a line from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl – “You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.”
J. Albers