{"id":2255,"date":"2018-02-07T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/07\/dnc-on-scott-pruitts-assertion-global-warming-is-good\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:30:00","slug":"dnc-on-scott-pruitts-assertion-global-warming-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-scott-pruitts-assertion-global-warming-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Scott Pruitt\u2019s Assertion Global Warming is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>DNC Deputy Communications Director Sabrina Singh issued the following statement on Scott Pruitt&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060073119\">comments<\/a> stating that global warming is not &ldquo;necessarily a bad thing.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wrong. Scott Pruitt just made the honor roll in the Trump administration&rsquo;s school of alternative facts. His latest reckless comments alleging that global warming could be a good thing for our planet are not only absurd, they are an affront to the entire concept of science. Sadly, this dangerous disregard for the truth isn&rsquo;t surprising. This is the same administration that forced the United States to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and whose CDC issued guidance instructing staff to avoid the words &lsquo;evidence-based.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Deputy Communications Director Sabrina Singh issued the following statement on Scott Pruitt&rsquo;s comments stating that global warming is not &ldquo;necessarily a bad thing.&rdquo; &nbsp; &ldquo;Wrong. Scott Pruitt just made the honor roll in the Trump administration&rsquo;s school of alternative facts. His latest reckless comments alleging that global warming could be a good thing for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on Scott Pruitt\u2019s Assertion Global Warming is Good - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-scott-pruitts-assertion-global-warming-is-good\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-02-07T18:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-scott-pruitts-assertion-global-warming-is-good\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-scott-pruitts-assertion-global-warming-is-good\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on Scott Pruitt\u2019s Assertion Global Warming is Good - 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