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

Get the Full StoryAnybody 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...More about Climate, Science, Climate Change, Scott Pruitt, and Business

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