Obama’s EPA Administrator Can’t Say Whether Global Temperatures Are Increasing

From the Free Beacon:

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy, under questioning by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), could not personally say whether global temperatures were increasing Thursday during a hearing of the Environment and Public Works Committee. 

“I just look at what the climate scientists tell me,” she said. “I don’t dissect that information in ways that would impress you, but certainly I’m not qualified.” 

Under the Obama administration, the EPA is pushing for a climate action plan aimed at imposing more regulations on the coal industry. 

The National Journal reports McCarthy denied claims that a delay in the formal publication of climate-change rules for power plants “was political and designed to avoid completing the regulations before the 2014 elections.” 

On several occasions President Obama has asserted that the “temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago.” In fact, global temperatures have not increased in the last 17 years.