EPA cuts mentions of humans from webpage on climate change causes

Source: The Hill

12/10/25 5:42 PM ET


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed several mentions of human activity on a webpage related to the causes of climate change. Last week, the EPA quietly updated a page on its site outlining causes of global warming.

Previously, the page said: “This record shows that the climate varies naturally over a wide range of time scales, but this variability does not explain the observed warming since the 1950s. Rather, it is extremely likely (> 95%) that human activities have been the dominant cause of that warming.” It also previously contained a significant section related to the impacts of human-caused greenhouse gases, stating, “burning fossil fuels changes the climate more than any other human activity.”

Now, the only mention of humans on the causes of climate change page is in a section related to volcanos, stating: “Volcanic particles from a single eruption do not produce long-term climate change because they remain in the atmosphere for a much shorter time than greenhouse gases. In addition, human activities emit more than 100 times as much carbon dioxide as volcanoes each year.”

The page does also say that “recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone.” An EPA spokesperson said via email that the agency “no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5643353-epa-climate-change-global-warming/