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Environmental Protection Agency leadership is encouraging staff to promote skepticism of well-established science showing humans are causing the climate to change, according to news reports on a leaked memo. 

The instructions came as part of a list of eight talking points distributed to EPA employees Tuesday night intended to "develop consistent messages about EPA's climate adaptation efforts." The Huffington Post 

The portions of the memo suggesting EPA leadership want staff to sow discord on human-caused climate change science are spelled out in three of the talking points: 

This continues a line of anti-climate-science action from Scott Pruitt's EPA, which has included the 

removal of climate change data from agency websites

 carbon dioxide is the primary cause of global warming, which he has said 

. President Trump has also shown skepticism over what role humans play in climate change. 

Both men's viewpoints are contradicted in a 

major government review of climate science

 from November that concluded it's "extremely likely" humans are the "dominant cause" of global warming.

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Talking points given to agency employees say "clear gaps remain" in scientific understanding of human's impact on climate change, contradicting the scientific community's general consensus.

Leak: EPA tells staff to promote 'gaps' in climate science, contradicting evidence

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