The nation’s top organization for meteorology is refuting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s recent comments on the role of carbon dioxide in climate change.

Pruitt questioned mainstream climate science last week, saying in a CNBC interview, “I would not agree that [carbon dioxide is] a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”

The American Meteorological Society wrote a letter to Pruitt Monday saying he is wrong.

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“In reality, the world’s seven billion people are causing climate to change and our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the primary cause,” the group’s executive director, Keith Seitter, wrote in the letter.

“This is a conclusion based on the comprehensive assessment of scientific evidence. It is based on multiple independent lines of evidence that have been affirmed by thousands of independent scientists and numerous scientific institutions around the world,” Seitter said. “We are not familiar with any scientific institution with relevant subject matter expertise that has reached a different conclusion.”

He added that “mischaracterizing the science” is not a good place to start in constructive policy debates surrounding climate, and offered his organization’s assistance in helping Pruitt to understand the data.

Pruitt’s statement cause a firestorm among Democrats, liberal organizations and scientists, some of whom have charged that he does not belong at the EPA if he does not understand climate science.

Pruitt and his boss, President Trump, are planning a wholesale rescission of former President Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaGOP senator blocks Schumer resolution aimed at Biden probe as tensions run high D-Day for Trump: September 29 Obama says making a voting plan is part of 'how to quarantine successfully' MORE’s climate change policies at the EPA and elsewhere. Trump is expected this week to start the process of undoing Obama’s climate rule for power plants and his coal leasing moratorium for federal land.

Meanwhile, Pruitt plans to start the process soon of reconsidering Obama’s aggressive greenhouse gas standards for cars.