ExxonKnews
November 26, 2024
President-elect Trump’s second administration promises to bring old-school climate denial back to the federal government. His pick for energy secretary, Chris Wright, is an oil and fracking executive who has claimed, falsely, that “there is no climate crisis,” “there’s been no increase in extreme weather in the roughly 100 years of datasets we have,” and “the annual deaths globally from extreme weather events have dropped 95 percent over the last century.” Every member of Trump’s potential cabinet has downplayed or misrepresented the climate crisis in some way, according to an analysis by HEATED; his new pick for U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, sued BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but also challenged the Clean Power Plan as Florida’s Attorney General and has refused to discuss climate change in the past. And some former Trump administration officials are pushing for a “debate” about the reality and severity of climate change between climate scientists and the few researchers who deny the problem, E&E has reported.
