Trump Names Climate Change Denier As Energy Sec

The Associated Press reports:

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named Chris Wright, head of a Denver-based oilfield service company who has disputed the role of climate change in causing extreme weather, to head the Energy Department.

Wright, a major Republican fundraiser, would be one of the loudest voices in the administration against the confirmed science that greenhouse gas emissions are raising the planet’s temperature and causing an upsurge in extreme weather.

The Energy Department will likely play a critical role supporting the fossil fuel industry under Trump. In a video uploaded to LinkedIn last year, Chris Wright said: “There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”

Read the full article. In the video below, Wright declares that “floods, droughts, and tornadoes are

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