PhotoIn a way, we should be grateful to Limbaugh for at least raising the subject of climate change and its relationship to hurricanes, if only because it’s a topic the Trump administration is trying desperately to avoid. Needless to say, for people like Pruitt there will never be a good time to talk about climate. True, there weren’t many other influential people specifically rejecting warnings about Irma, but denying science while attacking scientists as politically motivated and venal is standard operating procedure on the American right. When Donald Trump declared climate change a “hoax,” he was just being an ordinary Republican. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAnd thanks to Trump’s electoral victory, know-nothing, anti-science conservatives are now running the U.S. government.

Source: New York Times September 11, 2017 07:21 UTC