Trump’s former EPA chief Scott Pruitt – previously the administration’s most vocal climate denier – questioned whether humans and their carbon dioxide pollution were the main cause of global warming. No further news has come of that effort, and the National Security Council declined to comment on any possible plans. People he has worked with believe humans and their carbon dioxide pollution couldn’t possibly be causing worse droughts, fires and floods. The CO2 Coalition receives funding from the Mercer family, a top Trump donor that also gave more than $2m to organisations denying climate science in 2016. But he added: “To me it seems like the important things are whether his views about climate science are rational and how he wants to exert influence.”

Source: The Guardian June 21, 2019 06:00 UTC