Interior Secy Promises Cheaper Cars, "Inconceivable" New Magic Technologies, Lies About Climate Science (Just For Lulz)
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum cast doubt on climate science Thursday, the same day that the Trump administration rolled back foundational U.S. climate policy through its repeal of the endangerment finding. Burgum called the energy transition an ideological “fantasy” that was based on “incomplete data” from models that track climate indicators during remarks at event held by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank. “I come from a belief system that science is never settled,” Burgum said, referring to the conclusions of scientists across the globe that climate change is dangerously changing the planet.
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“It was based on the idea that somehow the existential threat to the world was a degree of [temperature] change in the year 2100,” Burgum said. “People say, ‘Oh, it’s settled science. We can’t have a discussion about whether these forecasts may or may not be accurate, or there may or may not be cause and effect.’” Burgum added that he expects there to be inventions “that are inconceivable to us” in the coming decades that could address warming issues. “I don’t believe it’s a straight line between now and the year 2100,” he said. “Why would we concede that the existential threat is a theoretical computer model that, in my mind, was based on incomplete data and that was just driven ideologically?”
The overwhelming majority of scientists from a range of disciplines have concluded through decades of research that greenhouse gases are warming the climate, which has begun to cause more extreme weather events and could have catastrophic consequences for global health, food systems and ecosystems in the coming decades.
The endangerment finding, which dates from 2009 during the Obama administration, undergirded a range of policies to limit greenhouse gases that cause climate pollution. The EPA under Trump has reversed all of that, with Administrator Lee Zeldin referring to it as the “holy grail of the climate change religion.” Burgum said Thursday that repealing the endangerment finding could “lower the price of a car by 2,300 bucks almost immediately” by reducing requirements for manufacturers.
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