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Summary
Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, faced criticism during his Senate confirmation hearing for downplaying links between climate change and wildfires, calling concerns “hype.”
Democrats, including California Senator Alex Padilla, challenged his stance, citing catastrophic wildfires in the state.
Wright acknowledged climate change is real and caused by increased CO2 levels but defended expanded fossil fuel use, arguing energy sources have tradeoffs rather than being “clean” or “dirty.”
Despite opposition, Senate Republicans support his nomination, while scientists confirm climate change exacerbates wildfire frequency and severity.
Oh they know damn well it’s like that. It’s just that doing anything about it will cut into their political donors’ pockets. I don’t believe for a second that most climate change denying politicians actually believe the shit they are spewing. The oil industry knew over half a century ago that what they were doing is wrecking the planet.
That’s the insanity of it … I agree with you … I think most of these climate denying morons are very intelligent people but they use their intelligence to evil ends by doing their very best to deny scientific knowledge and humanity in general.
In the end they are dumber than the dumbest most ignorant person you can imagine because they’ve used their intelligence to promote and protect the dumbest ideas.
Plenty of people actually believe this. There’s gonna be people that just believe it, and people that are lying. Politicians are regular people, they just have a lot more narcissism than most people.