Climate Denial Pervades Trump White House, But It's Hitting Some Limits

"The administration's culture of denialism and support for fossil fuels has pushed rollbacks of policies meant to protect public health, safety and the environment."

"Five years after Donald Trump's infamous "hoax" tweet, in which he called climate change a fiction developed by the Chinese, the president, again on Twitter, reacted to a recent cold snap by saying "we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming"—this, at the tail end of a year that was the United States' third warmest on record.

Trump's musings have gone from fringe fantasy to official obfuscation, enshrining a denialism that runs through the core of his administration, from the top down.

Yet signs are beginning to surface that suggest this refusal to accept even the basics of climate science may come up against some limits."

Georgina Gustin reports for InsideClimate News January 8, 2018.