"Trump’s Gang of Climate Deniers Has Grown Into an Army"

"He keeps picking deniers for top government positions: NASA might soon be run by a GOP congressman who blames global warming on the sun."

"It became clear early in Donald Trump’s presidency that many of his top officials shared a common trait: They were climate deniers. Though 'climate denial starts at the top,' the New York Times’ Coral Davenport wrote in March, it was trickling down into a variety of high-influence position: Vice President Mike Pence, who once called global warming a 'myth' disproved by the fact that his home state once had a cold winter; then-senior advisor Steve Bannon, whose news site Breitbart remains one of the top destinations for climate misinformation; Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who believes carbon dioxide is not a 'primary contributor' to global warming; and Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who believes the same myth, saying in June, 'No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.'"

Emily Atkin reports for the New Republic October 30, 2017.

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