One Nation senator joins new world order of climate change denial

 One Nation’s Queensland senator Malcolm
Roberts  attended a gathering with an
attendee list that reads like a who’s
who of the climate science denial world.

A key figure picked to prepare the US federal environment agency for life under a Donald Trump administration has met in Washington DC with some of the world’s most notorious and longest-serving climate science deniers, including One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts.

Myron Ebell, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), was picked by the now president-elect to lead the Environmental Protection Agency “transition team” back in September.

Trump has pledged to strip many powers from the EPA to boost fossil fuel production.

Ebell has spent two decades trying to undermine the science linking dangerous climate change to fossil fuel burning.

E&E News reported that Ebell was at one meeting hosted by the CEI and held in the hearing room of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee.

The EPW committee is chaired by Senator James Inhofe who, like Trump, has described human-caused climate change as a hoax.

The meeting was not open to the public or the press, E&E News reported, with Ebell refusing to give any details.

Read Graham Readfearn’s story in The Guardian - “One Nation senator joins new world order of climate change denial.”