Time to Grill Rex Tillerson on Climate Change

Rex Tillerson - his suggestion
that climate change warrants
"thoughtful action" is "dog
whistling" for doing nothing.

The dominant issues at Wednesday’s hearing on the nomination of Rex Tillerson, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, for secretary of state are likely to be Mr. Tillerson’s ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin and any potential conflicts of interest arising from Exxon’s extensive global operations. But members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be sadly delinquent if they do not press him on the issue of climate change.

Mr. Tillerson, who concedes that climate change is a problem, has been seen as a bright spot in the bleak lineup of climate deniers that Donald Trump has named to other cabinet positions. But that’s a very low bar, and if Mr. Tillerson has any hope of raising the issue to the prominence it deserves, and changing the mind of a president-elect who has already called global warming a “hoax,” he will have to be tough and tenacious. And he won’t be unless he really cares.

Read The New York Times story - “Time to Grill Rex Tillerson on Climate Change.”