Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Donald Trump wants to dismantle America's
climate infrastructure and has already
moved on that.

Donald Trump has selected one of the best-known climate skeptics to lead his U.S. EPA transition team, according to two sources close to the campaign.

Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, is spearheading Trump’s transition plans for EPA, the sources said.

The Trump team has also lined up leaders for its Energy Department and Interior Department teams. Republican energy lobbyist Mike McKenna is heading the DOE team; former Interior Department solicitor David Bernhardt is leading the effort for that agency, according to sources close to the campaign.

Ebell is a well-known and polarizing figure in the energy and environment realm. His participation in the EPA transition signals that the Trump team is looking to drastically reshape the climate policies the agency has pursued under the Obama administration. Ebell’s role is likely to infuriate environmentalists and Democrats but buoy critics of Obama’s climate rules.

Read The Scientific American story - “Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition.”

We are the 'yellow jersey' wearers in the climate change race

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n Tour de France terms, Australia has the climate change yellow jersey.

Australia has the "yellow jersey"
when  it comes to being
skeptical about climate change.

Yes, it is in the lead, it leads the world in that it has the most who deny climate science and refuse to acknowledge what human behaviour is doing to earth’s climate system.

EcoWatch reports: “Most people would probably hazard a guess at the U.S., what with its preponderance of climate-science-denying think tanks, conservative television and radio hosts, and politicians who think it’s all a hoax.

“But a new study that analyzed identical surveys carried out across 14 industrialized nations has found that when it comes to climate science denial, Australia tops the pile.

“Published in the journal Global Environmental Change, the study found that 17 percent of Australians were “climate skeptics.”

Read the EcoWatch story - “Which Country Has the Most Climate Deniers?”