Climate idiocy from Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright

 

Chris Wright is the name of the current head of the Department of Energy.

And has been stated many times before, he is SO WRONG about climate change.

This New York Times article was only a short time ago, but it demonstrates this truth quite well.

Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change

Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”

"He [Wright] called the 2015 Paris agreement, in which the United States and nearly every other country pledged to reduce greenhouse gases, “silly.”

“Climate change, for impacting the quality of your life, is not incredibly important,” Mr. Wright said. “In fact, if it wasn’t in the news, in the media, you wouldn’t know.”

(The people of Jamaica know now, and they didn't have to read the news. The people of Pakistan live it every day.) 

Hundreds of the world’s top scientists gathered by the United Nations have found that greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil and gas are heating the planet and already having profound effects on communities by increasing the frequency and intensity of heat waves, wildfires, drought, floods and other extreme weather.

Earlier this year Mr. Wright handpicked a group of people who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to write a report downplaying global warming. On Friday he argued that renewable energy projects developed with the aim of reducing fossil fuels were not beneficial to the United States."

And despite saying that, renewable energy is the cheapest way to add capacity for America's, and the world's, increasing energy needs.

No matter what they say, it's happening -- and it's getting worse.