Al Franken gets climate-denying Trump appointee to admit his talking point is nonsense

[turbinetree]

Source: Think Progress

Sadly, it appears that no matter how obscure a nominee is to the Trump administration, he is expected to repeat the same tired talking point about the human role in climate change — namely, that the climate is always changing and humans play some role, but darned if you know what it is.

Yet another Trump appointee has been exposed by Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) as a climate change (and science) denier during confirmation hearings — in this case, Bruce J. Walker, who has been picked to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.

“Mr. Walker, do you believe that human activity accounts for the majority of climate change since the Industrial Revolution,” Franken asked during Walker’s nomination hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Full video of hearing is here, and Franken’s questioning begins at about 1:07:33)

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/al-franken-exposes-another-climate-science-denying-trump-appointee-9b6a4c8b1164/

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https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings-and-business-meetings?ID=2C2D732D-82CD-43DC-BB9B-FED355A4BE69


And were going to watch / see the turtle confirm, this unqualified jerk, and McConnell should be Impeached

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. He has an engineering degree and industry experience, so if anything he's overqualified for the job.

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 02, 2017

***** Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts

....
Bruce J. Walker of New York to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy, Electricity, Delivery and Energy Reliability. Mr. Walker is the founder of Modern Energy Insights, Inc., which specializes in evaluating risk for utilities’ critical electric infrastructure. He has more than 25 years of electric utility experience, previously working at National Grid as the Vice President of Asset Strategy and Policy. Earlier, he worked for Consolidated Edison of New York, where he last held the position of Director of Corporate Emergency Management and served on the Biological Chemical Weapons Response Team. He has served as a member of DOE’s Electricity Advisory Committee, DOE’s Advisory Committee for the Mega-Watt scale integration lab, and was a member of GridWise Alliance, Inc. He is the co-founder of the Global Smart Grid Federation. Mr. Walker is the Deputy County Executive for the County of Putnam and is the Acting Energy Sector Chief for the Hudson Valley Infragard. He received his law degree from Pace University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. In world where tRump is not NORMALIZED, NOBODY is really overqualified for important decision-making

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. I have a new term for this kind of apointment

"Malqualified".

[FakeNoose]

7. It says he has a law degree

...in addition to the Bachelors in Electrical Engineering. So yeah this guy has more qualifications than Cheeto does.

I think Senator Franken wanted to find out whether Walker thinks for himself, or simply regurgitates the party line on climate change. Very few Republicans will admit to thinking about anything these days.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Al is always prepared and his staff does their homework.

I wouldn't attempt to lie to him about anything.

[NurseJackie]

3. AL FRANKEN totally ROCKS!! He's one of us... A *TRUE* DEMOCRAT... and,

... he makes me proud to be a Democrat.

[More_Cowbell]

5. +1111111111111111

He's great