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Trump interior secretary pick on climate change: 'I dont believe its a hoax'
Note: He may not buy the conspiracy theories, but he still equivocates.______________________________________________________________________
Source: The Guardian
Trump interior secretary pick on climate change: 'I don’t believe it’s a hoax'
Ben Jacobs in Washington
Wednesday 18 January 2017 00.28 GMT
Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of interior, Ryan Zinke, distanced himself from the president-elect on Tuesday, saying “the climate is changing. The debate is what is that influence and what can we do.”
Zinke, a two-term congressman for Montana, had been asked by Bernie Sanders about Trump’s infamous 2012 tweet where the real estate developer described climate change as “created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive”.
Zinke, a former navy Seal, responded by stating matter of factly, “I don’t believe it’s a hoax.”
The statement came in a hearing on his nomination held by the Senate energy and natural resources committee on Tuesday.
However, the Trump cabinet nominee insisted he wasn’t “a climate science expert” and stated his belief in “being prudent” towards what he characterized as “a lot of debate on both sides of the aisle”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/17/trump-interior-secretary-pick-ryan-zinke-climate-change
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