2024December12
Future Secretary of Energy Chris Wright: “Climate Change is Good”?
10 hours ago David Middleton
Trump’s pick for energy secretary thinks climate change is good, actually
Chris Wright, a Big Oil CEO picked by Trump to lead the Department of Energy, says the planet could stand to be a little warmer.
Dec. 9, 2024, 4:00 PM CST
By Ja’han Jones
Over the years, the arguments against taking meaningful action against climate change have evolved from raising doubts about the science to claiming that rising temperatures might not be caused by human activity. Now President-elect Donald Trump is pushing it in an entirely new direction: Climate change is good, actually.
Trump, who has mused that rising sea levels might lead to more beachfront property, announced recently that his pick for energy secretary is Chris Wright, a Big Oil CEO who has downplayed the risks of rising global temperatures and argued that climate change might actually be good for the world.
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Per the WSJ:
A fracking executive, Wright acknowledges that burning fossil fuels is contributing to rising temperatures. But he also says climate change makes the planet greener by increasing plant growth, boosts agricultural productivity and likely reduces the number of temperature-related deaths annually. “It’s probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes,” he told conservative media nonprofit PragerU last year, referring to climate change. “Is it a crisis, is it the world’s greatest challenge, or a big threat to the next generation? No.”
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/12/future-secretary-of-energy-chris-wright-climate-change-is-good/
