President-elect Trump’s Energy Secretary nominee, Chris Wright, is not a climate change denier as much as he is a global warming optimist.
This from newsmax.com.
The Wall Street Journal reported last year that Wright told PragerU:
It’s probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes.
Is it a crisis, is it the world’s greatest challenge, or a big threat to the next generation? No.
The Liberty Energy fracking CEO is breaking from even oil executives warning about the effects of global warming and climate change.
Wright said:
A warming planet can increase plant growth, making the world greener, boosting agriculture, and reducing temperature-caused death.
Further:
There is no climate crisis.
And he added that the Paris climate deal has:
[Emboldened] political actors with anti-fossil-fuel agendas.
A Trump-Vance transition official told the Journal:
[Trump’s energy secretary nominee] intends to deliver on President Trump’s pledge to unleash affordable and reliable American energy to power homes, businesses, cars and factories, and secure energy independence.
According to Wright:
The climate ‘cult’ is ignoring the fact slight warming of global temperatures is not necessarily a bad thing for humanity, much less a threat, and should be treated honestly and evaluated as trade-offs, not as a religion or a cult, which unfortunately it’s become.
Wright told PragerU:
A little bit warmer isn’t a threat.
If we were 5, 7, 8, 10 degrees [Celsius] warmer, that would be meaningful changes to the planet.
Wright, who studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has remained engaged in data much differently than climate alarmists.
He told the Journal:
A general approach in our industry has been to, you know, lay low, and too often, I think, say what people want to hear.
According to Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and Fossil Future:
The use of climate change reports and their own words, with data and evidence, has flipped environmental, social, and governance investing.
Further:
Chris really was one of the people who flipped ESG [Environmental, Social and Governance] on its head.
