Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for energy secretary, is not a climate change denier but a global warming optimist. [emphasis, links added]
“There are probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes,” Wright told PragerU last year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“Is this a crisis, the world's greatest challenge, or a huge threat to the next generation? No.
Liberty Energy's fracking chief has even broken down warnings from oil company executives about the effects of global warming and climate change.
Wright said global warming could boost plant growth, make the world a greener place, boost agriculture and reduce temperature-related deaths.
“There is no climate crisis,” Wright said, adding The Paris climate agreement has inspired “political actors who oppose the fossil fuel agenda”.
Trump's Energy Secretary nominee 'intends to deliver on President Trump's promises' Unleashing affordable and reliable American energy to power homes, businesses, cars and factories and ensuring energy independence,a Trump-Vance transition official told the Wall Street Journal.
The climate “cult” ignores the fact that slight warming of global temperatures is not necessarily a bad thing for humanity, let alone a threat, and that “the trade-offs should be treated honestly and evaluated, not as a religion or cult , unfortunately, it has become,” Wright said.
“A little warmth is not a threat;“He told PragerU. “If we are 5, 7, 8, 10 degrees [Celsius] warming, which will produce meaningful changes for the planet.
Wright, who studied at MIT, approaches data very differently than climate alarmists.
“The common approach in our industry is to, you know, keep a low profile and, I think, often say what people want to hear,” Wright told the Wall Street Journal.
Climate change reporting and their own words, along with the use of data and evidence, has transformed environmental, social and governance investing, Alex Epstein, author of Fossil Fuels and the Ethical Case for a Fossil Future.
“Chris is really one of the people disrupting ESG,” he said.
Top photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr
Read more news
