Trumps pick to run White House environmental office says more CO2 is good for humanity
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by Mark Hand at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-nominates-ceq-head-e02da9396d1a/
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President Donald Trump nominated Kathleen Hartnett White, a fringe player in the climate debate who promotes the idea that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good for humanity, to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality on Thursday.
Hartnett White, a senior fellow and director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the fossil-fuel funded Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), has questioned the scientific consensus that human activities are the major driver of catastrophic climate change. She has described efforts to combat climate change as primarily an attack on the fossil fuel industry.
Hartnett White’s hard-line position that carbon dioxide emissions can be good represents an extreme stance, even among Republicans who refuse to concede the role of humans in climate change. The best science indicates not only that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for global warming, but that global warming is widely expected to have catastrophic effects for humanity if it is not curbed.
If confirmed by the Senate, Hartnett White would join a growing list of climate deniers in the Trump administration.
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