Mike Pompeo As Secretary Of State: A Full-Throated Climate Liar Setting Global Climate Policy

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But while Tillerson, the former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO, raised environmentalists' hopes last year with his belief in man-made climate change and support for continued U.S. involvement in the Paris climate accord, Pompeo has a history of disputing that humans play a significant role in global warming.

During his Senate confirmation hearing in January, Pompeo said President Obama's suggestion that climate change is a top-tier national security threat was "ignorant, dangerous and absolutely unbelievable." And as a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee before his nomination to the CIA post, Pompeo blasted Obama's "radical climate change agenda" during the 2015 climate talks in Paris and voted to scrap U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan.

"If anything, Pompeo's record of climate science denial and opposition to renewable wind power puts him well to the right of Secretary Tillerson, who as a former CEO of Exxon had to at least admit climate science and the viability of renewable energy," said Paul Bledsoe, a strategic adviser at the Progressive Policy Institute and a former Clinton White House climate adviser. Bledsoe said the Trump administration is "trending to the far-right fringe" in picking Pompeo and is "dominated by false views on climate and energy that simply would not be tolerated even by major publicly traded oil and gas corporations."

But Pompeo has been more tight-lipped about climate science in recent months, dodging pointed questions. During his confirmation hearing, he declined to answer whether he agreed with the scientific consensus that humans are driving climatic changes (E&E Daily, Jan. 13). When asked by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in his confirmation hearing if he had any reason to doubt then-CIA Director John Brennan's findings that climate change is driving global instability, Pompeo said he was unfamiliar with the analysis.

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