Energy Secretary Licks Trump Anus W. Suggestion That He'll Receive "Climate Hero" Award Soon

“I’m going to suggest you might, five years from now, give President Trump the hero of the climate award, because in the Trump administration, you will see more downward movement in greenhouse gas emissions globally and in the United States than any other leader in history.” —U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, at a New York Times Climate Week event Wednesday

A golden award, no doubt, to match the numerous Nobel Peace Prize medals Trump will have received by five years from now along with the Nobel for Economics he’ll get for making tariffs great again. I’m not really a gambling man, but I’ll wager Wright $100 and give him 5:1 odds that no such climate prize will be awarded Trump unless the American Petroleum Institute funds and presents it.

You may have been so horrified and embarrassed and infuriated by the other gawdawful parts of the speech with which Trump hogged three other speakers’ time at the United Nations Tuesday that you missed the 10 minutes spent on climate. In case that’s so, know that Wright’s remark was a follow-up to the president’s saying the “‘carbon footprint’ is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they’re heading down a path of total destruction.” Quite the performance. I wrote about that here if you can stomach it.

Given his history, Wright’s hero remark is scarcely a surprise. After all, in what seemed like an audition for a stand-up comedy act back in March, he said, “The Trump administration intends to be much more scientific and mathematically literate.” And it wouldn’t be a surprise if the first time the idea for such an award came into the secretary’s possession it was delivered oh-so-modestly from Trump’s lips.

Wright asserts he’s not a climate science denier and in practically the same breath says there is no climate crisis. He says he’s a “climate realist,” which persuaded 10 Senate Democrats to vote to confirm his seat on the Cabinet. He agrees the planet is being warmed by carbon emissions but shrugs this off as the “trade-off” from modernizing. He’s adopted one of the climate crisis deniers’ keystone fallback positions — that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a good thing, spurring the growth of more greenery. That’s a stance Emily Atkins at Heated demolished. As did this: Plants Are Losing Their Ability to Absorb Carbon Dioxide as Emissions Rise.

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