There is plenty to be concerned about regarding Donald Trump’s current appointments and those who are being proposed. There is nepotism and conflict of interest galore.

There are the candidates who are being celebrated by white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan; a vice president who appears to be eager to re-institute torture as an interrogation technique, and more.

Perhaps the most dangerous are the candidates being proposed by the president-elect who question climate science.

Mr. Trump has famously stated, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” He is being advised by Myron Ebell, a high-profile climate skeptic.

Mr. Ebell is the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute – a D.C. think tank that promotes “limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.” He has accused climate scientists of “manipulating and falsifying the data.”

The New York Times describes Ebell as “one of the most vocal opponents” of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Mr. Ebell has no training or experience in any branch of science, yet he has been using the same anti-science techniques to cause the public to doubt global warning that he used when he worked as part of a team to make regulating the tobacco industry “politically unpalatable.” Mr. Ebell has had a long history in the business of trading in intentional ignorance for profit.

Unfortunately, he is likely to be nominated to be the head of the EPA.

While President-elect Trump has the right to propose, our elected representatives are under no obligation to accept any anti-science climate change deniers vying for jobs in the Trump administration.

Greg Rossel

Troy

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