The segment then featured a clip of U.S. climate envoy John Podesta saying, “In January, we are going to inaugurate a president whose relationship to climate change is captured by the words ‘hoax’ and ‘fossil fuels.’ He has vowed to dismantle our environmental safeguards and once again withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.”
After guest Alex Epstein, pro-fossil fuel advocate, suggested that humans “can thrive at many different levels of CO2 in the atmosphere,” Duffy went on to ask, “If you say the climate’s changing, is it coming from CO2 or is it coming from the sun? Where is — why is the climate changing?”
“And you would then say, well, let’s have a rigorous debate about what’s causing it or what are all the factors that bring us to climate change,” Duffy continued. “And when you have the left that says we’re going to shut down alternative science or science that challenges our narrative, it — I think it makes people go, well, maybe there’s a different set of priorities here as opposed to climate change. Maybe it actually is an agenda of control.”
Duffy’s climate denial talking points seemingly reflect the president-elect’s attitude toward the issue. At a November 3 rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Trump said, “We don’t have a global warming problem. … It’s not global warming because, at certain points, it starts to cool a little bit.” He then repeated the false claim and right-wing media lie that wind turbines (which he referred to as “windmills”) are causing whales to “wash ashore and die,” adding, “It’s all a big hoax.”
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