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The day the 45th US president assumed office the White House’s climate change web page was removed. It contained the nation’s plan for addressing the problem. Soon after the president appointed Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency in that country. Mr Pruitt does not believe in climate change and referred to himself as a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda. The president also appointed Rex Tillerson, a former head of Exxon Mobil as State Secretary. Mr Tillerson presumably did believe in climate change, since his company had studied it for some time, however he and his company devoted a lot of energy to downplaying or covering up the issue so that profits would not be affected.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://imaginemyrelief.blog/2017/09/05/the-lost-episode-a-bad-week-for-the-skeptics/