Policy experts debate Trump energy plan
Several panelists dismissed concern about climate change. Bradley, for instance, called it “global lukewarming.”
“I don’t think we’re in mortal peril here” because of climate change, commented Catrina Rorke, senior fellow and energy policy director for the Washington, D. C.–based R Street Institute, which promotes free markets and limited government. The Trump administration “so far is unpacking some of the more problematic aspects of the Obama administration’s Climate Action Plan and will hopefully put us on the right track.”
Morris countered that “just saying that [climate change] is a hoax is not a tenable diplomatic approach.” In international forums such as the G20, “you have to engage when countries care deeply about climate change,” she added.
