John Hickenlooper Questions Trump Energy Secretary Nominee Chris Wright About Climate Change

At today's Senate Energy Committee hearing, Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) questioned Chris Wright, President-elect Trump's nominee for Energy Secretary.

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[FifthBoy]

Such BS. It’s all about carbon tax and depleting American energy.

[stevedawson]

Hickenlooper looked like he aged 20 years in the last year

[stuntgirl-therachelvande]

this guy talking has not watched the ocean temperature for the last 5 years, I have. the coral reefs are dying due to heat. stop cutting trees, we need the heat sink

[tadsoper]

This is not climate change, it's weather, and it's been going on in CA forever. The dry air and strong Santa anna winds along with sumac, eucalyptus, palms and under brush are a fire fighter's nightmare.

[TheSpookydog]

Omg were so screwed here in Colorado. Help. SOS.

[jerrywitt]

Climate change - back when I was younger we called that the 4 seasons

[Duecentral]

Climate change? Hasn’t it always changed?

[justsmy]

I hope Wright is not a complete "Global Warming Weenie"! I was hoping he would tell Hickenlooper that the fires in CA are not due to global warming and that they are due to severe mismanagement of the forests, the water shed/storage system and the fact that CA built a city in what was a desert, irrigated it for decades and now has practically outlawed irrigation, watering lawns, controlled burns, cutting fire breaks in forest and cleaning up underbrush!

[terrywagner]

This guy needs to go back to a science class. The comment from justmy5677 makes more sense about California than what that yo yo Chris wright is saying. It was a fire not global warming, not coming from smoke stacks, car emissions like exhaust pipes. My husband was the science buff not me, but when I read I know enough to know if it is right, or wrong.

[mountains]

What's hilarious is that Hickenlooper used to be the mayor of Denver and now Senator of Colorado. Chris Wright is the CEO of a oil company headquartered in Denver, Colorado but they pretend they've never met

[clydesuckfinger]

Department of Energy is another agency that needs to go the way of the do-do bird.

[cbail]

horrible Colorado Governor, horrible politician, in the vein of Harris/biden

[EdwinSherwood]

Man I can’t wait for kash patel, he’s a gangster

[tsc]

Windmills in the ocean have been killing whales

[stuntgirl-therachelvande]

too late, it is already here and was here 3 years ago, who put these people in charge of our planet?

[terihaynes-yfjb]

He has no idea. Can't answer the question, where's the plans. Do you have concepts and concerns.

[stuntgirl-therachelvande]

the movie The Day after Tomorrow is now a documentary.

[chris]

America should be a leader, and I think President "Drill baby Drill!" Is firmly aligned with that position.

Yeah, and my mother was an aardvark and my father was (clearly) Klingon...