Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific Report - The New York Times
In publishing the assessment, White House officials made a calculation that Mr. Trump’s core base of supporters most likely would not care that its findings are so at odds with the president’s statements and policies.
That view is supported by Steven J. Milloy, a member of Mr. Trump’s E.P.A. transition team who runs the website junkscience.com, which is aimed at casting doubt on the established science of human-caused climate change. “We don’t care,” he said. “In our view, this is made-up hysteria anyway.”
From Mann, Michael. The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (Kindle Locations 1248-1257). Columbia University Press. Kindle Edition:
[Steven J.] Milloy is no scientist, but he’s darned good at playing one on television — Fox News, to be specific — where he is presented as an environmental science expert. Milloy, in this capacity, regularly calls out the “junk science” implicating tobacco products in human health ailments, pesticides in environmental ailments, and fossil fuels in our current planetary ailment.
What Milloy has failed to disclose while busy presenting himself as an independent “junk science” expert on Fox News is that, as noted earlier, he has accepted payments from Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil, and Syngenta for his advocacy efforts. When journalist Paul Thacker reported these facts in the New Republic in 2006, he also reported the reaction from Fox News, which claimed to be unaware of the financial ties and gave Milloy the lightest of slaps on the wrist, conceding only that “any affiliation he had should have been disclosed.”
