Energy Secretary Chris Wright took a break from attacking wind energy to discuss President Donald Trump’s energy policy in an interview with the Council on Foreign Affairs.

Leaning into the Trump administration’s fairytale narrative, Wright pushed the blatant lie that climate change isn’t a big issue and the result of humanity’s negative impact on the planet.

“One of the negative implications you hear all the time in the news is that tornadoes are getting worse, and hurricanes are worse, and floods and droughts, storms, they're more frequent and larger magnitude,” Wright said. “This is just simply untrue. Like in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the collections of data are there. That's not actually happening."

Extreme weather events have increased and the intensity of hur

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