{"id":1337770,"date":"2022-02-24T13:37:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1337770"},"modified":"2022-02-24T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:38:04","slug":"white-house-to-hold-first-ever-climate-denial-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-to-hold-first-ever-climate-denial-roundtable\/","title":{"rendered":"White House To Hold First-Ever \u2018Climate Denial\u2019 Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-to-hold-first-ever-climate-denial-roundtable%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1337770&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will hold a roundtable Thursday to discuss how officials can combat climate denialism and delay, The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>The OSTP will host nearly 20 climate scientists, social scientists, economists and engineers from across the country for the first-of-its-kind event, the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2022\/02\/24\/white-house-science-office-hold-first-ever-event-countering-climate-change-denial-delay\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, we see tangible evidence of climate change all around us with sea-level rise, increases in extreme heat, increases in drought, wildfires, ocean acidification (and) floods,\u201d OSTP Deputy Director for Climate and Environment Jane Lubchenco told the Post, confirming the roundtable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing now is a result of past inaction. That past inaction is haunting us,\u201d Lubchenco said. \u201cAnd so the question is, how do we accelerate effective action?\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/21\/joe-biden-administration-oil-gas-leases-delay-social-cost\/\">(RELATED: Biden Administration Quietly Delays, Stops Oil And Gas Leasing After Legal Defeat)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lubchenco said that the event will not focus on promoting President Joe Biden\u2019s Build Back Better plan, which includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/16\/green-new-deal-handouts-subsidies-democrats-joe-biden-budget-energy-climate-change\/\">major investment in green energy<\/a>, but will instead investigate why some are hesitant to act on emissions reductions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo deny the urgency is to deny the science,\u201d\u00a0Naomi Oreskes, a science historian who will attend the roundtable, told the Post. \u201cWe have so much evidence now that serious extreme weather events like wildfires and floods and hurricanes have become substantially worsened by climate change. And it\u2019s hurting people right here and right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7379769\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7379769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting on Tuesday at the White House. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oreskes is a <a href=\"https:\/\/climateaccountability.org\/pdf\/Climate%20Accountability%20Rpt%20Oct12.pdf\">long-time<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/24\/science\/public-campaign-against-exxon-has-roots-in-a-2012-meeting.html\">climate advocate<\/a> who has argued that the fossil fuel industry uses disinformation tactics similar to those employed by the tobacco industry in the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 16, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/17\/joe-biden-white-house-science-technology-office-alondra-nelson\/\">appointed<\/a> Alondra Nelson, a social scientist specializing in inequality, to head the OSTP, a position historically given to physicists and environmental scientists. The office\u2019s former director, Eric Lander, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/07\/joe-biden-eric-lander-resigns-bully\/\">resigned<\/a> earlier in the month after an internal White House investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/07\/joe-biden-white-house-eric-lander-bully\/\">concluded<\/a>\u00a0he had bullied and demeaned subordinates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, this is just more clueless timing,\u201d Steve Milloy, a member of former President Donald Trump\u2019s transition team in 2016, told reporters during a press call Thursday in reference to the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/23\/vladimir-putin-military-operation-donbas-war-ukraine\/\">Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have this major situation going on, one that definitely affects us and what\u2019s the White House doing?\u201d Milloy said. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to figure out how to cripple our economy with their pointless energy policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heartland Institute President James Taylor said that the timing was like a \u201cdark comedy\u201d during the call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely astounding that they\u2019re going ahead with this, they\u2019re going ahead with this today of all days and that this is their highest priority,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>The OSTP didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will hold a roundtable Thursday to discuss how officials can combat climate denialism and delay, The Washington Post reported.The OSTP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}