The new Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, claims that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there has been no increase in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or droughts – but Wright is wrong.
It should be criminally punishable for public servants to blatantly lie like this. I don’t mean little white lies should be illegal. I don’t mean that statements where there is even a smidge of room for disagreement should be illegal. I mean that big, damaging, blatantly disprovable lies should be illegal.
In this case, he is saying that the IPCC has said the exact opposite of what the IPCC has said. He is lying about something that can be found in black and white in the IPCC reports.
It should be criminally punishable for public servants to blatantly lie like this. I don’t mean little white lies should be illegal. I don’t mean that statements where there is even a smidge of room for disagreement should be illegal. I mean that big, damaging, blatantly disprovable lies should be illegal.
In this case, he is saying that the IPCC has said the exact opposite of what the IPCC has said. He is lying about something that can be found in black and white in the IPCC reports.