Atmospheric CO2 has now passed 415 parts per million.
President Donald Trump’s top conservationist in charge of protecting U.S. natural resources said on Wednesday that he was not “losing sleep” over reports that atmospheric CO2, a main cause of climate change, was at its highest level in human history.
The former fossil fuel lawyer and lobbyist met with Congress for the first time as interior secretary to defend the president’s budget for the department, which chopped funding for environmental initiatives like the Land and Water Conservation Fund. David Bernhardt arrives before testifying during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing. When asked if he had heard that atmospheric CO2 has now passed 415 parts per million , Bernhardt said that he hadn’t. He added that he was not “losing any sleep over it.” Zach Gibson/Getty Images
“We didn’t start doing them to not do them,” said Bernhardt of recent rules written by his department that make it easier to take animals and plants off of the endangered species list and consider the economic impacts of adding them to the list.
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