Finally, while numerous global
warming denial sites are getting excited by Sheehan's conversion, as if he is some great arbiter of scientific truth, it seems perhaps that he hasn't always been that great at assessing science anyway as Tim Lambert points out in this comments thread at Deltoid.
Though «climate
denial starts at the top,» the New York Times» Coral Davenport wrote in March, it was trickling down into a variety of high - influence position: Vice President Mike Pence, who once called global
warming a «myth» disproved by the fact that his home state once had a cold winter; then - senior advisor Steve Bannon, whose news
site Breitbart remains one of the top destinations for climate misinformation; Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who believes carbon dioxide is not a «primary contributor» to global
warming; and Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who believes the same myth, saying in June, «No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.»