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New US Communication Office Chief Changes His Tune

Scaramucci now says he is "subordinate" and that his belief on climate change has changed

● Scaramucci once accepted warming. No more

Via E&E News

President Trump's new messaging tactician, Anthony Scaramucci, has said he's "really not an ideological guy."

That appears to be the case on climate change, about which he's expressed sharply shifting views in short periods of time. Scaramucci has criticized people for calling global warming a hoax. Then, within a year, he compared mainstream climate science to a consensus that "the Earth was flat."

When it comes to global warming, Scaramucci's recent comments offer a glimpse of how the new communications director is likely to approach the issue: Play up scientific uncertainties, question the extent of humanity's role and emphasize the costs of regulations.

That approach has been guiding the administration's climate messaging since Trump took office, and Cabinet officials have been doubling down in recent months to emphasize the limits of scientists' knowledge. U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Energy Secretary Rick Perry have called for a so-called red-team, blue-team exercise to poke holes in the consensus on global warming.

Scaramucci now appears eager to ditch some of his old viewpoints in order to fall in line with the Trump administration's messaging.

"I want to subordinate my political views to the views of the president and his agenda," he said yesterday on CBS's "Face the Nation."

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