Before he was an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s new White House communications director, lamented that some people did not accept the consensus among climate scientists that human activity was warming Earth.
It was “disheartening” that so many people dismissed climate change as a “hoax,” Scaramucci tweeted.
Among those “many people” of course was then-presidential candidate Trump, who famously tweeted that the concept of global warming was a hoax fabricated by China.
Two months after Scaramucci’s plea about climate change, he was hired by Trump — and the certainty with which the wealthy financier spoke about climate science changed.
Scaramucci, a spokesman for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, was given one of the largest megaphones in the national media when the president tapped him Friday.
Scaramucci’s views on climate change — or at least, the views he once held — will be out of place in a West Wing alongside chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and other Trump advisers who dismiss the threat of climate change.
His sentiment in that 2016 tweet was not a one-off that year.
In February, when the planet set its ninth consecutive monthly temperature record, according to NASA data, Scaramucci pleaded to his Twitter followers to not “stand on the wrong side of history.”
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