Ryan Zinke Quotes


The climate is changing; I don't think you can deny that. But climate has always changed.


Citations

United States, Congress, Senate, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Hon. Ryan Zinke to be the Secretary of the Interior. Government Publishing Office, 17 Jan. 2017.

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Here is a case of where an absolutely true quotation is used inappropriately politically. In this case to imply that there is nothing we can do to stop global warming. Just as humans have created some of the climate change in the last centuries, humans can change behavior and stop that portion of the change that we are creating. In addition, there are scientific and technological techniques being developed to alter the climate beyond that which mankind has produced.


This was his last House debate and whereas almost all scientists had agreed that climate change was a serious challenge to the nation, an ideologically driven majority of his Republican Party denied that that there was any climate change that was different from the usual vicissitudes of nature, he tried to persuade his anti-scientific, conservative colleagues to face reality.


Ryan Zinke
Ryan Zinke
  • Born: November 1, 1961
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Ryan Keith Zinke is an American politician and businessman who served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the Trump Administration from 2017 until his resignation in 2019. He previously served as the U.S. Representative for Montana's at-large congressional district from 2015 to 2017. From 2009 to 2013, he served as a member of the Montana Senate, representing the 2nd district.