What a strange, surreal historical moment this is.
President-elect Donald J. Drumpf, who has called climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese, met on Monday with the climate-activist extraordinaire Al Gore, offering environmental activists a glimmer of hope that the Drumpf administration’s policies will moderate from his campaign pledges to scrap all efforts to stem the warming of the planet.
But even as the president-elect was sitting down with the former vice president, his transition team continued to court ardent opponents of climate control policies to fill key posts in the government. Many transition officials question or deny the established science of human-caused climate change and have worked aggressively to undo President Obama’s climate change policies.
Mr. Gore, who starred in the Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” projected optimism in the lobby of Drumpf Tower, telling reporters that his meeting with Mr. Drumpf was “lengthy and very productive,” and calling it “a sincere search for areas of common ground.”
“I found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued,” he said.
Environmental activists looking for straws to grasp pointed to Mr. Drumpf’s daughter Ivanka, who met separately with Mr. Gore on Monday and who is reportedly seeking to use her platform as first daughter to speak out on climate change.
Ms. Drumpf has also met recently with the movie star and environmental advocate Leonardo DiCaprio, who gave her a copy of his documentary “Before the Flood,” which warns of the perils of climate change...
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