Federal scientist picked by Trump fights back at being called a ‘climate denier’ – ‘How exactly do you deny a noun? Can you deny baseball? Can you deny grass? Can you deny mountains? Climate exists’

Every time someone calls me a “climate denier,” I have to ask:

How exactly do you deny a noun?

Can you deny baseball? Can you deny grass? Can you deny mountains? Climate exists.

And if you’re asking whether I deny climate change, then you’ve clearly never listened to anything… https://t.co/Cr3PVFlfZH

— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) July 10, 2026

Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki, Director – United States Global Change Research Program: “How can I simultaneously ‘deny climate change’ while constantly talking about past climate changes, ice ages, warm periods, droughts, floods, and the natural variability recorded throughout Earth’s history?”