A new Trump administration official is in charge of assessing climate research.

And he's a doozy.

A clip from 2014 of him popped up comparing the regulation of carbon dioxide to the Holocaust.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

How discrediting climate science fits into a decades-long

mission to make the rich richer. You have to give conservatives some credit here. They played a long

game and they funded an intellectual movement. The Democrats were much more short-term in their thinking.

And taking the long view, really long, on what we've done to the planet and what to call

this age of destruction. The amount of plastic is something of the order of four to five billion

tons, which is enough to wrap the whole earth in a layer of plastic wrap.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

On Black Friday last year, the federal government released its national climate assessment,

a document that spelled out in black and white that climate change is a far, far more catastrophic problem than had previously been reported.

The report says extreme weather and climate-related events could worsen in the future and

significantly impact our economy.

The report was hidden intentionally behind the inevitable chaos of the holiday weekend.

Less than a month ago, the intergovernmental science policy platform and biodiversity and

ecosystem services released its shocking finding that as many as one million plant and animal species are now at risk

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