Christian Science Monitor: In an address on energy Thursday, Donald Trump laid out a new breed of climate skepticism taking hold among conservatives.
He pledged to deregulate the American fossil-fuel industry, he decried the cost of renewable energy, and he promised American energy independence to an enthusiastic crowd of oil executives. But he steered clear of climate change entirely.
It is not that Republicans have changed their position on climate change. Some 56 percent of Republicans in the 114th Congress denied...