text: The issue here is one of governance.  There is no legitimate disagreement about the fact of climate change -- those who deny the fact of climate change constitute the twenty-first century Flat Earth Society.  There continues to be some disagreement about how much human activity contributes to climate change, and also about what can and should be done about it.  Assigning a climate change denier to direct the EPA Transition Team is dangerous, reckless and irresponsible as a matter of governance.
  
  As for  Catholic teaching about the climate and the environment, Pope Francis' encyclical, 'Laudato si' is the most comprehensive and authoritative statement we have on the subject.  Denial is not an option.