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Sara Peach is the editor-in-chief of Yale Climate Connections.

Desperate for relevancy in the rapidly fading specialty of global warming hysteria, Yale Climate Connections purports to find a connection between a now-dead pedophile who’s in the news, and Donald Trump. This is the “hard evidence” Chris Murphy must be relying on in his assertion that “Clearly, Donald Trump was at the center of a child sex ring”

Jeffrey Epstein, climate change doubter

Newly released emails show Epstein peddling climate denial myths to scientist Lawrence Krauss while Trump’s first term was getting underway.

Climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that modern-day climate change is real, mostly bad, and caused by people. But according to newly released emails, deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein doubted that consensus.

[And of course, a trigger warning from Miss Peach’s editors]:

A heads up: In addition to references to climate-related misinformation, this article mentions allegations of sexual misconduct and crimes.

Last Wednesday, the U.S. House Oversight Committee released more than 20,000 documents from the Epstein estate, including thousands of his emails. Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors.

The newly released documents show that in late 2016 and early 2017, after Donald Trump was elected to his first term [Ed: where’d he come from?] Epstein exchanged emails with celebrity physicist Lawrence Krauss, who at the time was the director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. Epstein was a major donor to the Origins Project.

In the emails, which contain numerous typos and grammatical errors, Epstein pressed Krauss – who himself left Arizona State University in 2019 amid allegations of sexual misconduct – about several common claims by climate deniers. In each exchange, Krauss politely pushed back.

…. A few months later, Krauss wrote to Epstein with a reaction to the Trump administration’s authorization of funding for NASA.

“This is not supporting science,” Krauss said. “It is all about the size of the rocket for him. All this will do is give him glory and not contribute to science.”

….Reached for comment by Yale Climate Connections, Krauss said he hoped he’d had an impact on Epstein’s perspective.

“I like to think I dispelled some myths, and provided him data to help do so,” Krauss wrote by email.

Trump echoes Epstein’s misinformation

Trump, another regular topic in Epstein’s email inbox, returned to power this year. Photographs and documents suggest that Trump and Epstein were close for years before reportedly parting ways. Trump has denied any involvement in Epstein’s crimes and has said he wasn’t a “fan” of the man.

“Well, I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him,” Trump said in 2019. “I mean, people in Palm Beach knew him. He was a fixture in Palm Beach. I had a falling out with him a long time ago.”

Still, climate change denial was a common interest of the two men. The president has called climate change a hoax, and his administration has revived the misleading claim that carbon dioxide benefits crops.

More significant is each man’s enormous wealth and personal or political power – and how they wielded both at the expense of many others.