The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, insisted that talking about climate change as Texas continues to recover from the devastating Harvey storm, and Florida currently braces for the impact of Hurricane Irma, would be “very, very insensitive.”

‘To have any kind of focus on the cause and effect of the storm; versus helping people, or actually facing the effect of the storm, is misplaced,” said Pruitt, a well-known climate skeptic, according to CNN.

“What we need to focus on is access to clean water, addressing these areas of superfund activities that may cause an attack on water, these issues of access to fuel,” he continued. “Those are things so important to citizens of Florida right now, and to discuss the cause and effect of these storms, there’s the… place (and time) to do that, it’s not now.”

President Donald Trump has also failed to acknowledge the consequences, or even the dangers of, climate change as well. The president’s administration has instead attempted to roll back Obama-era pollution regulations in the name of job creation.

Houstonians saw record-setting amounts of water pouring into their communities, […]