In a December 2016 interview on CNN, Anthony Scaramucci — the new White House communications director — compared the consensus on climate change to the belief that the world was flat, Slate reported at the time.
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Trump's new communications director once compared the consensus on climate change to the belief that the world was flat
"We get a lot of things wrong in the scientific community."
Anthony Scaramucci making controversial claims on CNN with Chris Cuomo
"I know that the current president believes that the human beings are affecting the climate.
As Slate's Phil Plait pointed out, Scaramucci was actually wrong about there being a 100% consensus that the Earth was flat.
"Tmore than 2,000 years ago," Plait wrote.
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In the same interview, Scaramucci also brought up another controversial idea: how old the Earth is.
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You can watch the exchange below, though the embedded video cuts off before Scaramucci corrects himself.
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