Donald Trump has recruited Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota as his new adviser. And like majority of republicans, Cramer, who serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, is also a climate change skeptic.

Trump campaign detailed that Cramer will step into his role by preparing two papers on energy policy in the coming months. And after that, hypothetically, he would be a leading candidate for Secretary of Energy in a Trump administration, Slate reported.

The news comes in aftermath of Trump’s interview with the editorial board of The Washington Post, where he said he was not a “great believer” of climate change but went on to affirm there has been a “change in weather.”

Here's what Trump's energy advisor thinks of fracking, the Saudis, and climate change https://t.co/iXayNCNsHq pic.twitter.com/S6UJrqXJ74 — VICE News (@vicenews) May 19, 2016

Below is the transcript of the interview:

HIATT: Last one: You think climate change is a real thing? Is there human-caused climate change?

TRUMP: I think there’s a change in weather. I am not a great believer in man-made climate change. I’m not a great believer. There is certainly a change in weather that goes—if you look, they had global cooling in the 1920s and now they have global warming, although now they don’t know if they have global warming. They call it all sorts of different things; now they’re using “extreme weather” I guess more than any other phrase. I am not—I know it hurts me with this room, and I know it’s probably a killer with this room—but I am not a believer. Perhaps there’s a minor effect, but I’m not a big believer in man-made climate change.

Trump has since received a lot of criticism for his remarks. Steven Colbert was one of his harsh critics. Colbert slammed Trump’s statement in twitter.

“Global warming isn’t real because I was cold today! Also great news: World hunger is over because I just ate.”

Those who are aware about the perils of the climate change are taking the internet to mock Trump’s stance on global warming. Joe Romm of Think Progress and Climate Progress doubted if Trump even understood what weather actually means.

First Trump starts, “I think there’s a change in weather,” and then repeats “There is certainly a change in weather.” Apparently he is unaware of the fact that the weather changes all the time, sometimes in a matter of hours, and indeed that is a defining characteristic of weather. One day it rains, the next day it is sunny. You’d have to be a total know-nothing to think that “a change in the weather” was in the least bit noteworthy in the climate debate, he wrote.

In another exchange with The Washington Post, Trump diverted the topic to Nuclear weapons when asked about climate change. Below is the transcript of the conversation:

STROMBERG: Don’t good businessmen hedge against risks, not ignore them?

TRUMP: Well I just think we have much bigger risks. I mean I think we have militarily tremendous risks. I think we’re in tremendous peril. I think our biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear weapons. The biggest risk to the world, to me—I know President Obama thought it was climate change—to me the biggest risk is nuclear weapons. That’s—that is climate change. That is a disaster, and we don’t even know where the nuclear weapons are right now. We don’t know who has them. We don’t know who’s trying to get them. The biggest risk for this world and this country is nuclear weapons, the power of nuclear weapons.

It’s clear that Trump denies climate change despite the overwhelming evidence that the earth is actually heating up. Having a man in White house who is living in denial of such a hazardous problem is not only riskier for the United States but for the entire world.

Trump Wants To Renegotiate Climate Change Deal, 'Or Something Else'-the Chinese are to blame for Climate change?:) https://t.co/IhUX1dhaS9 — Martina Navratilova (@Martina) May 18, 2016

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