Unfortunately for all of us who enjoy life on this planet, NASA warns that scientific evidence for climate change is unequivocal. Even more unfortunately, the person who President-elect Donald Trump tapped to transition the Environmental Protection Agency for his administration is a long-time Washington insider who doesn't believe in scientific facts. Here's what you need to know about him:

1. Myron Ebell doesn't think climate change is real. Although there is scientific consensus on global warming, Ebell revels in not believing it. (Or, at least lying about not believing it — he's been in Washington for a longtime so it's surprising he's not part of the #DrainTheSwamp effort Trump promised, and so quickly rescinded on.)

2. Myron Ebell thinks that even if climate change is real, it's a good thing! He wrote an op-ed in 2006 called “Love Global Warming." In it, he urged readers to think about the "benefits" of climate change: less severe winter storms and warmer weather means more beach time!

3. Myron Ebell loves to be in the spotlight. The wonk loves to be on your TV spouting his dubious facts, so get ready to see his mug even more often:

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4. Myron Ebell is proud to be hated by experts who know climate change is a real thing. As Scientific American points out:

In a biography submitted when he testified before Congress, he listed among his recognitions that he had been featured in a Greenpeace “Field Guide to Climate Criminals,” dubbed a “misleader” on global warming by Rolling Stone and was the subject of a motion to censure in the British House of Commons after Ebell criticized the United Kingdom’s chief scientific adviser for his views on global warming.

5. Myron Ebell's organization is financed in part by Exxon and the coal industry. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, his libertarian advocacy group which vocally opposes the Clean Power Plan, received $2 million from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2005, according to Vanity Fair.

6. Myron Ebell had an early job in Washington helping to hurt endangered animals. He worked for Republican congressman from Arizona, John Shadegg, on an effort to rewrite the Endangered Species Act to make it "more respectful of property rights."

7. Myron Ebell can (and probably will) destroy all the good the Obama Administration has done for the environment. Trump thinks Obama’s hard-won and important efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions are a "disgrace" and is appointing Ebell to obliterate them.

8. Myron Ebell will be working for a man who believes very dangerous, untrue things about climate change. So, this is basically a dream team, if your dream is to completely destroy the planet.

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The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

9. Myron Ebell will be fought by Environmental protection groups. Many groups are gearing up to see him in court and they will need our support.

“We can guarantee him the hardest fight of his political life,” said Michael Bruene, executive director of the Sierra Club. “He can’t change the fact that clean energy is cheaper than dirty fuels and that the climate is changing. The markets and the American people are moving people beyond dirty fuels. Trump cannot reverse this tide.”

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Laura Beck Laura Beck is a Los Angeles-based TV writer and frequent contributor to Cosmopolitan.com — her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Jezebel, and the Village Voice.

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