Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Michael (Mike) Richard PompeoTreasury sanctions individuals, groups tied to Russian malign influence activities Navalny released from hospital after suspected poisoning Overnight Defense: Pentagon redirects pandemic funding to defense contractors | US planning for full Afghanistan withdrawal by May | Anti-Trump GOP group puts ads in military papers MORE said there are "lots of ways" to address climate change and was confident the administration would find the means to do so.

“We will do the things necessary as the climate changes,” Pompeo said in an interview with The Washington Times published Friday.

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But he appeared to dismiss the impacts of climate change, saying “the climate’s been changing a long time.”

“I’ve heard folks from the party [say] that I was not part of talk about ‘enormous warming and the risk of real cooling.’ Ah, the data speaks for itself,” he told the Times.

The interview with Pompeo took place during a trip to Europe where, roughly two years after President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE pulled out of the Paris climate deal, leaders are still infuriated with the White House about its environmental policy.

Pompeo slammed the deal as a “failure,” saying it was “aspirational” and that “enforcement mechanisms were near nonexistent.”

Though Pompeo appeased some Democrats last year during his confirmation hearing by saying “the climate is changing, there’s a warming taking place,” he took thousands of dollars from the oil and natural gas industry during his time as a congressman and has a history of questioning the impact of climate change.

The Trump administration as a whole has faced criticism for not adequately addressing climate change.

The president said this week that the climate “changes both ways” and tweeted in 2012 that “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”