Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett refused to say whether she accepts the science of climate change, saying she lacks the expertise to know for sure and calling it a topic too controversial to get into.On Wednesday, pressed at her confirmation hearing by Democratic Sen.
Kamala Harris of California, Barrett framed acknowledgment of manmade climate change as a matter of policy, not science.Barrett said Harris, the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee as well as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was trying to get her to state an opinion “on a very contentious matter of public debate, and I will not do that.”Barrett was responding to a series of questions from Harris, including whether she thinks the novel coronavirus is.