NEW YORK — The head of the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday rejected scientific findings that record global temperatures were caused by climate change, dismissing the jump as merely “weather,” and he defended the conservative group’s Project 2025 policy playbook.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said the policy recommendations in the Project 2025 papers reflected the sentiment of the broader conservative movement, and he regretted not defending the project — which former President Donald Trump has disavowed — when it was criticized by Democrats.
“We allowed the radical left to define the brand ‘Project 2025,’” he said at a New York Times-hosted climate change event held in conjunction with Climate Week NYC. “We should have, figuratively speaking, punched back. Lesson learned.”
The recommendations included in the Heritage papers call for the U.S. to drastically curtail scientific research, scrap international climate aid, sharply reduce the government workforce and end subsidies for clean energy.
