VIDEO: Trump interior pick says climate is no hoax

Under questioning from senator Bernie Sanders at his confirmation hearing yesterday, Donald Trump’s pick for the head of the department of interior Ryan Zinke said:
“Man has had an influence. I think that’s indisputable as well. So climate is changing, man has had an influence. I think where there’s debate on it is what that influence is, what can we do about it. And at the Department of Interior, if confirmed I will inherit if confirmed the USGS [US Geological Survey]. We have great scientists there. I’m not a climate scientist expert, but I can tell you I will become a lot more familiar with it and it will be based on objective science. I don’t believe it’s a hoax.”
Sanders was asking Zinke whether he agreed with a statement made over Twitter by Trump in 2014, when he called climate change a “hoax”.
NBC News just called it the great freeze – coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2014