Claim: President-elect Trump has selected a climate change skeptic to head the team in charge of the transition between Obama and Trump's Environmental Protection Agencies.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: On May 9, Trump named New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to head a team to plan the transition of the presidency in the event of a Trump victory.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced the formation of the White House National Trade Council (NTC) and his selection of Dr. Peter Navarro to serve as Assistant to the President and Director of Trade and Industrial Policy.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Soon after the election, he was appointed chairman of President-elect Trump's transition team.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: During his January 18, 2017, confirmation hearing to be EPA Administrator, he said that "the climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Head Stacks Agency With Climate Change Skeptics".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: This can be seen as Trump is right about the impossibility of climate change, has signed executive orders dismantling environmental protections, and has ordered the EPA to remove climate change information from their public site, likely signaling America's unwillingness to acknowledge the future possibility of increased environmental refugees from climate change.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The United States, which was warned under the Obama administration to prepare for climate change and the refugees, may have less difficulties being prepared to do so under current President Donald Trump.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: President Trump appointed Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: On June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, but a number of U.S. states formed the United States Climate Alliance to maintain within state borders the objectives of the Clean Power Plan separately from the federal government.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, in a 19 June 2017 interview with CNBC, acknowledged the existence of climate change and impact from humans, but said that he did not agree with the idea that carbon dioxide was the primary driver of global warming pointing instead to "the ocean waters and this environment that we live in".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The measure was recanted days later, but Trump has proclaimed his intent to “drastically cut the EPA.” Myron Ebell, a former member of the Trump transition team, when asked about United States Environmental Protection Agency cuts in an interview with Associated Press, responded "Let's aim [to cut] for half and see how it works out, and then maybe we'll want to go further.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Trump is a climate change skeptic, who in 2012 tweeted that he believed the concept of global warming was created by China in order to impair American competitiveness.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, has said that "climate change is a hoax invented by and for Chinese."