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    'Hey, we can turn sea-level rise into a win-win, right?'

    by Carl Hiaasen, Tribune Content Agency Feb 12, 2018 3 minutes

    An absolutely true news item: EPA chief Scott Pruitt told an interviewer that climate change might not be a bad thing, saying: "We know humans have most flourished during times of, what, warming trends. ... Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100?"

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    Other muddled, unscientific thoughts that one can easily imagine Scott Pruitt saying someday:

    "You always hear these climate-change nerds squawk about

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