The acting assistant administrator of USAID for Asia, Gloria Steele, greeted a question about climate change with conspicuous, cringe-inducing silence during a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting Thursday, BuzzFeed News reports.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) wanted to know if the devastating floods in Bangladesh "have anything at all to do with, I don't know, the warming of the climate?" Under former President Barack Obama, Steele had spoken at length about the disastrous consequences of "changes in climate" in Asia, but on Thursday she said … nothing at all.
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