Lee Zeldin said long-range climate projections for 2050 or 2100 should be treated as a range of outcomes, not fixed predictions, and argued dissent from those forecasts should not be branded science denial.
Asked which Biden-era climate predictions had been disproven, the EPA administrator declined to name one and instead said forecasts must be updated as new evidence emerges rather than judged against outdated assumptions.
Zeldin said critics of specific temperature or sea-level projections deserve to be heard because they may be relying on different studies, especially where uncertainty widens further into the future.
The remarks align with the Trump administration's broader push to revisit climate policy, including the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding that underpins many federal greenhouse-gas regulations.