Fargo City Commissioner Dave Piepkorn recently claimed that “in North Dakota, we love fossil fuels.”

Dave’s statement aroused a curiosity in us: Does he accept human-caused climate change as a scientific truth?

When we asked him the question via email, he answered with a non-answer:

“I made that statement because we have vast reserves of fossil fuels that will benefit our state.”

We’ve asked him (again) to answer the question, and will update if we receive a response.