The environmental left in Colorado exhibited global warming Wednesday after President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the next chief of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Pete Maysmith, executive director of Conservation Colorado, said the man a New York Times headline called  “an ally of [the] fossil fuel industry” would be no ally to most Coloradans.

Pruitt has been skeptical of humans’ role in climate change and has been a conservative warrior against President Obama’s climate-change policies. Trump, during the campaign, called climate change a hoax perpetuated by China.

“It is extremely disconcerting to hear that President-elect Trump has nominated a climate denier to lead the EPA,” Maysmith said. “His record of putting profits ahead of people is crosswise with Colorado’s commitment to a clean future. We urge Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet to vote against this reckless nominee and instead prioritize the health of Colorado’s air, land, water and people.

Conservation Colorado pointed out that a Public Opinion Strategies poll a year ago indicated two-thirds of Coloradans see climate change as an “extremely” or “very” serious problem, and 90 percent said one of the reasons they chose Colorado as their home is because of “clean air, clean water and environment.”

The Rocky Mountain chapter of the Sierra Club tweeted out Executive Director Michael Brune’s statement that compared Pruitt to an arsonist put in charge of fighting fires.

“Nothing less than our children’s health is at stake,” Brune said in a statement. “Scott Pruitt, whose own bio describes him as ‘a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,’ cannot be trusted to head the EPA, an agency charged with protecting all Americans from threats to their water, air, and health.”

Favorite leftie rabble-rouser Arn Menconi, the Green Party nominee for U.S. Senate this year and a former Eagle County commissioner, retweeted Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat who said the EPA under Pruitt would stand for “Every Polluter’s Ally.”

The New Mexico-based Western Landowners Alliance, a land conservation organization, urged Pruitt to seek common ground and common sense over partisanship.

“No one wants excessive or cost-prohibitive regulation,” executive director Lesli Allison said in a statement. “At the same time, Westerners also value clean air, clean water, wildlife and a healthy environment. We hope Mr. Pruitt will take a leadership role in improving public dialogue on these important issues and bring all interests to the table to generate collaborative solutions. We must move beyond polarizing rhetoric and politics to real-world solutions.”

And then there was this contribution via Twitter from well-known Colorado environmental consultant Gary Wockner: