Here’s the good news from the embryonic federal administration of Donald Trump: the newly named members are nearly 100 percent in agreement on the vital issue of climate change and global warming.

Unfortunately for creatures living on Earth, the near-unanimity among nominees is that they doubt humans are the cause of climate change. This doubt then triggers more worries because it nestles up to the close relationship many Trump nominees have with the fossil fuel industry.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is to head the Department of Energy. Why didn’t Trump just go with someone like the former head of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson? He couldn’t because he named Tillerson secretary of state.

The closest thing to an appointee not celebrating the burning of hydrocarbons is Department of Education director-designate Betsy DeVos, chairwoman of the Windquest Group, an investment company she founded with her husband in 1989 that invests in clean energy technology, according to a report in The Guardian.

The University of Hawaii’s Chip Fletcher is associate dean for academic affairs of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). He is one of Hawaii’s leading experts on climate change and sea level rise, and Trump’s election set off alarms.

“Climate scientists watched in some degree of horror as he won,” Fletcher said in an interview.

“In my mind the negatives are materializing faster than I imagined.”

So far there are no direct orders to go forth and pollute, but the nominees for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the attorney general and the Department of Health and Human Services all have records opposing climate change theories.

The question now is with so many science deniers running major portions of the American government, what will happen to the country, besides becoming a laughingstock?

“Are we going to become the outlier on climate and global warming?” asked Fletcher.

Of course among scientists the evidence of both global warming and its human-caused reasons are obvious; even NASA has come out to say there is compelling evidence of a human-caused climate change.

SOEST is one of UH’s academic and research claims to fame, highly regarded and in the top tier of climate and earth science research — but Fletcher said many researchers are worried about what Trump will do.

“We are a national leader and maintain a prestigious research campus and our research is an important part of the economy,” Fletcher said, explaining that the hallway gossip is now all about fears of budget cuts and canceled research.

“Program managers are rushing to get budgets out the door. They are calling up and accelerating distributing funds before they are frozen,” said Fletcher.

The expectation is that within six months, projects on sustainability, energy research and climate science will be in a downward trend.

These new fears come after a tiny bright spot in climate news due to a 0.6 percent decrease in carbon emissions, which are partially responsible for global warming; Fletcher said it is because of work done by both President Barack Obama and China to limit new pollution sources.

The question now appears to be not what Trump and company will do, but how bad it can get in four years.

Richard Borreca writes on politics on Sundays. Reach him at 808onpolitics@gmail.com.