It's probably ridiculously dumb, and I'm trying to think of excuses, but if she were someone I knew I had respect for (nearly impossible if she's just a political appointee) then I would interpret that as, "climate change is real but scientists are overblowing it," which I've heard some say, but such impressions are usually made under a conclusion of a scientific breakthrough before there is one.

So for example, if we were to see real catastrophic effects (but not apocalyptic/mass death) effects in the world, the kind of wake up call required to turn it into the kind of criss that is similar to a large-scale war that fuels innovation and development, but still have a breathing room of a good decade at least before any apocalyptic effects, then it's not unreasonable to think we'd do fine. Given the collective drive of even a single nation on one thing, the imaginable can become possible, and what we're after.

It would only take a year or two of concentrated effort of global powers to develop, create, and implement a delaying strategy, many of which have already been come up with. Lowering the amount of sunlight the Earth receives by implementing solutions in space, massive artifical cooling of the poles as the same cascading problem that leads to temperature rising (ice caps melt, less ice means less cold, thus warmer, which means more ice caps melt) can be used to do the reverse (creating massive amounts of ice and dumping them in the poles).

The great thing about implementing a delayment strategy is that it means that at this point it is in everyone's interest to find a permanent solution, because such strategies are an enormous money drain, and many solutions will create large energy shortages as countries are obviously not equipped to implement them with the current infrastructure. So once a delayment strategy is implemented, even corporations will spearhead breakthroughs--because governments will be raising tax or even forcibly contracting companies without guaranteed payment, as is possible in most states in such states of emergency..