Trump was asked today his thoughts on the climate assessment released by his administration last Friday. He did not mince words.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/politics/donald-trump-climate-change/index.html
(CNN)President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed a study produced by his own administration, involving 13 federal agencies and more than 300 leading climate scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impact of climate change.
Why, you ask?
"I don't believe it," Trump told reporters on Monday, adding that he had read "some" of the report.
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This might seem alarming given the consensus among climate scientists who do "believe" the report, but many will breath a sigh of relief knowing that just last month, Trump let us know, in musing on the UN Climate Report that he "has a natural instinct for science". So, all is well. Thank you, Professor Trump!
https://www.sciencealert.com/trump-...t-rebuttal-climate-change-global-warming-ipcc
"Only a fortnight after the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued what is arguably the most
comprehensively damning report on the fate of the planet in the history of science, Trump
assured people they don't have to worry, because – basically – he has a gut feeling about stuff like this.
"I mean, you have scientists on both sides of it. My uncle was a great professor at MIT for many years,"
Trump told AP when questioned about the
looming irreversibility of catastrophic climate change.
"And I didn't talk to him about this particular subject, but I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture."
The comments, which are not encouraging as world leaders prepare to send delegations to the
UN's COP24 climate conference in Katowice, Poland in December, come just days after Trump gave an interview to
60 Minutes, acknowledging "something" was happening to the climate, but also introducing new doubts.
"I think something's happening. Something's changing and it'll change back again,"
Trump told CBS's Lesley Stahl."