President Donald Trump dismissed the specter of climate change, calling it “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.”
The overwhelming majority of climate scientists have concluded climate change is occurring, and that it’s primarily brought on by fossil gas air pollution. Already, the world is seeing its results: Floods have gotten extra excessive and lethal, droughts are extra widespread and extreme and warmth waves are extra harmful.
“All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong,” Trump claimed. “They were made by stupid people.”
“They said global warming will kill the world, but then it started getting cooler. So now they could just call it climate change, because that way, they can’t miss. It’s climate change, because if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell happens, there’s climate change,” Trump mentioned.
The president additionally claimed inexperienced vitality policies enable international locations with out restrictions to generate income.
“The primary effect of these brutal green energy policies has not been to help the environment but to redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules that are put down to polluting countries that break the rules and are making a fortune,” Trump mentioned.
He additionally known as the carbon footprint, or the amount of greenhouse gas emissions somebody or one thing produces, a “con job,” arguing that those that pushed for decreasing it, like former President Barack Obama, have been hypocritical in their actions.
“The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they’re heading down a path of total destruction,” Trump mentioned. “A few years ago, I remember hearing about the carbon footprint, and then President Obama would get into Air Force One, a massive Boeing 747, and not a new one, an old one with old engines that spew everything into the atmosphere.”