{"id":185601,"date":"2018-10-15T03:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T07:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=185601"},"modified":"2018-10-15T03:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T07:33:57","slug":"trump-says-climate-change-not-hoax-not-sure-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/15\/trump-says-climate-change-not-hoax-not-sure-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says climate change not a hoax, not sure of its source"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President of the United States Donald J. Trump at CPAC 2017 February 24th 2017 by Michael Vadon (Photo<\/a>: Michael Vadon\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump is backing off his claim that climate change is a hoax but says he doesn’t know if it’s manmade and suggests that the climate will \u201cchange back again.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with CBS’ \u201c60 Minutes\u201d that aired Sunday night, Trump said he doesn’t want to put the U.S. at a disadvantage in responding to climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think something’s happening. Something’s changing and it’ll change back again,\u201d he said. \u201cI don’t think it’s a hoax. I think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s manmade. I will say this: I don’t want to give trillions and trillions of dollars. I don’t want to lose millions and millions of jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump called climate change a hoax in November 2012 when he sent a tweet stating, \u201cThe concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.\u201d He later said he was joking about the Chinese connection, but in years since has continued to call global warming a hoax.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m not denying climate change,\u201d he said in the interview. \u201cBut it could very well go back. You know, we’re talking about over a … millions of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

As far as the climate \u201cchanging back,\u201d temperature records kept by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that the world hasn’t had a cooler-than-average year since 1976 or a cooler-than-normal month since the end of 1985.<\/p>\n

Trump, who is scheduled on Monday to visit areas of Georgia and Florida damaged by Hurricane Michael, also expressed doubt over scientists’ findings linking the changing climate to more powerful hurricanes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say that we had hurricanes that were far worse than what we just had with Michael,\u201d said Trump, who identified \u201cthey\u201d as \u201cpeople\u201d after being pressed by \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent Leslie Stahl. She asked, \u201cWhat about the scientists who say it’s worse than ever?\u201d the president replied, \u201cYou’d have to show me the scientists because they have a very big political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump’s comments came just days after a Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a warning that global warming would increase climate-related risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security and economic growth. The report detailed how Earth’s weather, health and ecosystems would be in better shape if the world’s leaders could somehow limit future human-caused warming.<\/p>\n

Citing concerns about the pact’s economic impact, Trump said in 2017 that the U.S. will leave the Paris climate accord. The agreement set voluntary greenhouse gas emission targets in an effort to lessen the impact of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

On a different topic, Trump told \u201c60 Minutes\u201d that he’s been surprised by Washington being a tough, deceptive and divisive place, though some accuse the real estate mogul elected president of those same tactics.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I always used to say the toughest people are Manhattan real estate guys and blah, blah,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I say they’re babies.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the political people in Washington have changed his thinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most deceptive, vicious world. It is vicious, it’s full of lies, deceit and deception,\u201d he said. \u201cYou make a deal with somebody and it’s like making a deal with \u2014 that table.\u201d<\/p>\n

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