Faced with a major UN report that warns of floods, drought, extreme heat and increased poverty should the world not take radical action to address climate change, Donald Trump has been uncharacteristically quiet.
The US president was visiting Florida, a state particularly vulnerable to sea level rise and currently in the path of Hurricane Michael, when the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warned on Monday that “unprecedented” changes were needed to stave off dire impacts if the world warms 1.5C beyond the pre-industrial period.
Trump, who has previously called climate change a “hoax” and questioned whether global warming was occurring because it snowed last winter, told reporters only that he was aware of the report: “It was given to me. And I want to look at who drew it … Because I can give you reports that are fabulous, and I can give you reports that aren’t so good. But I will be looking at it, absolutely.”
Climate change is happening, but it's a natural result of geological processes. While improving efficiency in a way that doesn't harm the ecosystem is laudable, the idea that we could stop climate change by cleaning up everything is absurd. Our goals should be to weather the changes, not clean everything in vain hopes that'll stop it from happening.
Angel Kelly
if climate change is a hoax, and trump doesn't believe in it, why is his golf course spending money preparing it for the rising sea levels?
Caleb Barnes
Trump doesn't believe that it's due to human factors. It's still happening though, hence the preparations.
Luke Allen
The UN is Chicken Little LOL
Nathaniel Lewis
ITT: Fish in a barrel. Sheep to the slaughter. Mogami gawa.
Charles White
yeah, for the last 40 years people have been saying we'll be fucked in 10-15 years, and strangely nothing has happened..
Elijah Barnes
This is Trump's fault somehow.
Justin Lee
amerifats, just a country of fucking man-children
Wyatt Roberts
Except we aren't polluting any more than any of the other countries that were in the Paris accord, yet why are we the ones to blame?
Henry Garcia
Daily reminder, at this moment Holland is killing its natural fish population to place windmills on the sea (I know because I'm Dutch, I watch the news).
And why are we treating china the same way as a third world country by provinding them with money
Parker Campbell
Any evidence for that??
Nathan Roberts
Hey Zheng, whatcha doin over there?
Bentley Perry
HOW TO TELL SOMEONE IS YOUNGER THAN YOU :
they haven't been on the planet long enough to have noticed that we no longer have spring and fall
idiots
Lincoln Bell
If only YOU knew exactly how much you don't know
Jayden Carter
you have misplaced concerns
nobody does from smoking pot
Heroin Addicts Solve Their Own Problem (and your life isn't effected by either one)
go play another video game and S T F U
Brody Diaz
if somebody doesn't believe it's due to human factors then by definition they are hokey tin foil hat conspiracy nuts on par with flat earhthers, because the evidence for this is as solid as the evidence that the earth is round.
Bentley Sullivan
sorry by "nothing" you mean the hottest years on record increasing as the latest years go by, record flooding, hurricanes, wildfires around the world, and wild swings in local weather norms. die offs of insects and marine life, especially plankton, all due to the rapidly overall heating of the oceans. the north has been losing ice steadily over the past couple decades. etc.
