The president addressed the U.N. General Assembly yesterday and talked about a variety of topics. Some of those included immigration and the war between Israel and Hamas, reports the AP. However, Blaze Media posted on X a video about Trump’s confronting the U.N. about climate change.
"It used to be global cooling if you look back years ago. In the 1920s and the 1930s, they said, 'Global cooling will kill the world. We have to do something.' Then they said, 'Global warming will kill the world.' But then it started getting cooler. So now, they just call it 'climate change' because that way they can't miss," stated Trump in the video.
He said the U.N. predictions on climate change, often made for bad reasons, were wrong.
"They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don't get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail," stated Trump.
David Legates is a climatologist and director of research and education at the Cornwall Alliance.
"I don't like it when they refer to it as a ‘hoax’ or something along those lines because everybody knows climate change happens. It occurs,” says Legates.
He stresses that climate is never a constant, therefore climate change happens.
“The question we're talking about is anthropogenic climate change. What we're not really worried about is the small degree of temperature change that may or may not occur," says Legates.
Anthropogenic climate change is a long-term shift in the Earth’s climate, which would cause extreme weather events. Legates went on to say that adaptation to the climate, which would hit poorer countries harder, is the answer and not mitigation.
