In case you missed it last night…
Donald Trump talks climate change on ‘60 Minutes’: ‘I don’t think it’s a hoax’
Yahoo! News – October 15, 2018
On Sunday’s 60 Minutes, correspondent Lesley Stahl sat down with President Trump to cover an array of topics including Hurricane Michael, which has claimed 19 lives in the Florida Panhandle. Stahl asked Trump if he still thinks climate change is a hoax.
“Look, I think something’s happening. Something’s changing and it’ll change back again,” Trump said. “I don’t think it’s a hoax, I think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s manmade.”
So it appears that Trump, who has called climate change a hoax and nonexistent in the past, seems to have changed his tune. A little.
For Trump, the issue seems to be more about money and politics. Past tweets suggest that he thinks other countries, like China, will overtake the U.S. as the leading world economy.
“I don’t want to give trillions and trillions of dollars,” Trump said. “I don’t want to lose millions and millions of jobs. I don’t want to be put at a disadvantage.”
But Stahl was more interested in hearing what Trump had to say about the actual proof of a changing climate. When she said she wished he could go to Greenland to watch huge chunks of ice falling into the ocean and raising sea levels, Trump wasn’t having it.
“You don’t know whether or not that would have happened with or without man. You don’t know,” Trump said.
Stahl, who conducted a great interview in spite of the interviewee, tried one more time to inject facts into the mix by asking him about all the scientists who say that climate change is worse than ever.
“You’d have to show me the scientists, because they have a very big political agenda, Lesley,” Trump said.
They cut catastrophic, anthropogenic, global, and warming corners to reach “climate change”. This reminds me of the campus joke: D means degree.
Agenda interview no. 501
A climate science dunce being interviewed by a climate science idiot makes for (entertaining?) viewing but does nothing to improve anyone’s knowledge of the relevant facts.
I am, however, gratified to see our President try to put the interests of Americans first for a change. Which is what we usually elect them to do.
“seems to have changed his tune. A little.”
And in a direction closer to main stream skeptics. Calling climate change a hoax is incorrect, even if the IPCC/UNFCCC is using the broken science to perpetrate climate reparations.
You can’t disconnect the broken science from politics and money and part of Trump’s job is to make sure trillions of our wealth is not wasted, moreover; the fact that politics chose sides is why climate science is so broken.
Yahoo News news thinks that trying to refer The Lew’s 97% is a “fact”?
Trumps answer is the fact.
As was his answer to Greenland glaciers doing what they always do when they hit the sea, calving, is somehow unusual and Man’s fault.
(Time to repeat an oldie. “When glaciers calve, alarmist have a cow. That explains all the bellowing!”)
The rank demagoguery surrounding the phrase “climate change” is stunning. To those who assume that climate is naturally invariable, the phrase itself denotes an anthropogenic cause. By contrast, those who are aware that natural climate is perpetually changing, don’t agree that change is, ipso facto, necessarily man-made. Stahl’s spin is plainly intended for double-digit IQ’s who don’t recognize that “hoax” refers to the anthropogenic attribution, not the natural change.
Trump did fine. ” … the scientists … have a very big political agenda, Lesley.” He said the climate has changed (so “climate change” is happening, sure) and it will change back again (temperatures go up, … and.. they go down …). He didn’t really concede any ground at all.
Global warming is exaggerated but Trump is still an horse’s backside. Stick to the science. That fellow is temporary.
Global warming is exaggerated but convincing people does not go through Trump. He hasn’t a clue.
This is a important point. Whenever the usual suspects mention Climate Change, we should say. Of course, its been changing ever since the planet first formed,. Next question please.
MJE
Back when candidate Trump first announced his running I researched him. I have a link on my computer – that I don’t on my phone to share it – that basically says Donald J. Trump is a genius…but he’s more than that. He has a 157 IQ by their assessments. That I remember.
We know that Climate Change is just the new name for Anthropogenic Global Warming. So does Trump. Calling Climate Change a Hoax is like calling AGW a Hoax. But the mainstream has separated the two by their narratives. President Trump has only confirmed that he doesn’t believe that Climate Change is man-made. His stance has been proof of that by his policies and actions on opening up the Fossil Fuels Industries and the nixing Paris Accord. So he has said by this, that Climate Changes and doesn’t deny that it does…but there’s no proof that humans cause it.
Obviously a slanted against Trump article.
And Trump handled it perfectly. I could have done a little better.
And please, the commentary from the UK who fiddles their data worse than NOAA, and is being taken over by Islam, your Trump bashing holds zero credibility in my book.
I think of it as a classic case of needing to try and listen to what Trump means, not what he says, because he tends to think out loud even when speculating.
Like when he said something about it being a Chinese hoax. I just took that to mean that he sees it as primarily benefiting China enormously at the expense of the USA, not that it was conceived and started by China.
Of course, the media is delighted with any and every opportunity to misrepresent him when he has already done half their work for them. The MSM will sorely miss him when he is gone.
Lesley Stahl, LOL, what a moron. She actually thinks calving glaciers is “proof” of manmade warming.
Me? Miss 60 minutes?
Actually I haven’t watched it in 20 years. Not since I caught them telling blatant lies about a story that I had personal knowledge of.
It would have been even better had Trump countered the Greenland glacier comment by saying he wished Stahl could accompany him to some part of the world where clear evidence of plate tectonics is on display (active volcanism, the Great Rift valley, San Andreas fault, etc…). And then asking her exactly what she thought that humankind could do about it and how to stop it! So, Leslie…how are we going to keep the Atlantic ocean from expanding and who will we expect to be separated from their hard-earned money in order to chase that wild goose?
IMO this is the sort of logic that should be turned around on warmists because it actively attacks their lack of logic.
It would have been great if Trump stated that Greenland gained 20Gt of ice in the past year.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/09/24/greenland-ice-sheet-apparently-gains-mass-for-the-2nd-year-in-a-row/
I’ve been challenging lefty journalists on Twitter regarding the climate aspects in this interview. The shear hatred for Trump coming from this supposedly unbiased reporter is something to behold. His thread is above this reply from me to his triumphal climate-related tweet
https://twitter.com/scute1133/status/1051960177136717826?s=21
Trump is 100% correct. He agreed that there is climate change but not global warming. That clearly justifies his Paris revolt. He agreed that there is natural variation. That is exactly what I am propagating for years in writting.
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
The most stupid thing Lesley Stahl said was when she told Trump to go to Greenland and see the glaciers dropping big chunks of ice into the ocean and raising sea level. She needs to take a freshman geology class. Glaciers only “calve” and break off the front of the glacier if they are active glaciers receiving enough snow at the top to keep the glacier moving forward until the front is unsupported by land and breaks off into the sea. If the climate caused the glacier to quit moving it would simply melt or sublimate in place. Lesley the Dumb was watching active healthy glaciers.
Will Happer needs to talk to POTUS about ethanol.
Here’s an excerpt from the transcript:
“Lesley Stahl: I wish you could go to Greenland, watch these huge chunks of ice just falling into the ocean, raising the sea levels.
President Donald Trump: And you don’t know whether or not that would have happened with or without man. You don’t know.
Lesley Stahl: Well, your scientists, your scientists–
President Donald Trump: No, we have–
Lesley Stahl: At NOAA and NASA–
President Donald Trump: We have scientists that disagree with that.”
Trump questions that humans are causing the climate to change and says he has scientists that disagree with Leslie’s Alamist claims.
That’s pretty much how we want him to be looking at things. He’s looking at it like we look at it.
The alarmists have not made their case. Scientifically speaking. Simple as that. We are not obligated to give them the benefit of the doubt. And yet they clamor for it. Oh, how they clamor.
Climate change is a bandwagon that everybody BUT the common man has found advantageous to jump upon.
It is a crime, but only against the ordinary man.
You know, the people the Liberal Left are supposed to represent.
“You’d have to show me the scientists, because they have a very big political agenda, Lesley,” Trump said:
Hard boiled tv fake newers
https://goo.gl/images/xjdRaV
never give up on their agenda.