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.
The only way the intent of this part of the interview could be more obvious would be if she had called him a big poopyhead.
Trump got to the point here. Yes, the climate changes but we don’t know why and certainly it’s not a reason to destroy the economy.
“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.”
“You don’t know whether or not that would have happened with or without man. You don’t know,” Trump said.
“You’d have to show me the scientists, because they have a very big political agenda, Lesley,” Trump said.
I’m actually encouraged by this. Calling climate change “a hoax” was silly. Probably all sceptics accept that climate change / global warming has happened, while knowing that much of climate science is junk and close to fraudulent.
With these statements Trump puts himself pretty well in the main stream of climate scepticism. I love his comment about political agendas – how right he is!
Maybe some of the knowledge of his advisers, presumably including Happer, has finally rubbed off onto him!
Thank you Mr Trump, and I passionately hope you serve a second term.
Chris
“Stahl, who conducted a great interview in spite of the interviewee”
I watched the interview (or at least the first part about Climate Change because my wife made me turn it off because she was afraid I’d have a stroke). Stahl did not ‘conduct a great interview’ she conducted an attack. She had no intention of ‘interviewing’ him. She constantly interrupted Pres Trump when he was trying to answer a question to ask more/different questions/argue with him – a standard tactic when the interviewer (or prosecutor) wants to make the interviewee appear confused/stupid. I sneaked into the ‘man cave’ and watched a few more sections of the interview and she never changed.
The prima facia evidence that she had no intention of conducting an ‘interview’ was her banging the drum repeatedly to try to force him to ‘pledge’ not to fire Mueller. He responded that he wouldn’t ‘pledge’ to do anything, but had no intention of firing Mueller, but she kept at it. She wasn’t interviewing, she was attacking.
I remember when Bush the Elder walked out of an interview after being interrupted repeatedly.
The reporter (Dan Rather???) just sat there with a blank look on his face until the producer had the intelligence to go to commercial.
One of the great moments in political theater.
When asked about first lady mistrust, Trump replied : I feel the same way. I don’t trust everybody in the White House…. I’m not a baby. It’s a tough business. This is a vicious place. Washington, D.C. is a vicious, vicious place. The attacks, the– the bad mouthing, the speaking behind your back. –but– you know, and in my way, I feel very comfortable here.
Meanwhile Lawrence Kudlow , NEC National Economic Council, stresses the need to question, examine idea of manmade climate change.
The USA Liberals hate Trump because his support base is not as well educated as they think they are.
They have a political agenda and its clear what that is, to support the United Nations and its properganda entity the IPCC. So what is the UN’s long term desire ? Its obvious that of world government and the Black and Brown races will be the majority with the UN being the rulers.
But before that long term goal, they will continue to pretend that they care. Does not really matter just what they car e about, but they do truly CARE.
MJE
“Stahl, who conducted a great interview in spite of the interviewee…..”
Where to go for some factual or at least level headed reporting nowadays?
Stahl, who conducted a great interview in spite of the interviewee
said someone who either
1) didn’t watch the “interview”
or
2) doesn’t know what a great interview looks like.
Stahl is a hack.
Hey Leslie, it would help if you did some homework other than 24/7 politics.
Take for example the following in the Atlantic….
http://www.climate4you.com/images/NOAA%20SST-NorthAtlantic%20GlobalMonthlyTempSince1979%20With37monthRunningAverage.gif
http://climate4you.com/images/ArgoTimeSeriesTemp59N.JPG
http://climate4you.com/images/OceanTemp0-800mDepthAt59Nand30-0W.gif
…and its influence on the global measures
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_February_2018_v6.jpg
“Despite the interviewee..”?? Are Californians legally required to hate Trump? WTF?
Daily Caller : Lesley Stahl’s Discovery:
From her interview in 2016 where Trump “was in total shock” to this week :
“Right now, he’s so much more confident. He is truly president, and you felt it, I felt it, in this interview.”
As diGenova said now : “This is a different President. He is now in full control of his Presidency. He is playing everyone in his orbit. He knows exactly what needs to made public, and is holding it close to his vest. He is playing it like a masterful Stradivarius–for when it will have maximum impact; to use it at the maximum moment. Trump is in full control of his Presidency. You saw it last night with Lesley Stahl, when he said, “I’m President, and you’re not.” Throwing it in her face….
All that I can say is the North is still surrounded by ICE
North Pole that is……
To fault Trump for making a misstatement is to misunderstand how he moves the debate.
By making a bold statement like “Climate change is a Chinese hoax” he gets the media involved in a debate with him. The media jumps on his statement and there is back and forth between the MSM who carry water for the alarmists and those who are more skeptical. (I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump tweets out a link to this site)
Eventually more people find out that while the statement is not literally factual, there is much truth to the general contention that the climate actions proposed by alarmists to stave off disaster are a hoax and would have little effect on temperatures but big effects on bank accounts of American taxpayers.
I expect that the President will move this debate more than all the skeptical scientists have so far.