U.S. President - elect Donald Trump has sometimes called man -
made climate change a hoax and threatened to «cancel» the Paris agreement.
Not exact matches
Trump has said that
climate change is a
hoax, «created by and for the Chinese in order to
make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.»
If, as Perry has claimed,
climate change is a baseless
hoax, it
makes no sense that he should advocate for a technology explicitly designed to capture and sequester carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants for the sole purpose of averting the warming effect of those emissions.
I'm not a fan of the socialist realism school of writing, which says fiction should
make a point: big business destroys the planet;
climate change is a
hoax; Democrats assault children; Republicans kill women.
Yet some of the most frequently repeated claims
made by those engaged in the
climate change disinformation campaign have been outright untruths about such things as the claim that the entire scientific basis for human induced
climate change is a
hoax or that there is no evidence of human causation.
Trump frequently has called
climate change a
hoax perpetrated by and for the Chinese to
make U.S. manufacturing less competitive.
Man
made global warming /
climate change is a lie - a
hoax of the powers that be.
«The platform
makes for the starkest possible contrast with a party that just nominated Donald Trump — a man who has called
climate change a
hoax invented by and for the Chinese, who has denied basic reality such as the drought in California, and who has vowed to (try to) scuttle the unanimous agreement by the world's nations in Paris to take whatever measures are necessary to avert catastrophic warming and keep total warming «well below 2 °C.»
Case in point: Whitehouse arguably
made a tactical mistake this week by offering an amendment that simply forced a vote on whether
climate change is «real and not a
hoax.»
I was referring to the Amazon.com reviews, don't know how to write that more clearly: «Man -
made climate change is a
hoax.
Trump has
made no secret of his skepticism of man -
made climate change, perhaps most famously with his assertion in 2012 that
climate change was a
hoax perpetrated by China.
Despite this scientific consensus on
climate change, allegations have been
made that scientists and institutions involved in global warming research are part of a global scientific conspiracy or engaged in a manipulative
hoax.
In a speech given to the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works on July 28, 2003, entitled «The Science of
Climate Change», [14] Senator James Inhofe (Republican, for Oklahoma) concluded by asking the following question: «With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man -
made global warming is the greatest
hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?»
So he said
climate change is a
hoax, and then later when he was asked about it he said, well you know I was
making a joke but in fact I don't think it's a big problem is what, is the gist of his position, I think.»
Sackur: «I was about to say I'm assuming that you don't think that
climate change, given all the overwhelming scientific consensus, you don't think
climate change — man -
made climate change, the warming of our planet — you don't think it's a
hoax, do you?
President Trump has alleged that global warming is a notion invented by the Chinese in order to
make US manufacturing noncompetitive and, more recently, that
climate change is a
hoax.
While the argument rumbles on for some, with Exxon now accepting the existance of man -
made climate change, and with the
climate skeptic's favorite scientist actually being a vocal
climate action proponent, I'm ready to move on until someone shows me convincing evidence of this elaborate
hoax I keep hearing about.
Sure, Obama told some college kids that fighting global warming is important, and he
made a little noise at the DNC, when he noted that «
climate change is not a
hoax.»
The point of this story — remember, now, these are recommendations to the government from some egghead researchers at Harvard, and it's all based on a faulty premise and a
hoax, and that is that man -
made greenhouse gases are causing
climate change, global warming or whatever.
It's home, after all, to Senator Jim Inhofe, the most vocal, virulent denier of man -
made climate change around, dubbing it «a
hoax.»
I'm a «conspiracy theorist» for pointing out that not revealing who funds your research probably
makes you less credible, but an entire column claiming
climate change is a
hoax — you might even say, a «conspiracy» —
makes you a... what?