Trump: Global warming isn't happening because there's 'a cooling, and then there's a heating'

Washington Examiner ^ | January 28, 2018 | by Laura Barrón-López

[Oldeconomybuyer]

President Trump appeared to not have a basic understanding of climate science in an interview with Piers Morgan airing Sunday.

Trump claimed that the earth is simultaneously heating and cooling and therefore climate change is not happening.

“There is a cooling, and there’s a heating. I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place,” Trump said.

The statement is contradicted by scientists across the globe, including those at NASA, who have said for years that greenhouse gases caused by fossil fuel pollution makes climate change worse and is contributing to an on average warming of the planet.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

This is why I love my President. He makes liberal/progressive heads explode.

[Vendome]

“I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place,” Trump said”

Seems like he gets it...

[BigEdLB]

Climate change. Weather is colder because there is no sunspots.

[gwjack]

It sounds like the physics behind the field of thermodynamics to me. Especially the first law of thermodynamics.

Gwjack

[Lurkinanloomin]

The climate has always changed.
That’s why they can’t be wrong.

Brilliant marketing for a theory about CO2 that is all hot air.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

More Trump quotes from Newsweek: "The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level," Trump said in the interview.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Precisely.
If the Sun really cycles down there will be nothing we can do about it, except adapt.

[bray]

Perhaps this genius can point to one piece of evidence of GW?

[cyclotic]

My son studies the sun at NASA. He confirms that we’re in a cooling trend.

[montag813]

Every time Trump says this, MILLIONS of minds are freed from the globalists.

[jimfree]

The writer seems to lack an understanding of climate science.

[vette6387]

“Brilliant marketing for a theory about CO2 that is all hot air.”

Speaking of “hot air,” I think we might have another really cold winter if we could just shut up Schumer and Pelosi. Talk about serious excess CO2! Just hope they don’t start eating a lot of bean burritos to express their “solidarity” with the Mexicans.

[Williams]

The first sentence is hilarious and preposterous

[editor-surveyor]

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Reality is so “inconvenient” for leftist control freaks!
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[ClearCase_guy]

The statement is contradicted by scientists across the globe

"Arguments from authority" are hardly science. These guys say what they are paid to say. The real evidence just doesn't support their position.

[infool7]

Darn that Milankovitch and his confounded cycles.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Obama of course was a PhD climatologist.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “The climate has always changed.” <<

Our climate shops a reord of sinusoidal swings in a dampened pattern of declining temperatures overall.
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[editor-surveyor]

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The Fake News Media have always appealed to those “authorities” that share their evil agenda.

[jospehm20]

Yep. It is entirely a political construct. It seems to me like the President has a much better understanding of the “science” then the idiots on the left do.