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December 29, 2017

Trump Uses Winter Weather to Try to Cast Doubt Upon Global Warming Science
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As a record-breaking cold spell continues to freeze parts of the
Northeast and Midwest United States, President Trump took to Twitter to
try to use this week's cold weather as an opportunity to cast doubt upon
many decades of scientific evidence on global warming. Trump tweeted,
"In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record. Perhaps
we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our
Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS
to protect against. Bundle up!" Scientists roundly refuted and ridiculed
Trump's tweet, with one climate scientist calling it "an ignorant
misconception." President Obama's U.S. climate change envoy, Todd Stern,
responded, "Of course it sometimes gets very cold. Five minutes' worth
of education would tell you that what matters are global averages, and
those are going implacably up." California Congressmember Ted Lieu
condemned Trump, tweeting, "Either @real Donald Trump doesn't understand
the science behind climate change, or he is intentionally misleading the
American people." The record-breaking cold has smashed temperature
records in parts of the United States, including in International Falls,
Minnesota, where the temperature hit a record 37 degrees Fahrenheit
below zero earlier this week.


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