Climate change is a hoax, says Trump.
AB Wire
The heat is on. More so, after the conventions of the Republicans and Democrats are over and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been chosen the official candidates of their parties and now the real fight starts in the United States where citizens will elect their next president in November.
And, this heat is already raising the temperature when climate change has become a much-contested battle as for Trump, it is a Chinese hoax, while for Clinton, it is a clear and present danger.
She made it loud and clear that climate change will be a part of her campaign when, the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia aired a five and a half minute video about climate change that featured Don Cheadle, Jack Black, America Ferrera, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and other celebs. Instead of scientists and hockey sticks, it had forest fires, Hurricane Sandy survivors, and a summer blockbuster soundtrack. The gist: Climate change is causing awful things in America and abroad. If you care to stop it, vote for Hillary Clinton.
Through this film, Democrats want to convince people that climate change matters. That will also be an elective reply to the rival candidate, Donald Trump who has been calling global warming a hoax.
The US media has declared, “For or against, in 2016, every vote is a climate vote.” (See: http://www.wired.com/2016/07/year-every-vote-vote-climate-change/)
It must be noted Clinton and Trump have locked horns on climate as they’re polar apart on this issue. It’s additionally elevated by Obama’s executive actions to cut emissions at power plants and by the Paris climate agreement.
It should be reminded that, may back in November 2012, Trump have tweeted that “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” Although, later he backed off his claim after Sanders noted them in January on NBC’s Meet the Press, calling the Chinese link a “joke.”
And, Trump loves this word as on Dec. 30, 2015, he told the crowd at a rally in Hilton Head, S.C., “Obama’s talking about all of this with the global warming and … a lot of it’s a hoax. It’s a hoax. I mean, it’s a money-making industry, okay? It’s a hoax, a lot of it.” That’s three times using “hoax” in one sentence!
Trump has derided the science of climate change and has called it a “hoax” created by the Chinese. But, then, he invoked the dangers of climate change in a bid to protect one of his golf courses from the dangers of sea level rise!
Now, it’s up to the Americans to make their nation great once again or not—great in terms of setting an example of sustainable life—or great in terms of destroying the world by their excessively wasteful lifestyle.