11/27/2018

CLIMATE CHANGE/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a wide-ranging interview, President Donald Trump confronted why he’s voiced skepticism on a climate change report issued over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, telling the Washington Post “I don’t see” the devastating climate change effects warned about in the report. ‘One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers,’ the president said of climate change. ‘You look at our air and our water and it’s right now at a record clean.’ The 1,600-page National Climate Assessment, issued by the Trump administration, details the climate and economic impacts U.S. residents will see if drastic action is not taken to address climate change. The report notes in a worst-case scenario, top scientists from 13 federal agencies say climate change – primarily caused by human activity – could deliver a 10 percent hit to the nation’s GDP by the end of the century.”

Christal Hayes, “Trump is skeptical of climate change report because of his ‘high levels of intelligence’,” USA Today November 27, 2018 10:40 pm