Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump thinks nuclear war is more dangerous than global warming, and one green media outlet is already furious.
“Well I just think we have much bigger risks, Trump said in a Monday interview with The Washington Post when asked if he’d considered the risks global warming may cause to his business. “I mean I think we have militarily tremendous risks. I think we’re in tremendous peril. I think our biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear weapons. The biggest risk to the world, to me – I know President Obama thought it was climate change – to me the biggest risk is nuclear weapons.”
Climate Change News, a left-leaning media outlet, has already attacked Trump for the statement, because unspecified scientists label global warming a “climate emergency.” The outlet has previously criticized Trump for stating that China is more responsible for global warming than America, as the communist country produces more carbon dioxide (CO2). China overtook America as the world’s largest emitter of CO2 in 2007.
Vox, targeted Trump in September for a previous statement about how nuclear weapons are more dangerous than global warming.
Trump has called global warming a “hoax,” “mythical,” a “con job,” “nonexistent,” and “bullshit.” He views policies created to fight global warming as hurting U.S. manufacturing competitiveness with China.
“I am not a great believer in man-made climate change,” Trump said. “I’m not a great believer. There is certainly a change in weather that goes – if you look, they had global cooling in the 1920s and now they have global warming, although now they don’t know if they have global warming. They call it all sorts of different things; now they’re using ‘extreme weather’ I guess more than any other phrase.”
“I am not – I know it hurts me with this room, and I know it’s probably a killer with this room – but I am not a believer. Perhaps there’s a minor effect, but I’m not a big believer in man-made climate change,” he said.
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