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Trump Uses Winter Weather to Try to Cast Doubt Upon Global Warming Science

HeadlineDec 29, 2017

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 @realDonaldTrump 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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