Trump’s Claiming The Climate Crisis A “Hoax” Becomes His Worst Falsehood!

By Donald A. Collins | 2 October 2024
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These days we hear lots of solid evidence citing Trump’s role in dividing and corrupting America’s democratic institutions.

That history will get constant repetition from media commentators now and by historians in years to come. Undermining trust in voting honesty and making our Supreme Court turn into a slimy ideological implementer of Christian Nationalist decisions narrowing the separation of church and state to a Constitution crisis.

However, as the three articles cited below Trump’s most egregious legacy is claiming world environmental dangers a hoax.

First, citing a BBC Quote: So what does Trump actually believe?

Commentators have suggested that Mr Trump tends to conflate climate change with environmentalism more generally.

“He doesn’t really understand what climate change is about,” says Professor Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor at the University of Columbia.

Meanwhile, Joseph Goffman, executive director of Harvard’s Environmental Law Programme, argues that Mr Trump “believes nothing on climate change – he’s a climate nihilist”.

Mr Trump’s position is based on his need to appeal to “the part of the Republican establishment that rejects climate policy,” Mr Goffman, who previously worked as Democratic staff director on the Senate environmental committee, adds.

Joseph Pinion, a Republican strategist who has called for more action on climate change, also argues that Mr Trump looks at the issue from a political, rather than a moral perspective.

“He’s not going to win running on the environment,” Mr Pinion says. “In America, climate is not an issue, so the reason it is not an issue for President Trump is because he cares about winning. And the reason Democrats are OK with it not being a priority for them, is because they want to beat him.”

Read here.

Next note the historically damaging hurricane Helene that took its tropical force from Florida into Georgia and the Carolinas is predicted to forebode further catastrophes as prospects for more storms heighten!

With the number of Helene’s victims reaching at least 100 on Monday, the powerful storm that swept the Southeast and triggered epic rainfall has become one of the deadliest hurricanes to make landfall on the U.S. mainland in the modern era.

Since 1950, only eight hurricanes have claimed more than 100 lives in the contiguous 48 states. Hurricane Harvey, which flooded Houston and the surrounding region in 2017, killed 103.

Deaths have been reported by officials in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee. Falling trees was the biggest cause of death among they preliminary reports.

Hundreds of people remain missing, and search and rescue operations were underway Monday in Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee, officials said. Trained teams are responding from across the country, said Diana Marty, overseeing search operations in Pinellas County, Florida, where at least nine deaths have been reported as a result of the historic storm surge Helene pushed in along the coast.

Cataclysmic flooding has devastated communities along the Blue Ridge mountains from Georgia into Tennessee. Helene, and a wave of moisture ahead of the hurricane, dumped an overwhelming 10 to 30 inches of rain. forcing raging torrents of water from steep ridges into narrow valleys.

At least 35 people dead in one NC county

North Carolina has been especially hard hit. The confirmed death toll in Buncombe County alone climbed to 35 and was expected to rise, officials said. About 600 missing persons reports remain, although many are expected to be resolved when communications are restored, authorities said.

Read the full story from USA Today here.

Finally, the headline from the admittedly Democrat website from April 22, 2024 “Donald the Denier: Donald Trump Has Repeatedly Called Climate Change a ‘Hoax'” which presents facts subscribed to by major media sources which bear no partisan interpretation.

Here are just a few of Trump’s disastrous perceptions of the climate issue:

Washington Post: “Trump reiterated some of his frequently repeated falsehoods and petty grievances. ‘The global warming hoax, it just never ends,’ he said. He mocked the concept of sea levels rising, disputing widely held science. ‘To which I say, great, we have more waterfront property,’ he said. ‘There was a big thing about global cooling — what will be next?’ he said. Trump said he was more concerned about ‘nuclear warming’ than global warming.”

New York Times: “Over four years, the Trump administration dismantled major climate policies and rolled back many more rules governing clean air, water, wildlife and toxic chemicals.”

Associated Press: “[Trump] rolled back dozens of environmental rules he considered overly burdensome on businesses. Many of the regulations were designed to protect the environment and public health, but were viewed by the Trump administration as costly and unnecessary.”

Politico: “Trump is once again seeking deep and unrealistic cuts to most federal agency budgets … The EPA’s budget would see a nearly 27 percent chop.”

Slate: “In Trump’s budget, which was also released today, the discretionary budget for the … [EPA] is cut by $2.8 billion.”

Rolling Stone: “[Trump] dismissed the idea that climate change is anything to worry about. ‘The oceans are going to rise 1/100 th of an inch in the next 300 years and it’s going to kill everybody,’ he said sarcastically. ‘It’s going create more oceanfront property, that’s what it’s going to do.’”

Trump repeatedly contradicted his own administration’s findings about the threat of climate change, including firing the scientist responsible for assessing climate change.

Axios: “Trump says he doesn’t believe his administration’s climate report”

New York Times: “Trump Administration’s Strategy On Climate: Try To Bury Its Own Scientific Report”

New York Times: “Trump Administration Removes Scientist in Charge of Assessing Climate Change”

“The White House has removed the scientist responsible for the National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s premier contribution to climate knowledge and the foundation for regulations to combat global warming, in what critics interpreted as the latest sign that the Trump administration intends to use its remaining months in office to continue impeding climate science and policy.”

Associated Press: “Government climate report contradicts Trump, warns of worsening US disasters”

While President Biden spearheaded the Inflation Reduction Act, Trump is pushing to repeal the signature legislation that is tackling the climate crisis. 

Financial Times: “Donald Trump would gut Joe Biden’s landmark IRA climate law if elected”

“Donald Trump is planning to gut US President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law, increase investment in fossil fuels and roll back regulations aimed at accelerating the transition to electric vehicles if he is elected next year. … The Inflation Reduction Act — the centrepiece of Biden’s economic strategy, with $369bn in tax breaks and subsidies for clean energy — would be in Trump’s crosshairs.”

CNBC: “The [Inflation Reduction Act], which President Joe Biden signed into law in August, is the most aggressive climate investment ever taken by Congress and is expected to slash the country’s planet-warming carbon emissions by about 40% this decade and move the country toward a net-zero economy by 2050.”

Bloomberg: “Between last August, when President Joe Biden’s  landmark climate bill became law, and the end of January, companies have announced more than 100,000 clean energy jobs in the US, according to an analysis released Monday by the nonprofit advocacy group Climate Power.”

Trump is also vowing to once again pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, which President Biden rejoined after Trump damaged international trust in the U.S. and abdicated America’s role as a global leader in addressing climate change.

Trump: “We will again get out of Paris. … So, get those proposals ready now, because we are going to put thousands of Americans to work building the power plants, pipelines, grids, ports, refineries, and shipping terminals of tomorrow.”

NPR: “In one of his first acts in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to have the United States rejoin the Paris climate agreement, the largest international effort to curb global warming. … Biden’s move to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement signals to the world that the U.S. is serious about addressing climate change again, and that it will have a seat at the table when world leaders meet in Glasgow to make new climate pledges later this year.”

Politico: “The U.S. under former President Donald Trump backslid in terms of international climate leadership, essentially standing still on carbon emissions when the world drastically needed to ramp up its climate-fighting efforts.”

Reuters: “With Trump’s action, the United States will walk away from nearly every other nation in the world on one of the pressing global issues of the 21st century.”

Vox: “Trump pulling out of the Paris climate agreement is great news … for China”

Trump is spreading climate change denialism to help his wealthy Big Oil and Gas friends.

Read the entire post here.

The decision Americans make on November 5th has been characterized as the most important in our history, but in this case no strong continuing environmental actions as has been initiated by the Biden Administration will have enormous implications for the entire planet. Remember we are already well started on the Sixth Extinction so well documented by solid scientific evidence!

Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 50 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?”, “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us”, “Economic Growth: A Cancer on all Earthly Life”, “On the Precipice of Political Disaster in 2024”, “Democracy at Red State Risk” and “Does Trump Go to Jail or to The Oval Office?”.

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