On Climate Change, Donald Trump Has No Clue What He Is Talking About

US president-elect Donald
 Trump - is he actually
ignorant of climate
 change or wilfully ignorant?

Much has been made in the Indian media about the US President-elect Donald Trump’s supposed changed stance towards global warming and the Paris Agreement on climate change. His stand during the presidential campaign had been that he would pull the US out of the Paris Agreement. But when queried about climate change in the course of a long interaction with the editors and senior columnists of the New York Times at their office on November 23, Trump is believed to have said he has “an open mind to it”.

On reading the transcript of the interaction in detail, one hardly gets a sense, contrary to what has been reported in India and what may now be the perception of many, that he is open about the issue. Two things in fact stand out: one, and most glaring, how sceptical Donald Trump is about global warming. Even while he says he has an open mind – he uses the term six times – the patchy information he spouts is one of a sceptic. Two, his scepticism is not a healthy, informed scepticism but one based on lazy, lamentable ignorance.

Read “The Wire” story - “On Climate Change, Donald Trump Has No Clue What He Is Talking About.”

(Sadly, Donald Trump is not alone in his ignorance, willing or otherwise, of climate change as it is a common among many segments of our communities – Robert McLean)