Narcissistic Trump Buried Climate Change Report-Believes He Knows More Than 300 Climate Scientists

[CousinIT]

Donald Trump buried a climate change report because 'I don't believe it'

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/politics/donald-trump-climate-change/index.html

(CNN)President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed a study produced by his own administration, involving 13 federal agencies and more than 300 leading climate scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impact of climate change.

Why, you ask?

"I don't believe it," Trump told reporters on Monday, adding that he had read "some" of the report.

On one level, this shouldn't be surprising. Trump's views on climate change at this point are very, very well established.

Just over eight years ago, he tweeted this: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." In 2014, he penned this tweet: "It's late in July and it is really cold outside in New York. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING??? We need some fast! It's now CLIMATE CHANGE."

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All of which brings me to last Friday -- 48 hours after Trump's how-can-the-world's-climate-be-changing-if-it's-cold-in-half-the-country-on-one-day tweet -- and the moved-up release of the Fourth National Climate Assessment.

If you missed the study's release, well, that was the point. It was originally slated to be made public next month but was suddenly released on the day after Thanksgiving, aka Black Friday, when the country shops, eats, hangs with family and pays a total of zero attention to what's going on in politics. Outside of Christmas and the actual day of Thanksgiving, there's no better day to drop bad news that you don't want people to see.

Because there are VERY few coincidences in politics, the decision to speed up the release of the report to the day after Thanksgiving -- rather than, say, today -- was clearly a move by the administration to cover up what they see to be bad news. Or, better put, news that challenges Trump's fact-free position that all of this talk of global warming and climate change is belied by, uh, the fact that it was cold in the Northeast on the day before Thanksgiving.

[Garrett78]

1. I don't think he disbelieves it. He just says whatever serves his interests.

Obfuscate, control the media cycle, rile up the base, gain wealth and power. Rinse and repeat.

[struggle4progress]

3. +

[BigmanPigman]

2. He doesn't believe the CIA report on the Saudi

journalist's death being ordered by the Prince, he doesn't believe the reports that Russia hacked our election and now this. He isn't THAT big of a stupid idiot, I don't know what the Hell he is except bat shit CRAZY!

DANGER. DANGER. DANGER. DANGER

[anarch]

5. now do you really believe that he doesn't "believe" these things?

It is amazing to me, the Republican approach to the obviously imminent danger and likely inevitable and severe harm to our society from climate change (even taken regardless of the particular causes of such change)...it seems to be "well, fuck it, we can't really do much anyway that's going to help all that much, so we might as well just plunder and pillage while we still can." They literally do not care about the planet, or anyone who lives on it aside from themselves.

I don't really think they are so stupid as to think climate change "isn't real" at this point. They just see capitalistic profit as more important than...well, anything.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Exactly my point.

Sure he is as dumb as a sack of rocks but choosing to not believe scientific facts from a zillion sources is BS. He is just saying it to make himself and his rich pals richer...what do they care, they're die rich anyway. None of them even care about the future generations in their own families. Greedy AND mentally ill (sociopathic tendencies).

[jcgoldie]

4. Maybe if we could get an evil dictator to say it he would believe it...

Trump's criteria of belief seems to really go through the floor if someone like Putin, Kim Jong Un, or Mohammed bin Salman say just about anything.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. He just doesn't want regulations that cost big business

profits.

[Cha]

8. Nice going those who got Suckered in by

jill stein and susansarandon's LIES. Fucking Gaslighting "Green" party.

Enabled trump, the Climate Change denier, to be rigged in by the Russians.

[malaise]

9. He is convinced that he knows more than everyone on the planet

You'd better believe that.
What's more, the tugging media quote him as if the shit he spews is worth repeating.