Can you imagine this mentality representing the United States of America at the Climate Summit?

[spanone]

09/22/2015

Donald Trump On Climate Change:

'I Believe It Goes Up And It Goes Down'
"So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather."

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has rendered his opinion on climate change, and it is characteristically off-kilter.

"Unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there's weather. I believe there's change," Trump told radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Monday.

In a confusing exchange with Hewitt, Trump rattled off several non sequiturs on global temperatures. Trump says that "people in the 1920s thought the Earth was cooling, now it's global warming," implying that all subsequent climate science is nonsense.

As David Roberts at Vox points out, scientists never actually believed that the Earth was cooling. Trump appears to be repeating talking points from climate change deniers, who often rely on a 1970s article in Newsweek for their research on "global cooling." The author of that article has made it clear that the Earth is, in fact, warming and that climate deniers should stop using his article as evidence that it's not.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-global-warming_5601d04fe4b08820d91aa753

[saltpoint]

1. Scary as Trump is, his supporters

like him because they are drawn to his worst features.

Including anti-intellectualism. Trump tends to condemn things he doesn't feel like researching.

Not good for a public servant, especially at the level of work Trump's applying for.

[Turbineguy]

2. If Trump gets in

who will be "the Leader of the Free World"?

[3catwoman3]

3. I cannot imagine this buffoon/carnival barker representing...

...the United States on anything.

[spanone]

4. Bingo!