'They gave us 12 years to live', Trump calls climate science a 'conspiracy': Video
U.S. President Donald Trump denounced what he described as a climate “conspiracy” while speaking at the U.S.–Saudi Investment Forum on Wednesday, November 19, dismissing established climate science and accusing advocates of shifting terminology to suit their agenda.
“They have a new word — climate change. It used to be global warming,” Trump said. “Well, that didn’t work because it started coming down. They did the global cooling thing. Then they just said, we can’t keep up with this… So we’ll go with the perfect words: climate change.”
Trump went on to argue that the term is used to explain any weather pattern. “If it rains, if it snows, if it’s warm, it’s climate change that’s destroying the world,” he said, adding that past predictions about global catastrophe were exaggerated. He claimed the planet “got actually much cooler” and called the movement “a little conspiracy,” saying it “has to be investigated immediately.”
The remarks came on the second day of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the United States, his first in eight years and one that Trump has framed as close to a state visit, despite the Crown Prince not being Saudi Arabia’s head of state.
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