Trump's Argument Against Climate Change

When Americans voted Donald Trump into office, they expected change however in terms of his environmental policy, the only thing that’s going to be changing is the climate. Trump has made it clear that he denies the existence climate change stating on twitter that, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” This claim has received criticism from scientists across the globe who are stating that climate change is not a belief but an observation. American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator Neil DeGrasse Tyson is known for his outspokenness on such issues in which he often says that science is not political. “When politicians start analyzing the science, …show more content…
The IPCC concluded that most of the warming that has been observed over the past 50 years is due to human activities and Its findings have been publicly endorsed by the national academies of science of all G-8 nations. Those who deny climate change generally do not have a background in science and do not debate with the climate scientists directly but instead fixate on the media, the general public and politicians in the hopes of delaying action climate change. The motive behind the delays is due to the fact that the majority of climate change deniers receive significant funding from coal and oil companies. In 1999, a coalition of coal and utility companies launched a disinformation campaign designed by a public relations firm to create the Information Council on the Environment (ICE), their goal was to “reposition global warming as theory rather than fact," a statement that was leaked from strategy papers developed by a polling firm used by the public relations company that managed the ICE