“Climate change,” he claimed, “is the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and “renewable energy is inflicting expensive energy costs on Europe”. Of course, Trump has never sought to hide his views on global climate. Trump: “The executive director of the UN Environmental Programme predicted that by the year 2000, climate change would cause a global catastrophe. Climate change, if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell happens, it’s climate change. In the 1970s, the political strategist Frank Luntz suggested conservative politicians and journalists should adopt the term “climate change” as it was more suggestive of a natural phenomenon.
