Even before Donald Trump hijacked the Republican Party, he was loudly declaring that the science of climate change, like President Barack Obama, had not been born in the United States. Back in the late 1980s, when climate change was first publicly identified as a threat, those sneaky Chinese must have bought or blackmailed prominent Western leaders and scientists to perpetrate this hoax. Some other people, especially in the coal, oil and automobile industries, have been denying the reality of climate change for decades, but only The Donald realised it was a Chinese plot. The United States is the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases (after China), accounting for about 16 per cent of global emissions. On the other hand, China is terrified of the predicted local impacts of climate change, and has installed more solar and wind power than any other country.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 16, 2016 16:00 UTC