(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Since President Trump took office, environmentalists have accused his administration of burying its head in the sand when it comes to climate change. In public, President Trump and his deputies have downplayed or outright dismissed rising sea levels, more frequent droughts and other effects of man-made global warming. The line of thinking in the document underscores not only the sheer difficulty of mitigating climate change and the severity of its impacts, but also the Trump administration's mixed messages on the issue. Before becoming president, he has dismissed global warming as "nonsense" and a "hoax" perpetuated by China. "I think the climate change is just a very, very expensive form of tax," he said in a 2016 interview.

Source: Washington Post October 01, 2018 12:35 UTC