On holiday in Florida on Thursday, Trump wondered if global warming might not be such a problem after all. Climate scientists, however, have long warned against using individual weather events to ponder the existence or otherwise of global warming. On Friday, Anthony Leiserowitz, director of Yale University’s project on climate change communication, said Trump’s tweet was “scientifically ridiculous and demonstrably false”. of Maine - Climate Change Institute) https://t.co/kzuugeXi80 pic.twitter.com/gueOsp4yvuElsewhere, Matthew England, a climate scientist from the University of New South Wales, called Trump’s comment “an ignorant misconception of the way the earth’s climate works”. In any case, the US is already getting that “good old global warming”.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2017 05:26 UTC