"Trump: ‘I’m Not A Big Believer In Man-Made Climate Change.’"

"Give Donald Trump credit for consistency. The Republican presidential front-runner repeatedly has said he isn’t “a believer” that humans have played a significant role in the Earth’s changing climate. He said as much in an interview with talk show host Hugh Hewitt last year. He told “Fox & Friends” earlier this year that climate change “is just a very, very expensive form of tax. A lot of people are making a lot of money.”

In his own tweets, Trump has called the concept of global warming everything from a “hoax” to “bulls—” to a scheme “created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” (He later said he was joking about the China tweet). ...

Trump’s stance on climate change, of course, puts him at odds with the vast majority of the world’s scientists, who agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are likely a result of human activity and are playing out in the form of rising seas, growing carbon dioxide emissions and melting glaciers.

In a wide-ranging meeting Monday with The Washington Post editorial board, Trump again dismissed man-made climate change."

Brady Dennis reports for the Washington Post March 22, 2016.

SEE ALSO:

"Donald Trump’s Unsettling Nonsense On Weather And Climate" (Washington Post)

"Donald Trump Is "Not a Big Believer" in Climate Change" (Mother Jones)

"A Scrappy Group Whose Scorecard Isn't For The Fainthearted" (E&E Daily)

"Donald Trump Bewilderingly Denies That Climate Change Poses A Serious Risk" (Mashable)

"How Trump And Company Warmed To Climate Change" (MSNBC)

"Donald Trump On Climate Change: ‘I Believe It Goes Up And It Goes Down’" (Huffington Post: 9/22/15)