New York: US President Donald Trump urged European countries to abandon green energy initiatives, scoffing that, in decades past, some experts predicted that by the year 2000 “climate change will cause a global catastrophe.”
He said scientists predicted some nations might be “wiped off the map” by now, but insisted that’s “not happening.”
Actually, climate change has indeed triggered rising sea levels and intensifying storms that have caused small island nations to shrink. Such phenomenon has also cost enormous sums of money for disaster response, cleanup and rebuilding in the U.S. and around the world.
Nonetheless, Trump insisted it was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world in my opinion.”
He said “all of these predictions were wrong” and “made by stupid people,” adding