Donald Trump Dismisses Global Warming Threat: ‘Weather Changes’

During a post-debate interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Donald Trump said that he didn’t think global warming was a problem at all, dismissing it as nothing more than “weather changes.”

The Council of Foreign Relations Richard Haas asked Trump whether or not he considered global warming a threat. “I consider climate change to be not one of our big problems. I consider it to be not a big problem at all,” Trump said.

“I think it’s weather; I think it’s weather changes,” Trump said. “There could be some man-made something. But, you know, if you look at China, they’re doing nothing about it, other countries are doing nothing about it.  It’s a big planet. ”

“I do not view — I view climate change as being– the big problem we have is nuclear climate change. That’s what our climate change is and that’s our problem,” he concluded.

“Putin is doing it,” Trump added. “I don’t believe Putin is a believer at all.  Putin is doing it for his own economic advantage if he is actually in favor of climate change.”

Watch, via MSNBC.

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