Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the American Airlines Center on September 14, 2015 in Dallas, Texas. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
Following an invitation by Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama to President-Elect Donald Trump to come to the island nation and see that climate change is real, Redditor AnOnlineHandle compiled a list of tweets where Trump denies climate change, dating back to 2012.
According to the Indian Express, while speaking at the climate change conference in Marrakesh, Prime Minister Bainimarama “appealed to the new President to help the people in the small island countries which were the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.”
Bainimarama said:
I appeal to the President -elect Donald Trump to show leadership on this issue, by abandoning his current position that man-made climate change is a hoax. On the contrary, the global scientific consensus is that it (climate change) is very real and we must act decisively to avert catastrophe. As the second biggest carbon emitter on earth, the US must take responsibility for contributing to our collective response to this crisis and show leadership at this critical stage. We in the Pacific, in common with the whole world, look to America for their leadership and their systems and assistance on climate change, just as we looked to America during the dark days of World War II. And I say to the American people that you came to save us then and it is time for you to help us save now. I renew my offer to President-elect Trump to come to Fiji to see the effects of climate change himself, and to meet the Pacific island leaders face to face in Fiji and discuss the crisis we are facing along with low-lying areas all over the world, including parts of America.
On his campaign trial, President-Elect Trump repeatedly called climate change “a Chinese hoax.” According to the New York Times, Trump has “suggested he would withdraw the United States from the Paris accord, widely regarded as the most important United Nations achievement in years. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Obama invested a great deal of political energy in its success.”
Trump is now at odds with a majority of the world in regards to human-caused climate change. His appointment of Myron Ebell, a climate change denier, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, further raised eyebrows in early November.
Read the tweets below.
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice
Obama’s speech on climate change was scary. It will lower our standard of living and raise costs of fuel & food for everyone.
They changed the name from “global warming” to “climate change” after the term global warming just wasn’t working (it was too cold)!
The man made “climate change” that our “great” president should be focused on is of the NUCLEAR variety brought upon us because of weakness!
It’s not climate change,it’s global warming.Don’t let the dollar sucking wiseguys change names midstream because the first name didn’t work
The World Bank is tying poverty to ‘climate change’ http://t.co/wZ9ofqxJ And we wonder why international organizations are ineffective.
Don’t let the GLOBAL WARMING wiseguys get away with changing the name to CLIMATE CHANGE because the FACTS do not let GW tag to work anymore!
They call it “climate change” now because the words “global warming” didn’t work anymore. Same people fighting hard to keep it all going!
The Chinese talk of climate change and carbon footprint but don’t clean up their factories-but they sell us the equipment to clean up ours!
China loved Obama’s climate change speech yesterday. They laughed! It hastens their takeover of us as the leading world economy.
Great article on so-called climate change, formerly known as global warming. http://t.co/fEYAhQ7lGB
“@OldManConroy: It’s called “climate change”. No, they changed it to “climate change” when “global warming” wasn’t working anymore-too cold!
They only changed the term to CLIMATE CHANGE when the words GLOBAL WARMING didn’t work anymore. Come on people, get smart!
NBC News just called it the great freeze – coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?
The con artists changed the name from GLOBAL WARMING to CLIMATE CHANGE when GLOBAL WARMING was no longer working and credibility was lost!
“@devhop: @realDonaldTrump they renamed it Climate Change so it could be devastating either way the temperature goes.”
Massive record setting snowstorm and freezing temperatures in U.S. Smart that GLOBAL WARMING hoaxsters changed name to CLIMATE CHANGE! $$$$
Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air – not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense.
President Obama was terrible on @60Minutes tonight. He said CLIMATE CHANGE is the most important thing, not all of the current disasters!
They changed the name global warming to climate change because the concept of global warming just wasn’t working!
Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee – I’m in Los Angeles and it’s freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!
Another freezing day in the Spring – what is going on with “global warming”? Good move changing the name to “climate change” – sad!
The weather has been so cold for so long that the global warming HOAXSTERS were forced to change the name to climate change to keep $ flow!
Wow, record setting cold temperatures throughout large parts of the country. Must be global warming, I mean climate change!
As ISIS and Ebola spread like wildfire, the Obama administration just submitted a paper on how to stop climate change (aka global warming).
Tremendous cold wave hits large part of U.S. Lucky they changed the name from global warming to climate change – G.W. just doesn’t work!
The least number of hurricanes in the U.S. in decades. So they change global warming (too cold) to climate change-now what will they call it
Record setting cold and snow, ice caps massive! The only global warming we should fear is that caused by nuclear weapons – incompetent pols.
It’s late in July and it is really cold outside in New York. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING??? We need some fast! It’s now CLIMATE CHANGE
We are experiencing the coldest weather in more than two decades-most people never remember anything like this. GLOBAL WARMING anyone?
“@shaneandstamp: @realDonaldTrump your a respected businessman. Why do you deny peoples knowledge about climate change. You mean GLOBAL W
Wrong, used to be called global warming and when that name didn’t work, they deftly changed it to climate change-because it’s freezing!
Anticipate change and embrace it. Recognize new developments that you can capitalize on and use to open new doors.
Among the lowest temperatures EVER in much of the United States. Ice caps at record size. Changed name from GLOBAL WARMING to CLIMATE CHANGE
Denver, Minnesota and others are bracing for some of the coldest weather on record. What are the global warming geniuses saying about this?
We should be focused on clean and beautiful air-not expensive and business closing GLOBAL WARMING-a total hoax!
32º in New York – it’s freezing! Where the hell is global warming when you need it?
For those that constantly say that “global warming” is now “climate change”—they changed the name. The name global warming wasn’t working
It’s 46º (really cold) and snowing in New York on Memorial Day – tell the so-called “scientists” that we want global warming right now!
Obama said in his SOTU that “global warming is a fact.” Sure, about as factual as “if you like your healthcare, you can keep it.”
What the hell is going on with GLOBAL WARMING. The planet is freezing, the ice is building and the G.W. scientists are stuck-a total con job
You know the world is crazy when New York gets hit by a hurricane– and Florida doesn’t.
Record cold temperatures in July – 20 to 30 degrees colder than normal. What the hell happened to GLOBAL WARMING?
Do you believe @algore is blaming global warming for the hurricane?
Any and all weather events are used by the GLOBAL WARMING HOAXSTERS to justify higher taxes to save our planet! They don’t believe it $$$$!
We should be focusing on beautiful, clean air & not on wasteful & very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit! China & others are hurting our air
Baltimore just set a record for the coldest day in March in a long recorded history – 4 degrees. Other places likewise. Global warming con!
It’s freezing in New York—where the hell is global warming?
We should be focused on magnificently clean and healthy air and not distracted by the expensive hoax that is global warming!
It is really too bad that the scientists studying GLOBAL WARMING in Antarctica got stuck on their icebreaker because of massive ice and cold
It’s freezing outside, where the hell is “global warming”??
I wonder if the Rutgers coach who had the audacity to yell at the player is a proponent of global warming?
Resilience is part of the survival of the fittest formula–make sure you remain adaptable.
It’s snowing & freezing in NYC. What the hell ever happened to global warming?