Trump Can’t Stop Lying

During last week’s presidential debate Donald Trump denied that he had routinely claimed “climate change” to be a hoax. 

After just 18 minutes of the debate, conversation between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump quickly transitioned to renewable energy jobs as they discussed the economy. During that exchange, Clinton slipped in the well-known fact that Trump believes climate change is "a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese." Though he has called climate change a hoax numerous times since 2012, he still interrupted Clinton to reject that claim.

Here are 11 times Donald Trump called climate change a hoax—compiled by the Sierra Club Political Committee—despite him telling 100 million people last night that he never said it:

But, perhaps it is more telling who Trump has employed as his climate change advisor.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s energy policy to dig, drill, and frack as much fossil fuel out of the ground as possible only really works by denying two realities.

The first reality denied is that there is no global agreement to move the world away from the fuels that Trump thinks are the future. The second reality denied, of course, is the existence of decades of scientific evidence linking fossil fuel burning to dangerous climate change.

So with this in mind, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) Myron Ebell seems a perfect addition to Trump’s team.

As the U.S. media picks through the entrails from the first presidential debate, a few hours earlier it was revealed that should Trump win, Ebell would lead the Republican’s “EPA transition team” that would strip the agency of key powers.

Ebell has long fought the legitimacy of climate science while promoting fossil fuels — epitomizing Trump’s current approach to energy and climate science.  For the best part of 20 years, Ebell has been actively working in favor of the fossil fuel industry by attempting to undermine climate science.

A Trump victory would be more than a disaster for the United States, it would be a catastrophe for the entire planet.

Snow In Hawaii – More Proof That Climate Change is a Hoax

Considering that a U.S. Senator displayed a snowball in the Senate last year as “proof” of the great climate change hoax, it would be no surprise to hear that this week’s snowfall on Mauna Kea is more “proof” of this monumental hoax.  That this U.S. Senator is also a major recipient of contributions from oil and gas companies is not so much of a surprise.  But, to be honest, neither is a dusting of snow on a 13,796 foot (4205 meters) mountain, it’s actually pretty routine.

Residents of Hawaii’s Big Island woke on Tuesday to find the summit of Mauna Kea volcano dusted with a fresh layer of summer snow. Considered both the world’s tallest volcano and its tallest mountain (when measured from the ocean floor),

Mauna Kea occasionally sees snow. But a storm in mid-June is relatively bizarre. The National Weather Service in Honolulu said the dusting resulted from a combination of passing precipitation and “cold upper level temperatures.”

On the other hand, climate change is having a profound real impact on overall temperatures in the American Southwest.  It appears that the only hoax around climate change is the U.S. Senator whose denial has more to do with his corporate paymasters than his country (or the world for that matter).

Circled cities forecasting record heat on June 20

An unusually severe heat wave is projected to roast the Southwest beginning late this week and lasting into next. At the peak of the heat, Phoenix may come close to its all-time record high temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit, with extraordinary heat in Las Vegas and Death Valley, California as well.

 The increasingly imbalanced ratio of record highs to lows is an indicator of how climate change is altering the weather in favor of more warm extremes across the country. This trend is likely to continue, and even grow worse, if emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels continue apace.
 

Americans should be embarrassed to be represented by buffoons in Congress.  Of course we have a presidential candidate that makes the same claim.  Ignorance needs company apparently.