Guess Which Republican Presidential Candidate Believes in Climate Change?

May 24, 2016

May 24, 2016 – The man who has called global warming a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government has applied to the Irish government for permission to shore up the coastline of his seaside golf resort, the Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in County Clare.

In his application for a permit he cites “increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather.” These two conditions are very much evidence of climate change and if it is impacting him personally, the Donald is a “believer.” States South Carolina Republican Representative, Bob Inglis, not exactly a person known to be a strong climate change advocate, “Donald Trump is working to ensure his at-risk properties and his company is trying to figure out how to deal with sea level rise. Meanwhile, he’s saying things to audiences that he must know are not true. … You have a soft place in your heart for people who are honestly ignorant, but people who are deceitful, that’s a different thing.”

Extreme weather events have produced significant shoreline erosion in Trump’s investment. A single storm in 2014 took out eight meters (over 26 feet) of frontage. He has asked County Clare officials to give him permission to distribute over 200,000 tons of rock along 1.2 kilometers (2 miles) of beachfront. In his request he submitted an environmental impact statement that described rising sea levels as the primary reason. The Donald’s application acknowledges an Irish government study that states “If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates…..around much of the coastline of Ireland. In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring.” Trump argues that taking action is unavoidable in light of the evidence.

So the Donald who has tweeted, “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive,” and who recently stated “I’m not a believer in global warming. And I’m not a believer in man-made global warming” is obviously a believer when it comes to his pocketbook.

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