WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 26: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during a Women’s History Month event in the East Room of the White House on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced the launch of a new caucus named the Republican Women’s Caucus, led by U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL). (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Windmills cause cancer. They’re killing birds and whales. Electric vehicles don’t work. Have you heard about the electric sharks? Climate change is a hoax . There are many things Donald Trump has said about climate change and renewable energy that are difficult to make sense of, but Trump’s newest line on climate change is both dumbfounding and truly dangerous: He is now determined to convince the world that climate change is a good thing. Trump has certainly downplayed the effects of climate change in the past. He’s claimed rising sea levels will create more beachfront property, which would seem to be a misunderstanding of how land works. He’s talked about how people would actually be happy if it was a little warmer outside. Even Trump adviser Elon Musk, who runs an EV company, has downplayed the threat of climate change in recent months. Now, Trump is aiming to use the power of the federal government to reframe climate change as something that will benefit humanity. Trump is reportedly intent on rewriting an Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding , which found greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and welfare, in order to downplay the negative effects of climate change. He’s working to decimate climate reporting in general. He also wants to muddy the waters by producing a National Climate Assessment written by climate deniers who argue that the impacts of climate change are overstated — or would even […]
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