In shift, Trump says humans may be causing global warming
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump appears to be softening his tone on whether climate change is real and on his stated plans to scrap the recent multinational agreement to limit carbon emissions.
In a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday with editors and reporters at The New York Times, Trump said he would "keep an open mind" about the Paris accord, which he has repeatedly said he planned to either renegotiate or cancel if elected.
Trump was also reported to have affirmed in the interview held two weeks after the election that human activity and global warming may be linked. "I think there is some connectivity," he said. "Some, something. It depends on how much."
That's a significant shift from Trump's past statements that climate change is a "hoax" perpetrated by the Chinese to make US manufacturing less competitive. Trump has also cited winter cold snaps as evidence that climate change is a "con job" and a "myth."
"The entire country is FREEZING -- we desperately need a heavy dose of global warming, and fast! Ice caps size reaches all time high," Trump tweeted during a 2014 blizzard.
