“We support your effort to ensure meaningful and effective measures to control climate change, an immediate challenge facing the United States and the world today,” declared the letter, which was signed by dozens of business leaders and published as an ad in the New York Times. As Grist reported in 2016, Trump and three of his children signed a 2009 letter to President Barack Obama calling for a global climate deal.
We’ll update it from time to time.ġ2/6/09: Trump signs a letter calling for urgent climate action. “Whatever happened to Global Warming?”įor those keeping score at home, here’s a timeline of the Donald’s thoughts and actions on global warming. “Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS,” he tweeted in November 2018. Then he declared his intention to pull the United States out of the historic Paris climate agreement. But as president, he quickly signed an executive order rolling back key Obama-era limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Some environmental activists initially pointed to Trump’s unpredictable statements as evidence that he might not follow through on his campaign pledges to dismantle the Obama administration’s climate legacy. He’s claimed it’s a scam invented by the Chinese, and he’s denied ever saying that. He’s called it an urgent problem, and he’s called it a hoax. Jeff Malet/ZUMA alexsl/iStock photo illustration by Ivylise Simonesĭonald Trump has a lot of things to say about global warming.