During the VP debate Tuesday, Trump’s running mate spewed climate change denial. Scientists were unimpressed
During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), Vance dismissed climate change as « weird science », skeptically characterizing the scientific consensus about burning fossil fuels as « this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change. » Top climate scientists were unimpressed with Vance’s posturing.
These included University of Pennsylvania climatologist Dr. Michael E. Mann, who wrote to Salon that he could not « stomach Vance’s constant lies and the lack of fact-checking », from CBS debate hosts, adding that « the reality is that the world’s scientists say that carbon emissions cause climate change. Trump has dismissed climate change as a hoax. Denial of the threat to our civilization posed by climate change, alone, is disqualifying for the Trump-Vance ticket. »
« What he said was just completely wrong, but not a surprise », Glenn « The Hurricane » Schwartz, said. He was a meteorologist for NBC’s Philadelphia affiliate until the 1980s and, analogous to the fictional tornado chasers in « Twisters », Schwartz chased hurricanes and other extreme storms in real life.
Schwartz added that there are three facts about climate change which cannot be denied: « Number one, carbon dioxide is increasing, which increases the temperatures of the earth. Number two, it’s us doing the increase. Number three, things will keep getting worse unless we start producing those three things.
