President Donald Trump, who has famously called climate change a \u00ab\u00a0hoax, \u00a0\u00bb does believe the climate is changing and that humans have a role in it, U. N. Ambassador Nikki Haley told CNN’s Jake Tapper.<\/b>
\nPresident Donald Trump, who has famously called climate change a \u00ab\u00a0hoax, \u00a0\u00bb does believe the climate is changing and that humans have a role in it, U. N. Ambassador Nikki Haley told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
\u00ab\u00a0President Trump believes the climate is changing and he believes pollutants are part of the equation, \u00a0\u00bb Haley said in an interview on \u00ab\u00a0State of the Union, \u00a0\u00bb which will be fully aired Sunday.
\u00ab\u00a0The rest of the world wanted to tell us how to do it, and we’re saying, we will do it, but we will do it under our terms.\u00a0\u00bb She said Trump pulled out of the pact \u00ab\u00a0because it wasn’t possible to meet the conditions\u00a0\u00bb under the pact agreed to under President Barack Obama.
Her remarks come amid global criticism of Trump for withdrawing from the United States from the Paris climate pact, which was ratified by nearly 150 countries who agreed to curb carbon emissions to mitigate global warming. Coal-fired power plants in the United States, as elsewhere, would have to have meet environmental standards under the pact.
Trump has made contradictory statements about what exactly he believes amid mounting pressure from other world leaders, the scientific community and even Pope Francis, who has urged urgent action to change human activity causing harm to the environment. The president has said flat out that climate change is \u00ab\u00a0nonexistent\u00a0\u00bb but also at different times hedged his answer, and said there could be some connection to human activity.
Haley, the former South Carolina governor who Trump appointed to the United Nations post, was asked to elaborate on the president’s thinking and told Tapper \u00ab\u00a0He knows that it’s changing and that the U. S. has to be responsible for it and that’s what we’re going to do.\u00a0\u00bb She said the U. S. pulled out of the Paris pact because the rules hurt U. S. businesses.
\u00ab\u00a0Just because the U. S. got out of a club doesn’t mean we aren’t going to care about the environment, \u00a0\u00bb she said.
During Friday’s daily press briefing, both White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt said that they had not had a discussion with the president on his views on climate change and could not answer questions about what the president thought.
\u00ab\u00a0I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris, \u00a0\u00bb Trump said during his announcement that he was pulling out of the pact. And though some Trump supporters carried \u00ab\u00a0Pittsburgh not Paris\u00a0\u00bb signs outside the White House Saturday, the mayor of Pittsburgh denounced the president’s move to abandon the global pact meant to safeguard the environment.
In response to Trump’s withdrawal from the pact, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also pledged to pay up to $15 million to support the U. N. agency that helps countries implement the agreement.
\u00ab\u00a0Americans will honor and fulfill the Paris agreement by leading from the bottom up – and there isn’t anything Washington can do to stop us, \u00a0\u00bb said Bloomberg, who appeared Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.<\/p>\n

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