Thursday, September 24, 2015

Trump disputes pope on climate change

Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump said Thursday he thinks Pope Francis is wrong on climate change.

"I'm not a believer in climate change," he said.

"I think that clean air is a pressing problem. You want to have clean air, you want to have clean water. That's very important to me, and I've won many environmental awards," Trump said.

But he said climate change and what people are referring to as extreme weather -- "that's the new one because weather tends to be a little more extreme" -- is a natural phenomenon.

"It's always weather. And frankly, it's been that way for so long, and honestly, weather changes," Trump added .... http://news.yahoo.com