The Science Trump Got Wrong in the Post Interview
by Jessica McDonald
Nov 28, 2018
3 minutes
In a Nov. 27 interview with the Washington Post, President Donald Trump made a series of inaccurate statements. He questioned the cause of climate change, praised a nonexistent method for wildfire prevention and even recycled a long-debunked news story from the 1970s.
The president explained, among other things, why he does not accept the findings of the National Climate Assessment — a government report released on Black Friday that details the current and potential impact of climate change on the United States.
We’ve heard most of these ideas before, and have, with links to our past stories.
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