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Trump claims ‘no one is more into climate than me’ before dismissing crisis as ‘a thing called weather’ 🧵
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The former president was speaking to Fox Business on Monday when he was asked if he thought the climate is changing because of human activity.
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“The globe was going to freeze, and then they go ‘global warming’, then they couldn’t use that because the temperatures were actually quite cool, and many different things so that now they just talk about climate change. The climate has always been changing,” Trump said.

@Independent previously reported Trump had mockingly said at a rally that “the world is going to be destroyed because the oceans are going to rise 1/100 of an inch within the next 300 years. It’s going to kill everybody”.
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“It’s going to create more oceanfront property. That’s what it’s going to do,” he added.

Florida tops the list for sea level-rise risk in the US. Globally, the seas have risen six to eight inches over the last century, a rate that has accelerated in the past two decades.

Average sea level along the US coastline is expected to rise by 10 - 12 inches (25-30cm) in the next 30 years, according to a 2022 update from NOAA

And Trump’s private club Mar-a-Lago is unlikely to escape.
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