Trump slammed for bizarre global warming tweet

US President Donald Trump has come under fire for making yet another strange statement about global warming, a phenomenon that he has often regarded as a “hoax.”

The Republican president took to Twitter on Wednesday evening to hammer home his point using recent forecasts that some parts of America could experience a cold wave this week.

“Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?” Trump wrote from the comfort of his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, where he will be spending the Thanksgiving weekend.

Forecasters say this could be the coldest late November on record in the country’s Northeast, with New York City already issuing an extreme cold weather alert and Boston bracing for what is expected to be the coldest Thanksgiving on record.

However, Trump’s suggestion that the cold weather debunks climate change is wrong because they are two separate issues.

According to NASA, weather situations like raininess, cloudiness, humidity and etc are short-term events while climate is a measurement of weather over time.

“In most places, weather can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and season-to-season. Climate, however, is the average of weather over time and space,” the American space agency says on its website. “An easy way to remember the difference is that climate is what you expect, like a very hot summer, and weather is what you get, like a hot day with pop-up thunderstorms.”

The tweet soon received responses from climate scientists who lambasted the president’s misinformed statement.

“This demonstrates once again that Donald Trump is not an individual to be taken seriously on any topic, let alone matters as serious as climate change,” Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, told Huffington Post. “He is a clown — a dangerous clown.”

Peter Frumhoff, chief climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told CNN: “It’s like saying, ‘If everyone around me is wealthy, then poverty is not a problem.'”

Renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben also took issue with the statement.

“I know you're Mr. America-is-all-that-matters, but climate is actually a global phenomenon,” he wrote, noting that the world had become warmer around 1.2 °C compared to the preindustrial area.

The Paris Climate Agreement, which was abandoned by Trump last year, calls for holding the ongoing rise in global average temperature to “well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels,” while “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.”

Any increase in the global average temperature is believed to raise the impact of global warming by about that same fraction, NASA warns.

This means that in case of a hypothetical jump from 1.5 to 2 degrees (a one-third increase) “heat waves would last around a third longer, rain storms would be about a third more intense, the increase in sea level would be approximately that much higher and the percentage of tropical coral reefs at risk of severe degradation would be roughly that much greater.”

Twitter users also mocked Trump’s remark.

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