claim: Donald Trump has called global warming a "hoax" on multiple occasions.
origin: Donald Trumpâ€™s stated views on global warmingÂ have changed overÂ the past seven years or soÂ (weâ€™ll leave it to pundits to judgeÂ whether theyâ€™ve â€œevolvedâ€ or â€œdevolvedâ€ in that time), as exemplified, on the one hand, byÂ his endorsement of a 2009 letterÂ urging the U.S. government to invest in a â€œclean energy economyâ€ and pass legislation addressing the â€œimmediate challengeâ€ of climate change, and, on the other, by his November 2012Â tweet stating that â€œThe concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.â€ (Contrary to rumor, Trump did not attempt to delete that tweet years after the fact.) Trumpâ€™s current position, as clarifiedÂ by his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, in a 27 September 2016 interviewÂ with CNNâ€™s Alisyn Camerota, is that climate change exists but is â€œnaturally occurring.â€ < CAMEROTA: He believes in climate change? CONWAY: That there are shifts naturally occurring. CAMEROTA: He doesnâ€™t believe itâ€™s man-made? CONWAY: Correct. CAMEROTA: So he believes that the idea that itâ€™s man-made is a hoax? CONWAY: No, I didnâ€™t say that. CAMEROTA: I mean, he said it. Iâ€™m repeating his tweet. So heÂ believes that that part is a hoax. CONWAY: He believes that climate change is naturally occurring. > While Conway pointedly evadedÂ questions aboutÂ Trumpâ€™s previously claimingÂ thatÂ global warming is a hoax, the candidate himself adamantlyÂ denied having made such claimsÂ during his first debate against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016: < CLINTON: â€œTheyâ€™ve looked at my plans and theyâ€™ve said, OK, if we can do this, and I intend to get it done, we will have 10 million more new jobs, because we will be making investments where we can grow the economy. Take clean energy. Some country is going to be the clean-energy superpower of the 21st century. Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think itâ€™s real.â€ TRUMP: â€œI did not. I did not. I do not say that.â€ CLINTON: â€œI think science is real.â€ TRUMP: â€œI do not say that.â€ > But Trump has, in fact, said just that. Here, from the public record, in his own words, are instances of Donald Trump callingÂ global warming a hoax (and more colorful things): < The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. â€” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012 > < Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee â€“ Iâ€™m in Los Angeles and itâ€™s freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax! â€” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2013 > < NBC News just called it the great freeze â€“ coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX? â€” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2014 > < Snowing in Texas and Louisiana, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax! â€” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2014 > < Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air â€“ not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense. â€” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2014 >