Trump calls global warming a "Hoax."

“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

On Dec. 30, 2015, Trump told the crowd at a rally in Hilton Head, S.C., "Obama's talking about all of this with the global warming and … a lot of it's a hoax. It's a hoax. I mean, it's a money-making industry, okay? It's a hoax, a lot of it."

The ripples from a new American president are far-reaching, but never before has the arrival of a White House administration placed the livability of Earth at stake. Beyond his bluster and crude taunts, Donald Trump’s climate denialism could prove to be the lasting imprint of his unexpected presidency.

“A Trump presidency might be game over for the climate,” said Michael Mann, a prominent climate researcher. “It might make it impossible to stabilize planetary warming below dangerous levels.”

Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, added: “This is an unmitigated disaster for the planet.”

Trump has vowed to sweep away the climate framework painstakingly built over Barack Obama’s two terms. At risk is the Paris climate accord, which only came into force last week, and Obama’s linchpin emissions reduction policy, the Clean Power Plan.

At a pivotal moment when the planet’s nations have belatedly banded together to confront an existential threat, a political novice who calls global warming a “bullshit” Chinese-invented hoax is taking the helm at the world’s foremost superpower.“Millions of Americans voted for a coal-loving climate denier willing to condemn people around the globe to poverty, famine and death from climate change,” said Benjamin Schreiber, climate director at Friends of the Earth US. “It seems undeniable that the United States will become a rogue state on climate change.”

US conservatives are already rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of a bonfire of regulation. Trump wants the US to exit the Paris deal, which commits nations to keeping the global temperature rise below a 2C threshold, potentially setting off a cataclysmic domino effect where other countries also drop out or ease off efforts to decarbonize. The 2C limit, which was already a stern challenge, now appears perilous.

There is a scientific consensus that human gas and oil consumption is  causing the planet to warm. A 2009 review of more than 4,000 climate-science papers found that scientists faulted humans for global warming in 97 out of every 100 studies. Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on the health of oneself, or society, or the world it becomes a pathology. Climate change denial is such a case. Paradoxically, as the climate science has become more certain, denial about the issue has increased. The paradox lies in the denial.

There is a powerful denial industry funded by the gas and oil interests and their lobbyists.  These powerful corporate interests, seek to deny science, and confuse the public in order to defeat regulation such as the Paris climate change deal.. These wealthy spin-doctors hire “scientists”  to manufacture fake reports in order to pretend they are taking action. A recent  book (2011) by (Author), John Cook (Author), Naomi Professor Oreskes called Climate Change Denial explains the social science behind denial. It contains a detailed examination of the principal climate change denial arguments, from attacks on the integrity of scientists, to impossible expectations of proof and certainty to the cherry picking of data. The book explains how Climate change can only be solved – when politicians- SUCH AS DONALD TRUMP, cannot be influenced (paid) to deny that it exists.

Two key climate change indicators -- global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent -- have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data.

Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planet's warmest half-year on record, with an average temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late nineteenth century. (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/climate-trends-continue-to-break-records)

Over the last 100 years, global temperatures have warmed by about 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit (0.74 degrees Celsius) on average. The change may seem minor, but it's happening very quickly — more than half of it since 1979, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Meteorologists and Scientists world over, all agree that Global warming, left unchecked, may eventually destroy life on Earth in the end: not just human life, but all life on the planet’s surface, including in the seas.

  Yet President elect Trump, is labeling as global warming as a HOAX; refuting a respected scientific report, confirming global warming, that was just released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: “Providing a comprehensive scientific review of key climate indicators confirms the world is warming and the past decade was the warmest on record." The report was compiled by more than 300 scientists from 48 countries, and the report said its analysis of 10 indicators that are “clearly and directly related to surface temperatures, all tell the same story: Global warming is undeniable.”

“The evidence in this report would say unequivocally yes, there is no doubt,” that the Earth is warming, said Tom Karl, the transitional director of the planned NOAA Climate Service.

Deke Arndt, chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch at the National Climatic Data Center, noted that the 1980s was the warmest decade up to that point, but each year in the 1990s was warmer than the ‘80s average.

That makes the ‘90s the warmest decade, he said.

But each year in the 2000s has been warmer than the ‘90s average, so the first 10 years of the 2000s is now the warmest decade on record.

This new report notes that continuing warming will threaten coastal cities, infrastructure, water supply, health and agriculture.

“At first glance, the amount of increase each decade — about a fifth of a degree Fahrenheit — may seem small,” the report said.

“But,” it adds, “the temperature increase of about 1 degree Fahrenheit experienced during the past 50 years has already altered the planet. Glaciers and sea ice are melting, heavy rainfall is intensifying and heat waves are becoming more common and more intense.”

Last month was the warmest June on record and this year has had the warmest average temperature for January-June since record keeping began, NOAA reported last week.

AND WHAT SHOULD CONCERN TRUMP, CONSIDERING HIS PROPOSED ANTI-IMMIGRATION POLICIES, IS THAT A RELATED STUDY BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS RELEASED MONDAY SUGGESTED THAT CONTINUED WARMING COULD CAUSE AS MANY AS 6.7 MILLION MORE MEXICANS TO MOVE TO THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE OF DROUGHT AFFECTING CROPS IN THEIR COUNTRY.