Donald Trump neglects climate change – Fact Check

In a May 16 Truth Social post, President Donald Trump cited updated climate change scenarios to misleadingly claim that experts had “admitted” prior climate change projections “were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” The regularly scheduled revision reflects in part the progress the world has made on moving away from fossil fuels.

As he did in his first term, Trump has taken steps to withdraw from international climate agreements and rollback regulations, while moving to increase fossil fuel production on federal lands and waters. But in his return to the White House, Trump has gone way beyond what he did in his first term. He has declared a national energy emergency, rescinded funding for green energy projects, and quickly moved to eliminate climate research and climate-focused offices and programs.

This month Trump called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”, signalling that the next three years of US environmental policy will essentially amount to the government burying its head in the sand.

Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change. But the world U.S. President Donald Trump described in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday didn't match the one many world leaders in the audience are contending with.

$13 billion in funds for green energy projects and tried to halt offshore wind projects already under construction. Energy experts say it's too early to know the full impact of these policies, but in the first half of 2025, U.S. renewable investment ...

This year, lawmakers quietly saved funding for the government’s popular Energy Star program, which ranks appliances based on energy conservation and cost savings. Bipartisan majorities also salvaged weather forecasting, fisheries and climate research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and even some international environmental aid. Mr. Trump’s new proposed budget is expected to be made public on Friday, and climate advocates said they were bracing for steep new cuts to environmental programs.

Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by “leftist politicians.” Fossil fuels are the greenest energy sources.

And on Thursday, when the Trump administration announced its decision to eliminate a bedrock of U.S. climate policy — the so-called endangerment finding — it didn’t employ the group’s arguments that the science underpinning current climate policy is wrong. For all of the administration’s public mockery of climate change, which Trump calls a “hoax,” it appears EPA and White House are unwilling to risk a court battle over climate science and instead will make a regulatory argument.

President Trump cited a major winter storm​ as evidence to suggest that global warming does not exist — a misleading claim that has been consistently debunked by climate experts.

US-Präsident Donald Trump machte gleich beim Amtsantritt klar, dass Klimapolitik bei ihm keine Rolle mehr spielen wird: Unter anderem unterschrieb er den Austritt aus dem Pariser Klimaschutzabkommen noch am Tag seines Amtsantritts.

Seit jeher leugnet Trump den Klimawandel - aus politischem Kalkül, weil ihn die Öl- und Gasbranche mitfinanziert und weil er selbst gedanklich oft noch in den Achtzigerjahren zu verharren scheint.

US-Präsident Trump versucht, den Klimawandel mit aller Macht zu ignorieren. Dafür lässt seine Regierung nun wohl sogar einen Nasa-Satelliten zerstören. Ein deutsches Projekt will wichtige Daten retten. ... Donald Trump bei einem Nasa-Besuch: Treibhausgasmessungen unerwünscht Foto: Bill Ingalls / Photo News / IMAGO