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Posted: 2019-01-29T06:14:45Z | Updated: 2019-02-01T20:56:49Z 'Staggering Moron': Trump Slammed For Climate Change Tweet | HuffPost

'Staggering Moron': Trump Slammed For Climate Change Tweet

The president has previously claimed his "very high levels of intelligence" prevent him from believing in climate change.
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President Donald Trump has once again attempted to dismiss climate change as a myth, calling for “Global Waming [sic]” to “come back fast” as parts of the Midwest brace for subfreezing weather .

Trump’s assertion that climate change does not exist because “windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees” suggests the president does not understand the difference between climate and weathe r .

As NASA notes , weather is a short-term event (minutes to months) while climate “is the average of weather over time and space .”

In 2017, 13 federal agencies unveiled a report which found that humans are overwhelmingly to blame for the world’s rapidly changing climate.

However, the president, who has previously claimed his “very high levels of intelligence ” have led him to not believe in climate change, has a documented history of using winter weather to undermine the science behind global warming.

Twitter users were quick to school Trump on his latest tweet.

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