President Donald Trump brushed off warnings about climate change Tuesday and said the real threat is ‘nuclear heat’ in a grave threat about Iran.
Trump made the comments in a rambling White House statement before signing executive orders meant to unleash coal power and wipe away regulations that limit it.
He began by dismissing scientific warnings about rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels, months after pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement.
‘Because they gave us only a few years left on Earth, right?’ Trump mocked, with hard hat-wearing coal workers as a backdrop.
‘We were going to be gone, we’re all going to be gone – the environment. No, what they have to worry about is the nuclear – nuclear heat. They don’t have to worry about environmental heat. They have to worry about nuclear heat.’
‘And if we’re smart, we’re working on that right now with others, having to do with Iran and some other countries,’ Trump said.
That was the tip that he was referring to Iran and new talks to deal with