Pence breaks with Trump, says humans affect climate change

Climate change sat on the back burner for the majority of Monday night’s presidential debate, except for two notable moments: a mention of solar panels during a discussion about the economy and a plea by one candidate to fight climate change. But the report says that during President George W. Bush’s term, the National Intelligence Assessment did claim that climate change would create national security problems in the country.

Conway was just as evasive during this interview as Trump was during last night’s debate.

Clinton accused Trump Monday of believing that climate change is “a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese”.

“I did not. I did not”, Trump said, overtalking. That tweet above was posted in 2012. Obama leaves behind a framework for coordinated worldwide action, more than two decades in the making, that still could fail – but that might, just might, succeed.

CONWAY: That there are shifts naturally occurring.

When Camerota followed up to ask specifically if that means that Trump believes that climate change is not man-made, Conway responded, “Correct”. He later claimed he was kidding, but he’s also repeated the assertion that climate change is a hoax benefiting China.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

And it’s not the first time he’s denied he ever said this.

Believe it or not, there are issues more important than Trump’s latest offensive outburst or Hillary Clinton’s score on the likability scale.

Trump says climate change is a hoax but he’s wrong and in any event, hard to trust such remarks from someone who has faced bankruptcy four times and yet claims that he will turn around the United States economy for good. She has also proposed cutting oil and gas subsidies, and said she would pursue a domestic infrastructure bill which emphasizes clean energy.

Trump came out like a dervish, yelling and badgering Clinton, seeking to knock her on her heels.

“This is exactly what we’ve been laying the groundwork for for a long time”, Foser said.

Donald Trump has made energy a central theme in his campaign, basing his policies nearly entirely on increasing production of USA fossil fuels.

A Trump spokeswoman didn’t return CNN’s request for comment. While his 11 million followers will accept his words as fact, the rest of the population is able to see through it. Clinton did too, which is why she brought it up in the first place. Pence told CNN “the reality is that this climate change agenda that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to continue to expand is killing jobs in this country”.

One of them related to the idea that climate change might not exist, which is still a popular view among a small group of people.

Clinton has signaled a continued commitment to global cooperation and policies put in place under the Obama administration while Trump has indicated he would likely help prop up the fossil fuel industry at home, roll back clean air regulations and attempt to “cancel” the Paris climate agreement that the USA recently ratified. Her approach was diluted when Sanders’ supporters included a reference to carbon pricing in the Democratic platform.