US President Donald Trump in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly recently, amid shocking chants from the attendees, that “climate change is the largest trick committed against the world”, and that he weighs the shoulders of European countries with high energy costs compared to fossil fuel, and said: “If you do not retract the green energy trick, your country will face failure.” Trump has also explicitly questioned the feasibility of combating climate change, opposing the international climate obligations supported by the United Nations, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
He also said, “The allegations about the high temperatures were issued by stupid people,” before it was announced that the climate change was previously called global cooling – citing this in years from 1920 to 1930 – and then they said that climate change would kill the world, “then he said that” environmental protection advocates want to kill all cows! “
President Trump has forgotten, or forgotten, that in 2024, it is estimated that more than about 62,700 people have died for reasons related to heat, an increase of 23% over the previous year, and scientists concluded that the change of climate caused by human activities, which led to the rise in European temperature at a faster rate than some other regions of the world, is the reason behind these deaths, and this summer, the death of approximately 25 thousand people is estimated For reasons related to heat. The question is, why is Trump described the scientists of climate change and researchers who support this phenomenon as stupid?! Unfortunately, he believes that he is always right, and what he says and does is always true; It is a sentence that he repeats and wrote it on his hats.
Below is a diligence to explain the reason for this saying in describing climate scientists and climate change
Renewable energy; It was reckless in his description, and he did not kindly oppose the response, which is a clear bullying. Political and economic, and these motives can be summarized in the following points:
1. Economic and political motives:
The agenda of “America first”; Trump believes that adherence to international climate agreements, such as the Paris Agreement, imposes restrictions on American industries, especially the fossil fuel sectors (oil, gas, coal), and hindering economic growth. It is considered that these agreements put the United States in an “unfair” position compared to other countries such as China, which it sees that they do not bear the same obligations; The president is a dust that supports fossil fuel industries, and receives strong support from oil, gas and coal companies, and believes that supporting these industries leads to creating job opportunities, reducing energy prices, and achieving energy independence for the United States. Therefore, he rejects any policies aimed at reducing the emissions of these industries, and the most prominent example of this trend is his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement in 2017, on the pretext that it kills jobs and imposes financial burdens on the American economy, which is not based on strong scientific evidence.
2. Ideological and personal motives:
A- US President Trump wants to question the scientific consensus, and to question scientific institutions and traditional expertise; He considers that the idea of climate change is a “trick” or “conspiracy” that was fabricated for political or economic goals, and this is in line with his anti -institutions in general. Therefore, he uses a populist discourse that focuses on American workers in traditional industries, and depicts environmental policies as a threat to their livelihood, and often repeats slogans such as “we will dig, my dear, we will dig” in reference to oil and gas extraction.
B- It has also become known to everyone that Trump wants to be distinguished and takes opposite positions for global positions, especially those adopted by his political opponents, whether at home or abroad, that Trump’s rejection of global climatic efforts makes him stand out as a leader who opposes the international “institution”.
C- Unfortunately, Trump publishes wrong allegations about climate change, such as that the rise in sea level will not exceed a small part for centuries, or that renewable energy costs are expensive and ineffective, and this information is directly inconsistent with reliable scientific data. In fact, in 1938, the English engineer, Jay Stewart Kalindar, analyzed temperature records from the late nineteenth century ascending, and concluded that the global earth temperatures have risen over the past fifty years due to the burning of fossil fuels, the fact of the matter, research confirms that the period known as the “warming of the early twentieth century”, which lasted from 1901 to 1950, witnessed an increase. Noticeable in the temperature in the Arctic region in the 1920s and thirties of the last century, the years from 1937 to 1941 and 1944 were recorded in record global temperatures at that time. Recent analyzes of the 1930s also showed that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities can be monitored in temperature records dating back to 1937.
Unfortunately, Trump’s rejection of climate change is not based on scientific evidence, but rather a complex group of personal political and economic interests, in addition to a populist discourse aimed at mobilizing his electoral base.
