Donald Trump urges global warming to ‘come back fast’ as wind chill hits -60C in America’s bitter Midwest
The US President has been continually resistant to tackling climate change, once describing it as a 'Chinese hoax'
THE President of the United States yesterday urged global warming to "come back fast" as a -60C wind chill swept through America's Midwest.
Donald Trump's baffling plea came as a state of emergency was declared in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois as well as in the southern states of Alabama and Mississippi after extreme arctic blasts swept through large swathes of the US.
The deep freeze will cover such a huge area that it will be felt by 212 million people — some 72 percent of the US population — from the Dakotas to Long Island.
People were stockpiling food, milk and gas in the worst affected areas, as thieves were seen mugging people for their coats in Chicago.
Weather officials in the state of Iowa have warned people to "avoid taking deep breaths, and to minimise talking" if they go outside,
And Mr Trump also left the world gasping for breath after once again failing to take climate change seriously.
In his bizarre tweet, he wrote: "In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded.
"In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes."
He finished his rant with the words: "What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!" [sic]
One of the US government's own meteorological agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, posted what was widely seen as a rebuttal to the President's theory.
Winter storms don't prove that global warming isn't happening. Not only are severe snowstorms possible in a warming climate, they may even be more likely.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
"Winter storms don't prove that global warming isn't happening," they wrote in a tweet, posting a simple illustrated graphic as well as an article debunking the myth.
"Not only are severe snowstorms possible in a warming climate, they may even be more likely," they wrote.
"According to the , there is some evidence that cold season storms in the Northern Hemisphere have become both more frequent and more intense since 1950."
Trump has presented various musings on the climate, but consistently been resistant to taking action against climate change - describing it as a "Chinese hoax" and pulling out of the Paris Agreement in 2017.
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But Trump's refusal to acknowledge the real impact of or science behind climate change is nothing new.
In November last year he tweeted: "Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?"
Responding to climate change-fuelled forest blazes in California, he blamed all the fires on "poor forest management" rather than mentioning the warming of the atmosphere.
What is global warming?
- Climate change is a catch-all term for a shift in worldwide weather patterns associated with a rise in global average temperatures.
- Climate change phenomena can include sea level rise, ice mass loss in Greenland, Antarctica, the Arctic and mountain glaciers worldwide, shifts in flower/plant blooming and extreme weather events.
- Global warming describes the gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth since the early 20th century, a rise mainly attributed to the increase in fossil fuel emissions since the Industrial Revolution.
- Worldwide since 1880, the average surface temperature has gone up by about 1C (about 2 °F), relative to the mid-20th-century baseline (of 1951-1980).
- Extreme weather spells such as the polar vortext in America's Midwest are not proof that global warming is not happening, . Warmer ocean temperatures lead to more moisture in the air, leading to an increase in earth's average surface temperatures.
Source: NASA
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