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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, speaking at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event on Wednesday, assailed President Trump’s UN address, in which he denied climate change.
On the first day of his second term in office, Trump signed an executive order – again – to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement, a voluntary pact among nearly 200 nations to cut greenhouse gases and keep rising global temperatures in check. No other country has left the agreement, but Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said at the Climate Forward event that he would like to see other countries do the same.
At the link in our bio, see more from the Climate Forward event, where our journalists interviewed world leaders, activists, innovators and scientists.
Transcript
Hello? Hello? They don't give you a break between speakers? No breaks. No breaks. It's interviews. He called climate change the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the worse, and he said that the scientific consensus on global warming was created by stupid people. What's your reaction to that? I I no Chris is coming up best, and he's well, he's gotta defend himself, not just Trump. What an abomination. What an embarrassment. What a fraud. You no, and I say that as a guy that, lives in one of the most crisis prone states in America. But a state that's seen lifestyles, places, traditions completely destroyed because of the reality of climate change. Thank you, secretary Wright, for being here. Thanks for having me, David. Good you like to see other countries follow The United States' lead and also withdraw from Paris? Oh, that's their choice, but absolutely. Absolutely. Look, this has become a club of people that have lost sight of the best of their own people. If you guys, and I'm gonna suggest, you might five years from no, give president Trump the hero of the climate award. Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you.
