Trump: ‘I Am Not a Believer in Climate Change’

CAMEROTA: “But let's talk about another topic that the Pope has talked about, and that's climate change.” 
TRUMP: “Right.”
CAMEROTA: “The Pope has said that he is clear that this is a problem that cannot be left to a future generation. Do you agree that climate change is a pressing problem?” 
TRUMP: “No. I think that clean air is a pressing problem. You want to have clean air, you want to have clean water, that's very important to me. And I've won many environmental awards. I am not a believer in climate change. Now it's gone global warming and climate change, and now they call it, actually, extreme weather. That's the new one, because weather seems to be a little more extreme. But actually, if you look, a lot of the big floods and a lot of the big things -- in 1890, they had the greatest flood. In 1904, they had the greatest rainstorm. You know, look. It's weather, and we have bad floods. I can't watch the evening news anymore. Every time you turn on the evening news, they show -- there's a big rainstorm, there's a tornado, there's this. I mean, you can't watch the news anymore; it's always weather. And frankly, it's been that way for so long, and -- honestly, it's going to -- weather changes and you have storms, and you have rain, and you have beautiful days. But I do not believe that we should imperil the companies within our country. And by the way, China is doing nothing. You know, if you look at these other countries, they're doing nothing. All they do is talk. But we're going to imperil jobs. We're going to imperil -- actually, the middle class and lower classes are going to be -- the people with no money, are going to be imperiled by doing this. Because it costs so much and nobody knows exactly if it's going to work. You have scientists -- I don't know if you remember a number of years ago in Europe, the scientists were passing around e-mails and notes to each other talking about what a hoax it is.” 
CAMEROTA: “Well, look. I know what you're referring to, the East Anglia situation where they -- a couple of scientists –“
TRUMP: “It was terrible. It was absolutely terrible.” 
CAMEROTA: “-- were using the wrong data. But look –“
TRUMP: “I'm not even saying that. I'm saying this -- I believe in clean air, immaculate air.” 
CAMEROTA: “Sure.”
TRUMP: “I believe in clean water. All of those things. But I don't think we can destroy our country. We have -- if we have climate change or if we have global warming, it's going to be of the nuclear form, because we have incompetent politicians watching over us –“
CAMEROTA: “I hear you.”
TRUMP: “-- when it comes to nuclear weapons. That's our big problem.” 
CAMEROTA: “So you're saying that you don't think that climate change or global warming is man-made and you actually don't believe that it is a pressing problem. It's good to get you on the record with that.”