Fact Checking Trump’s Climate Claims - I & I Editorial Board

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President Donald Trump spoke at the United Nations last week in an address that the world needed to hear. 

It was of course picked apart, particularly his claims about global warming. 

• He twisted facts and made “false claims,” say the gatekeepers of the Great Climate Narrative. 

Is this so?
Let’s look:

• Trump called the global warming scare a “hoax.” Not a word we would use, but he’s closer to the truth than the climatistas. It’s obvious to those with open minds that the global warming tale is the product of academic fraud, gross exaggerations, and an effort to lie to the public to move opinion and force politics into what should be a scientific debate.
• Trump said renewable energy sources “don’t work,” are “too expensive” and a “joke.” They work, but not as advertised. Renewables are unreliable and they are far too costly (without taxpayer-funded subsidies they’re dead). “Joke” is another word we wouldn’t use, because the damage done by the blind drive to net zero emissions is not funny.
• “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong,” Trump said. “They were made by stupid people.” They are not stupid. But they are conniving, deceitful, shameless, wrong and vicious. They are also dangerous (see the point above).
• Trump called the global warming account “the greatest con job perpetrated by the world.”...