Talking out of both sides of his mouth is his default position
by digby
Trump, of course. You'll recall that he has said that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by China to destroy the American economy.
And he has said that he would unilaterally "renegogitate" the Paris global climate accords because he thinks it favors China over the US. He is obviously completely uninformed about any of this, an ignorant blowhard know-nothing, as usual.
However, it appears that his lawyers aren't so stupid:
Donald Trump says he is “not a big believer in global warming.” He has called it “a total hoax,” “bullshit” and “pseudoscience.”
But he is also trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from “global warming and its effects.”
The New York billionaire is applying for permission to erect a coastal protection works to prevent erosion at his seaside golf resort, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in County Clare.
A permit application for the wall, filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and reviewed by POLITICO, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather this century — as a chief justification for building the structure.
The zoning application raises further questions about how the billionaire developer would confront a risk he has publicly minimized but that has been identified as a defining challenge of this era by world leaders, global industry and the American military. His public disavowal of climate science at the same time he moves to secure his own holdings against the effects of climate change also illustrates the conflict between his political rhetoric and the realities of running a business with seaside assets in the 21st century.
Actually it illustrates the (polluted) air inside his head.
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