President Donald Trump says he is skeptical about climate change, but says he might sign the United States back up to the Paris climate agreement.
“There is a cooling, and there’s a heating. I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place,” Trump said in comments published on Sunday.
Although global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably, they are indeed slightly different. Global warming refers only to the Earth’s increasing surface temperature, whereas climate change is a broader term which includes the other effects of carbon pollution, such as changing weather patterns.
So far, several studies have been conducted to gauge the consensus reached among climate scientists on human-caused global warming, with 97 percent emerging as an accurate estimate of the proportion who agree with it.
“The ice caps…