'We have to understand that the climate may be changing': McCain

 US Senator John McCain says Americans should understand the climate may be actually changing, breaking with most of the fellow Republicans, including President Donald Trump, who believe climate change is a “hoax.”

“There are things happening with the climate in the world that is unprecedented,” McCain said in an interview on Sunday when asked why Republicans act as if climate change is not real.

McCain went on to emphasize the importance of nuclear power. “It’s the cleanest, cheapest, in many ways, source of power.”

“We have to understand that the climate may be changing and we can take commonsense measures which will not harm the American people,” he added.

McCain made the remarks at a time Hurricane Irma started pummeling Florida, threatening almost the entire southeastern US state after leaving a deadly path of destruction across the Caribbean islands.

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