President-elect Donald Trump’s claim to be keeping an “open mind” about the Paris climate change accord is nothing but “a bunch of empty rhetoric” when viewed alongside his policy proposals and personnel choices, environmental group 350.org charged on Tuesday.
Of the international climate agreement, which Trump repeatedly vowed to withdraw from on the campaign trail, he told New York Times editors and reporters on Tuesday: “I’m looking at it very closely. I have an open mind to it.”
Trump—who previously described man-made global warming as a “hoax”—also reportedly acknowledged “some connectivity” between human activity and climate change:
But in a statement issued Tuesday afternoon, 350.org executive director May Boeve scoffed at the president-elect’s alleged change of heart.
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