Donald Trump made some remarks to 500 members of the Trump National Golf Club:
With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore. [...] Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn't care less. It would make us totally noncompetitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America's stupidity.
The only problem is, as pointed out by ThinkProgress, that everything Trump said is contradicted by the facts. He's wrong on international climate-protection efforts:
In reality, China, Japan, and India have all submitted greenhouse gas emissions targets under the Copenhagen Accord, and are leading the United States in the race to build the clean-energy technologies of the future.
He's also wrong about the climate:
Following the hottest decade on record, we are now in the hottest winter in the satellite record, and this past January was one of the hottest Januaries on record for the planet.
With a track record for accuracy like that, Trump should be hosting a show on Fox News.
update (6:02pm):
That paragon of Faux journalism, Neil Cavuto, interviewed Trump here:
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