On January 29th, 2019 President Donald Trump tweeted, “In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Warming? Please come back fast, we need you!”

Our Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world, Donald Trump, is mocking scientifically-backed Global Warming.

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Global warming is “the long term trend of the rise in the average temperature in the Earth, most generally caused by human activity.”

Global warming is a “long term trend,” meaning a day of cold weather can’t be used as evidence against it. 

Additionally, our president is no stranger to being very outspoken with his outlandish claims against global warming. This is a tweet dating back from November 1st, 2011, which was well before his presidency. “It snowed over 4 inches this past weekend in New York City. It is still October. So much for Global Warming.”

Since the 19th century, average surface temperatures across the globe have risen 1.62 degrees, with most of the warming coming in the past 35 years. Along with that, the last five years have been the five warmest years on record.

I’m definitely no scientist, but it seems to me as if global warming really is affecting our earth.

In fact, Trump’s administration launched their own study on climate change, and found that “global average sea level has risen by about 7–8 inches” with human-caused climate change being accountable for a “substantial contribution to this rise since 1900.” And, they’re expected to rise even more, as “a rise of as much 8 feet by 2100 cannot be ruled out.”

In that same study, they found that annual average temperatures were expected to rise roughly 2.5 degrees by 2050. However, with significant reductions in emissions, it could become only a fraction of that.

In a classic Donald Trump response, he reacted to his own administration’s  study by saying, “I don’t believe it.”

It’s pretty clear that global warming has a great impact on the environment and our everyday lives. Very few people (I hope) actually believe that it’s not. If we don’t act fast, the world we know today will be very different.

Warmer temperatures aside, global warming is affecting our wildlife and their habitats. Some animals will be able to move further north to combat this, but for animals like the polar bear, they likely won’t be able to adapt, and extinction is the likely outcome.

Most aspects of global warming are irreversible and we will see the lasting effects through the remainder of our lifetime. Despite this, President Donald Trump maintains that “it’ll change back.”