CBS on Climate Change: ‘Saving the World Has Been Harder’ Since Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | November 13, 2017
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During Monday’s newscast, CBS Evening News was irritated by President Trump’s position on Climate Change and how he was putting America at odds with the rest of the world. “At a U.N. climate conference in Germany today, the Trump administration talked up fossil fuels, including coal,” chided Anchor Anthony Mason. “That puts the U.S. at odds with 194 other nations, but some American entrepreneurs and politicians want to make sure the administration does not have the final word.

As they cut to the report by Mark Phillips, they played a clip of a staged “protest” by little kids where they chanted “Save the world! Save the World!” “Despite the kids' demonstration, saving the world has been harder since the Trump administration announced its pullout from the Paris climate deal,” Phillips complained.

Although the Trump administration didn’t send a delegation that wanted to go along with crippling America with burdensome climate change initiatives, Phillips praised the unofficial group that claimed to speak for the country. “There is an enthusiastic American delegation at this U.N. conference, but Washington didn't send it. State and city governments and businessmen like Michael Bloomberg did,” he touted.

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