Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin denied newly elected U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's recent accusations in reproaching China for fabricating the issue of climate change.
The Chinese official told reporters during the United Nations talks in Marrakesh, Morocco, that former U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush started the global warming talks by supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change during the late 1980s.
The panel began in 1988 through a joint effort by the UN Environmental Program and the World Meteorological Organization when Reagan was still in office.
It has since able to publish five total comprehensive assessment reports that use findings from climate experts around the world to produce what its website calls a "full scientific and technical assessment of climate change."
Hillary Clinton roasts Trump
The panel was eventually awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, along with Al Gore, after releasing its fourth assessment. Trump's now-infamous tweet resurfaced during the first presidential debate on Sep. 26 when Presidential rival Hillary Clinton confronted Trump over his alleged claim, though she did not exactly mention his tweet.
"Donald Trump is thinking that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese," Clinton claimed. "But I think it's real."
Trump responded: "No I did not. I actually did not. I do not say that at all."
Other Skeptics' remark on Trumps negligence of Climate change
Though Trump has since then called his tweet a joke, his appointment of climate change skeptic Myron Ebell to head his Environmental Protection Agency transition has claimed, along with other climate change skeptics, that Trump truly does not take climate change that seriously.
Trump has also questioned the existence of global warming a lot of times since his November 2012 tweet, calling it "bullsh*t" and claiming cold weather had given "hoaxsters" the opportunity to rename global warming as climate change.
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