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Trump Slightly Revises His Views on Climate Change

Again.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Election Day 2012 was an important day for Donald Trump. It may have been important for the planet, too.

As Americans across the country traveled to the polls to select their next president, Trump tweeted 46 times. He endorsed Mitt Romney. He congratulated himself for The Apprentice’s high ratings. He asked whether Americans wanted a president “who bows to the Saudis.” And he advanced a claim that followed him around for years: that human-caused climate change was a hoax invented by a foreign government.

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