What should the United States do with global warming?

US President Trump has always been unique in his "outspoken" style. A tweet he posted a few days ago once again sparked heated discussion. Due to the recent cold in the eastern United States, Trump even said, "Maybe our country can make good use of global warming." His wonderful speech was also criticized by experts as "ignorant misunderstanding".

At 8 pm local time on the 28th, Trump tweeted: "The eastern United States may experience the coldest New Year's Eve on record. Maybe we can take advantage of global warming. It is not other countries that spend trillions of dollars on preventing global warming, but the United States. Warm up! "

When Trump made this statement, he was immediately criticized by major media, experts and scholars. CNN said that the President of the United States did not seem to understand or choose to ignore the fact that "weather" and "climate" are not the same thing. According to the definition of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), "weather" refers to the climatic conditions in a short time, and "climate" refers to the atmospheric environment in a relatively long time. Therefore, the cold weather in a certain day, week or month cannot explain whether the climate and the world are getting warmer, and the logic that "weather" equals "climate" is untenable.

The British media also quoted Matthew England, a climatologist at the University of New South Wales, as saying that Trump's remarks were "ignorance and misunderstanding of the way the earth's climate works." "No one said that winter would disappear with global warming, but it did become much warmer." Matthew said.