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Trump casts doubt on climate change scientists

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump accused climate change scientists of having a “very big political agenda” on Sunday, warning that he was not prepared to sacrifice millions of jobs for the environment.

He was speaking in a televised interview when he appeared to backtrack on previous claims that climate change was a hoax, although he suggested that temperatures could return to safe levels.

Mr Trump said: "I don't think it's a hoax. I think there's probably a difference, but I don't know that it's man-made. 

“I will say this. I don't want to give trillions and trillions of dollars. I don't want to lose millions and millions of jobs. I don't want to be put at a disadvantage."

The billionaire businessman was condemned after he pulled the US out of the Paris climate change agreement which committed 187 other countries to keep global temperatures below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

Mr Trump was responding to last week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report which warned that major changes were needed to stop catastrophic damage.

It said global CO2 emissions must be slashed by 45 per cent of 2010 levels in the next 12 years to stop irreversible climate change.

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