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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Oliver Milman

‘The dumbest climate conversation of all time’: experts on the Musk-Trump interview

Donald Trump at an oil rig in Midland, Texas.
Donald Trump at an oil rig in Midland, Texas. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Donald Trump and Elon Musk both made discursive, often fact-free assertions about global heating, including that rising sea levels would create “more oceanfront property” and that there was no urgent need to cut carbon emissions, during an event labeled “the dumbest climate conversation of all time” by one prominent activist.

Trump, the Republican US presidential nominee, and Musk, the world’s richest person, dwelled on the problem of the climate crisis during their much-hyped conversation on X, formerly known as Twitter and owned by Musk, on Monday, agreeing that the world has plenty of time to move away from fossil fuels, if at all.

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