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Trump 'believes climate is changing'

The US ambassador to the UN says Donald Trump believes the "climate is changing" as the president pulls the country from a global deal to tackle climate change.

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The US ambassador to the UN says Donald Trump believes the "climate is changing". (AAP)

Someone in the Trump administration has finally come forward to shed some light on President Donald Trump's take on climate change.

Ambassador to the United Nations said: "President Trump believes the climate is changing."

Nikki Haley also told CNN's State of the Union in an interview that Trump "knows that it's changing. He knows that the US has to be responsible with it, and that's what we're going to do".

Her interpretation of Trump's decision that the US should no longer participate in an international agreement seeking to curb global warming?

"Just because we got out of a club doesn't mean that we don't care about the environment."

Trump has been keeping quiet on this question, and aides and advisers aren't saying what their boss' opinion is. For years before he won the presidency, Trump had publicly bashed the idea of global warming as a "hoax" and "total con job."

Press secretary Sean Spicer said he hasn't had an opportunity to discuss the subject with Trump.

Top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said the question should be put to Trump himself.


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Source: AAP



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