JD Vance labels climate change as ‘weird science’ as he refuses to say it’s real

JD Vance skirted around whether or not he believes climate change is real on Tuesday night – as he dismissed the crisis as “weird science.”

During the vice presidential debate against Tim Walz in New York City, the Republican candidate appeared skeptical about the factual statement that human-made carbon emissions drive climate change.

“Some of the things I’ve noticed our Democratic friends talking a lot about is a concern about carbon emissions,” he said.

“This idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change – let’s just say that’s true, just for the sake of argument so we’re not arguing about weird science…”

Human activity is responsible for around 100 percent of the Earth’s warming climate since 1950, scientists agree.

Vance’s comments come as the US is grappling with one of the deadliest storms in modern history, after Hurricane Helene slammed into the southeast states, killing more than 100 people. On Sunday, one day before meeting communities ravaged by the hurricane in Georgia, Donald Trump sparked controversy by asserting climate change is “one of the greatest scams of all time.”

“Look, a lot of people are very justifiably worried about all these crazy weather patterns,” Vance said of the hurricane.

“I think it’s important for us first of all to say – Donald Trump and I support clean air, clean water, we want the environment to be safer.”

Vance, who also falsely claimed America has the cleanest economy in the world, argued the solution to tackling carbon emissions is to bring more manufacturing to America.

“The answer is you’d want to restore as much American manufacturing as possible and you’d want to produce as much energy as possible in the United States of America because we’re the cleanest