Climate Change-Denying Trump Wants To Build Sea Wall To Protect Golf Course

Trump in golf conservation deal. Golf buggies on the Doonbeg Golf Links course and hotel in Co Clare, as US tycoon Donald Trump has said he will invest up to 45 million euro (£36 million) in a renowned storm-ra... Trump in golf conservation deal. Golf buggies on the Doonbeg Golf Links course and hotel in Co Clare, as US tycoon Donald Trump has said he will invest up to 45 million euro (£36 million) in a renowned storm-ravaged golf course he bought in the west of Ireland. Picture date: Monday May 12, 2014. The property mogul - on a three day visit to inspect the Doonbeg links in Co Clare - said he would redevelop the protected dunes in an environmentally sensitive way amid concerns for a microscopic snail. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Trump. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson/PA Wire URN:19798899 MORE LESS
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Despite repeatedly dismissing global warming as a “hoax,” presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is applying to build a sea wall to protect an oceanfront golf course he owns from the threat of rising sea levels and extreme weather.

A Politico report published Monday details how the permit application for a wall to protect Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, located in Doughmore Bay, County Clare, explicitly mentions “global warming and its effects” as the impetus.

Part of the application reportedly features an environmental impact statement pointing to the threat of coastal erosion due to sea level rise “not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland.” It also warns against erosion caused by more frequent and extreme storms.

The statement says outright that both these threats pose “a real and immediate risk to most of the golf course frontage and assets,” according to Politico.

These private concerns over protecting a Trump property conflict with some of the presumptive GOP nominee’s public comments on climate change.

Trump has written off his past claims about climate change being a “hoax” perpetuated by China as a joke. But as recently as March he told The Washington Post’s editorial board that he was “not a big believer in global warming.”

Trump’s campaign spokeswoman and the general counsel for the Trump Organization did not respond to Politico’s requests for comment.

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  1. “And I’m going to make the sea pay for it! It will be incredible!”

  2. Damn, a GOP Presidency could doom Trump’s oceanfront properties…

  3. I wish we had a once a day 10 thumbs up for brilliance such as this!

  4. Avatar for trnc trnc says:

    “We’ll make Poseidon pay for it.”

    Edit: Dammit, Panda beat me to it.

  5. Trump: I run a business, OK? I do what it takes to protect it. I also don’t allow guns on my Golf Course. Business Trump has to protect his business and Republican Trump has to win elections. They are two different Trumps.

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