Did Donald Trump Call Climate Change A Chinese Hoax?

Donald Trump once said that climate change was a Chinese hoax, which means he thought it wasn’t real and that China made it up to trick people.

Imagine you're playing with your favorite building blocks, stacking them high to make the tallest tower ever. That’s like what scientists do when they study Earth, they look at all the clues to see how things are changing over time. They noticed that the Earth is getting warmer, and that’s called climate change.

Now imagine someone came up and said, “Your blocks aren’t real! This whole tower is fake, and it was made by a kid from another room.” That would feel strange, right?

That’s kind of what Trump did. He said people were making up the idea of climate change to trick others, and he thought China had something to do with it.

It's like when you think someone is telling a story just to make you believe something that isn’t true, but scientists keep stacking their blocks (or using their tools) to show that the tower (or Earth’s temperature) really is changing.