Donald Trump and climate change - A cloud with a silver lining?

PRESIDENT Donald Trump should have felt he was among friends when he visited Texas to see the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey floods.

After all, in last year’s election 52.2% of the Lone Star state’s population voted for him — or at least those registered to vote did. Hilary Clinton was supported by 43.2% but Green candidate Jill Stein got just 0.8% suggesting President Trump’s flat-earth policies on climate change resonate with a majority Texans.

Whether the destruction wreaked by Harvey provokes a presidential U-turn remains to be seen but there must be some comfort in the fact that it would not be the first, or last, U-turn forced on him when his stridency collides with reality.