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The U.S President Trump is backing off his claim that climate change is a hoax. But said that he doesn’t know if it’s manmade and suggests the climate will “change back again”. He delivered his words in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired on Sunday Night. Trump said that he doesn’t need to put the U.S. at a disadvantage in responding to climate change.

Trump said, “I think something’s happening. Something’s changing and it’ll change back again. I don’t think it’s a hoax. I think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s manmade. I will say this: I don’t want to give trillions and trillions of dollars. I don’t want to lose millions and millions of jobs”.

Donald Trump called climate change a hoax in the month of November 2012 in his Tweet. He wrote, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive”. He later said that he was joking regarding the Chinese connection. But in years since has continued to call global warming a hoax. He also claimed that climate change was just a “very expensive form of tax” and environmental industries have profited from.

The temperature records kept by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed that the world hasn’t had a cooler-than-average year since 1976 or a cooler-than-normal month since the end of 1985. Some senior members in the Trump administration have been pressed on their positions in light of the president’s previous comments. The U.S Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has repeatedly dismissed the previous claim of Trump that climate change was a hoax. Zinke said that it is indisputable that environmental changes are affecting the global temperature and human activities are a major reason.