Trump's campaign leans on climate change denial: Six misleading claims debunked

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are both campaigning on climate as the 2024 presidential race enters its final days .

While Harris has repeatedly referred to climate change as a "crisis," Trump has pushed back against the existence of climate change and promoted climate science misinformation.

USA TODAY reviewed climate science-related comments both candidates made in speeches archived on Rev.com and C-SPAN .

There is no evidence that sea levels will only rise 1/8 an inch over the next 500 years , Howard Diamond , a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientist, told USA TODAY .

NOAA projects average global sea levels rising around 1-12 feet (compared to sea levels in 2000 ) by 2150 , depending on factors such as the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere by humans.

The phrase "climate change" is used more broadly to describe warming as well as other phenomena like shifting rainfall and drought patterns, melting ice and altered wind and ocean currents.

Trump 's claim echoes a common climate change denial myth that there was a scientific consensus in the 1970s that Earth would cool instead of warm.

In a 2002 memo, Republican strategist Frank Luntz advised the George W. Bush administration to refer to climate change rather than global warming.