Overview
- In a Guardian interview published Oct. 31, Ford said Trump’s assault on climate policy “scares the shit out of me” and called him “among the worst criminals in history.”
- The White House dismissed the comments, with spokesperson Taylor Rogers telling the Daily Beast that Ford’s “climate hysteria belongs in a museum.”
- Coverage cites Trump’s second‑term actions including again exiting the Paris climate deal, halting clean‑energy projects, firing scientists, and restricting climate terminology in government.
- Ford pointed to recent disasters as evidence of urgency, noting his own evacuation from Los Angeles wildfires and a Category 5 hurricane near Jamaica that experts say was likely intensified by warming.
- He received an E.O. Wilson conservation leadership award at Chicago’s Field Museum and, as a longtime Conservation International leader, said he remains hopeful mitigation is still achievable.