Offering a novel theory, he claimed that climate change was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.” Instead of worrying about that hoax, however, he urged his followers to focus on a more pressing danger: killer lightbulbs. “Remember, new ‘environment friendly’ lightbulbs can cause cancer,” he tweeted in 2012. “Be careful—the idiots who came up with this stuff don’t care.”
