Washington sources reported that a newly discovered amphibian that buries its head in the sand has been named after US President Donald Trump, apparently in response to his comments about climate change. EnviroBuild co-founder Aidan Bell in a statement on Tuesday "Dermophis donaldtrumpi is particularly susceptible to the impacts of climate change and is therefore in danger of becoming extinct as a direct result of its namesake's climate policies".
Accordingly the small, blind, creature is a type of caecilian that primarily lives underground. It was discovered in Panama and named by the head of a company that had bid $25,000 at an auction for the privilege. Furthermore although US presidents tend to receive their fair share of honors, with Bell drawing an unflattering comparison between its behavior and Trump's, the 45th president might want to ignore the latest.
Moreover the world's leading scientists agree that climate change is primarily human-induced, but Trump, whose administration has pursued a pro-fossil fuels agenda, has accused those scientists of having a "political agenda" and cast doubt on whether humans were responsible for the Earth's rising temperatures. Previously Trump questioned a report by his own government that found climate change would cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars annually and damage health.
