“Hillary Clinton and President Obama are both delusional when they say that our most pressing national security issues is climate change,” Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said. GOP candidates mock Obama's climate speech

Republican presidential candidates and their allies made fun of President Barack Obama’s comments about climate change in Paris on Monday.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, during a town hall in Iowa, said Obama “apparently thinks having an SUV in your driveway is more dangerous than a bunch of terrorists trying to blow up the world.”


Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, called the president delusional at a forum in South Carolina Monday, throwing in his former secretary of state for good measure.

“Hillary Clinton and President Obama are both delusional when they say that our most pressing national security issues is climate change,” Fiorina said. “It is not. It is ISIS.”

“Obama is clueless. We need a commander-in-chief NOT a meteorologist-in-chief,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tweeted.

Later Monday he followed up with another tweet. “Not a joke: @POTUS thinks two-stroke engines & sunburns are a greater threat to America than Islamic terrorism. #ParisClimateConference”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie touched on the topic during a business round table event in New Hampshire.

"I'm struck to watch the president today overseas, and he said that climate change is the imperative for our nation,” Christie said. “I have to tell you that when I think back on the Obama administration years from now, the one phrase that I think is going to stick with me the most to describe this administration, including this former secretary of state who now wants a promotion, is 'often wrong but never in doubt.' I mean, that's what these guys are. Often wrong but never in doubt.”

On Fox News Monday night, host Greta Van Susteren asked Marco Rubio "Do you disagree with the president saying that it's very important to future generations?"



"Well, that's not what he is saying. What he is saying is that it's the greatest threat facing future generations and that I don't agree with," the Florida senator said. "I think the greatest threat facing future generations domestically is $19 trillion debt for which there is no answer in place. And a national security apparatus in this country that continues to deteriorate at a time when the world is growing more dangerous."

Donald Trump questioned the legitimacy of climate change on Breitbart News Daily radio Tuesday morning.

"We do have weather that changes you have storms and you have tornadoes and you have hurricanes and you had them always,” he said.

Trump continued that there was a much bigger problem than global warming, "we have a form of global warming that’s a very serious form of global warming and that’s called nuclear global warming.”

In an appearance on CNN’s “The Lead” Monday afternoon, Trump’s special counsel Michael Cohen addressed Obama’s focus on climate change briefly.

“At the end of the day we’re talking about Christians getting their heads chopped off. There was a photo of a Christian woman who was killed by having a cross basically rammed through her head. We have our president off somewhere talking about climate change,” Cohen said.

Obama was in Paris on Monday with other world leaders for the start of a two-week long conference on combating climate change, where he quoted Martin Luther King, Jr. saying "There is such a thing as being too late.”

“When it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us," Obama said. "But if we act here, now, if we place our short-term interests behind the air that our children will breathe and the water our children will drink, then we will not be too late for them.”

He also reiterated that merely holding the climate conference in the French capital represented a victory of sorts. Republicans mocked the president last week for saying that refusing to cancel the summit would be a "powerful rebuke" to the terrorists who killed more than 130 people on Nov. 13.

"We salute the people of Paris for insisting this crucial conference go on," Obama said Monday, calling it "an act of defiance that proves nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children."