Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he doesn’t believe in climate change and that measures to fight it would “imperil the companies in our country.”

During a Thursday morning interview on CNN’s “New Day,” the New York real estate developer said that bad floods and other abnormal weather patterns have happened in the past, and the media fixated too much on the issue.

“You can’t watch the news anymore. It’s always weather,” said Mr. Trump, who added that China hasn’t done anything to address climate change.

“I believe in clean air. Immaculate air,” Mr. Trump said. “But I don’t believe in climate change. “