Bernie Sanders blasts Trump's 'absurd' climate change views in Europe book tour

Nicole Gaudiano | USA TODAY

Sen. Bernie Sanders, on a book tour abroad, is trying to reassure European audiences that the majority of Americans don’t share President Trump’s “absurd and unscientific views regarding climate change.”

The Vermont independent and former presidential candidate, speaking in Brighton, England, called Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement “shortsighted” and “extremely dangerous.”

The audience booed at the mention of Trump’s decision — “you got it,” Sanders agreed in response — and applauded when Sanders called it “an abdication of U.S. leadership,” according to a video clip his office posted on Facebook and Twitter on Friday.

“Despite Trump’s view that he knows more than virtually the entire scientific community, the American people will move forward and do everything we can to combat the planetary crisis of climate change and I wanted you to know that,” he said.

Sanders has been promoting his book about his presidential campaign, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In. The tour began Wednesday in Berlin, where he delivered a similar message about the importance of the Paris agreement.