Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said India will have to be roped in by the United States to deal with the fallout of Pakistan becoming “unstable” in the future.

“People can’t know exactly what your intentions are”, Trump told Hewitt.

“India is the check to Pakistan”, Trump said. Trump appears to be repeating talking points from climate change deniers, who often rely on a 1970s article in Newsweek for their research on “global cooling”. You know, I talk about global warming, you know, to me the worst global warming, and I mentioned this once to you before is nuclear warming.

As David Roberts at Vox points out, no one in the 1920s thought the Earth was cooling.

Trump goes on lament the fact that the government is spending money addressing a problem that he doesn’t think exists. So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather. I believe there’s weather, I believe there’s change, and I believe it goes up, and it goes down, and it goes up again.

Hewitt, a co-moderator of the second Republican debate, mostly avoided rehashing the incident that led Trump to refer to him as a “third-rate radio announcer” but did acknowledge that the two had resolved their “little disagreement” off the air.

Well first of all, I’m not a believer in global warming, I’m not a believer in manmade global warming. Now it’s global warming.

The comment come less than a full week after Trump, speaking on a battleship in California, vowed that if elected “we’re gonna make our military so big and so strong and so great and it will be so powerful that I don’t think we’re ever going to have to use it”.