Friday, September 26th, 2025
Author: MELINA WALLING and SETH BORENSTEIN
Source: Assoociated Press
Publication Date: September 24, 2025 | 7:47 AM PDT
Link: In front of drowning nations, Trump calls climate change a ‘con job.’ Here are the facts and context
Stephan:
Because of the willful ignorance of psychopath Trump, or maybe because he just isn’t smart enough to understand the science, Trump is doing everything he can to keep America dependent on coal and oil. It is going to affect the entire planet, and as it goes on, the reputation of the United States will severely decline. This also means the United States is going to be one of the most severely impacted nations in the developed world as climate change proceeds. Meanwhile, the Chinese have announced that they are going to transition out of carbon energy and help other nations in their own process. Increasingly, I see China becoming the leading nation in the world.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.
But the world U.S. President Donald Trump described in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday didn’t match the one many world leaders in the audience are contending with. Nor did it align with what scientists have long been observing.
“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,” Trump said. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same […]
