{"id":44230,"date":"2025-09-27T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=44230"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:58:09","slug":"in-front-of-drowning-nations-trump-calls-climate-change-a-con-job-here-are-the-facts-and-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/in-front-of-drowning-nations-trump-calls-climate-change-a-con-job-here-are-the-facts-and-context\/","title":{"rendered":"In front of drowning nations, Trump calls climate change a \u2018con job.\u2019 Here are the facts and context"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Friday, September 26th, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author: &nbsp; &nbsp; MELINA WALLING and SETH BORENSTEIN<br>Source: &nbsp; &nbsp; Assoociated Press<br>Publication Date: &nbsp; &nbsp; September 24, 2025 | 7:47 AM PDT<br>Link:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-un-climate-change-renewable-energy-5c033a24ec523a56f8244d85f3672eda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In front of drowning nations, Trump calls climate change a \u2018con job.\u2019 Here are the facts and context<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephan: &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of the willful ignorance of psychopath Trump, or maybe because he just isn\u2019t smart enough to understand the science, Trump is doing everything he can to keep America dependent on coal and oil.&nbsp; It is going to affect the entire planet, and as it goes on, the reputation of the United States will severely decline.&nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schwartzreport.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-5.16.12-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97787\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations to boast of his foreign policy record, inflating his role at times, and lash out at the world body. He warned Europe it faces ruin from \u201cdouble-tailed monster\u201d policies on migration and green energy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK \u2014 Some countries\u2019 leaders are watching&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vanuatu-climate-change-international-court-justice-c34f9a25866159102503ac14ee4ea197\">rising seas<\/a>&nbsp;threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pakistan-floods-survivors-government-aid-548db0e90022fe6c5f244e9349cd5b4e\">floods<\/a>, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the world U.S. President Donald Trump described in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday didn\u2019t match the one many world leaders in the audience are contending with. Nor did it align with what scientists have long been observing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis \u2018climate change,\u2019 it\u2019s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAll 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-un-climate-change-renewable-energy-5c033a24ec523a56f8244d85f3672eda\" target=\"_blank\">Read the Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, September 26th, 2025 Author: &nbsp; &nbsp; MELINA WALLING and SETH BORENSTEINSource: &nbsp; &nbsp; Assoociated PressPublication Date: &nbsp; &nbsp; September 24, 2025 | 7:47 AM PDTLink:&nbsp;In front of drowning nations, Trump calls climate change a \u2018con job.\u2019 Here are the facts and context Stephan: &nbsp; Because of the willful ignorance&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/in-front-of-drowning-nations-trump-calls-climate-change-a-con-job-here-are-the-facts-and-context\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44231,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44230\/revisions\/44231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}