He mocked renewables as a “joke,” praised “clean, beautiful coal” and declared climate change the “greatest con job ever.”

President Donald Trump used his UN comeback address Tuesday to champion fossil fuels and deride green technologies on the eve of a climate summit called by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to galvanize countries into issuing updated emission-reduction plans.

The blistering, nearly hour-long speech railed against everything from immigration to what he cast as the UN’s failure to help secure peace in Gaza and Ukraine.

But some of his sharpest barbs were reserved for climate change — seemingly tailored to a political base that sees climate science as another front in America’s culture wars, ahead of a major climate announcement expected Wednesday from the United Stat

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