President Donald Trump called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetuated” and a “scam” during his address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
In a lengthy diatribe against the long-established science, President Trump said climate change was “made by stupid people” and warned other countries against enacting green policies.
“If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail,” he told the audience of more than 150 world leaders and other officials.
“All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong,” Trump claimed. “They were made by stupid people.”
Read more : Scientists Slam Trump Administration’s Climate Report as a ‘Mockery’
“They said global warming will kill the world, bu