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Donald Trump's barbs against climate change in his 57-minute-long speech at the UN General Assembly should hardly come as a surprise. During his first term, the US President spent a lot of time denying the well-established science that explains how fossil fuels have been accelerating global warming. And, ever since his return to power in January 2025, Trump has taken aggressive steps to make climate denialism an official policy.

Now, he has used the high-level UN event to call climate change “the greatest con job ever”—doubling down on the US' decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement and discouraging countries from investing in green energy.

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