Thomas Hale is Professor in Public Policy at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, Hale discusses global approaches to climate change: President Trump just called climate change science ‘the biggest con job’ — what is your view? The words we heard from Donald Trump were words we had heard him say on different occasions, so there weren’t any surprises in learning what he thinks — the surprise was the length at which he went on about climate change and the context in which he spoke, at the United Nations General Assembly. Yet, the day after he spoke, 121 countries joined the Secretary General’s climate summit. So, the United States came off as being extremely isolated, the only country to have left the Paris Agreement, t

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