The denial of climate change is certainly not new, given that climate deniers were hard at work 30-40 years ago when the impacts of climate change were nowhere near as severe as now, but climate denialism got a seat at the high table of international leaders last week. The person chaperoning it there was US President Donald Trump. As he rambled on at the United Nations General Assembly, he resorted to his non-serious shock-and-awe approach to pontificate on climate change.

This, he bombastically declared, was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” President Trump went on to loftily and unscientifically announce that the carbon footprint is “nonsense” and “a hoax made up by people with........

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