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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Melina Walling and Seth Borenstein

'Green scam': At UN, watched by drowning nations' leaders, Trump assails the ethos of climate change

APTOPIX UN General Assembly - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Some countries' leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.

But the world U.S. President Donald Trump described in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday didn't match the one many world leaders in the audience are contending with. Nor did it align with what scientists have long been observing.

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