US President Donald Trump has told the UN General Assembly that climate change was "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world".
Addressing the global body at its New York headquarters on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), he scoffed at past predictions warning of global disaster from climate change.
The vast majority of climate scientists have concluded climate change is happening, and that it is mainly caused by fossil fuel pollution.
Already, the world is seeing its effects: Floods are becoming more extreme and deadly, droughts are more widespread and severe and heat waves are more dangerous.
But Trump refused to be swayed and dismissed the scientific evidence.
"All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong," Trump said. "They were made by stupid people."
Source: www.9news.com.au
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