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

NEW YORK (AP) — 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. “This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in...