Bahamas PM pledges to fight climate change — with or without the US
By Jesse Chase-Lubitz, 4:33 p.m. ET
If you’re not watching too closely, it might be easy to assume that global action on climate change is on its way out. On Tuesday, Trump spent a significant amount of his time speaking to the U.N. General Assembly disparaging climate action. He called it a “scam” and a “con” — and called climate scientists at the U.N. “stupid people.”