Overview

• In a Sept. 23 UN General Assembly speech, the president said global warming is “not happening” and claimed UN and other agencies’ predictions were wrong.
• He urged world leaders to abandon what he called a “green scam,” warning countries would fail if they did not, and asserted that his own forecasts have been correct.
• His administration has re-withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement, is expanding oil production, and is cutting Biden-era incentives for electric vehicles and renewable energy, with plans to void the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases.
• He praised coal as “clean and beautiful” and dismissed solar and wind as costly and ineffective, even as data cited in coverage show most new 2024 renewable projects were more cost-efficient than fossil fuel power.
• Coverage also highlights independent U.S. research reporting prolonged “dangerous heat” worldwide this year, with Japan experiencing roughly 70% of such events, while leaders from Indonesia and Brazil reiterated support for the Paris framework.