Tackling Climate Change Helps 'Every Human on the Planet,' Says Scientist

Following President Trump's claim this week at the United Nations that climate change is "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world," one of the world's most influential scientists has told Newsweek that opposition to climate change policies is unscientific.

Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest conservation and biodiversity organization, and has appeared on lists of the 100 most influential people on earth.

"So often when we hear people say climate change isn't real or it's not caused by humans or 'it's not bad,' our immediate instinct is to line up all of the data and all of the facts, the thousands of pages of reports, the millions of scientific studies that have been done over the last hundred and fifty years and hit