Trump thinks his anti-green culture war is worth a $1 billion donation

The history of America’s reckoning with climate change can be summarized incompletely and too quickly as follows:

For years, it had been quietly bubbling up in environmental circles on the left. Then Al Gore starred in “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006, helping push the issue into the mainstream. There was real political momentum behind addressing it: Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi filmed an ad in support of legislation, and Donald Trump signed a public letter doing the same.