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SAN FRANCISCO — Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday compared President Donald Trump’s administration to Nazi Germany and issued a dire warning about Trump’s use of power in a speech devoted to climate change. Speaking at an event at the start of San Francisco’s Climate Week, Gore said the Trump administration was “trying to create their own preferred version of reality” to achieve their sweeping objectives similar to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party in the 1930s and ‘40s. “I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement,” Gore said to an...

NEW YORK (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon and the mayor of New York on Tuesday announced plans to launch "Climate Week NYC" on the sidelines of a UN summit in September to galvanize public support for a landmark global warming treaty by year's end. The event, to be held September 21-25, will feature five days of cultural events, workshops, seminars, and other activities organized by non-governmental organizations, businesses, artists, and academia. Ban told a press conference that it would coincide with the summit he is hosting at UN headquarters on September 22 "to mobilize the political momentum needed to...