Trump and his fellow climate villains are making their presence felt at critical global warming talks

Analysis: After the US caused a stir at a major UN summit in Poland, Josh Gabbatiss considers the wider implications of nation-level climate change denial

US president Donald Trump has made his lack of belief in climate change, and his love of coal, very clear (AFP/Getty Images)

While most of the UK is preoccupied with the never-ending Brexit saga, over in Poland world leaders have gathered to hash out the terms of an agreement that makes Theresa May’s troubles look trivial.

The Paris Climate Accord has the potential to shape our planet’s history for decades, centuries and even millennia into the future by tying the world’s squabbling mess of factions and ideologies into one common goal: cutting greenhouse gas emissions and saving the planet from climate change.

Delegates in the coal mining town of Katowice are trying to establish how to make such an agreement work in practice, but predictably their efforts are being hampered by the petty (by comparison) concerns of world leaders.