Trump dismisses his own administration's climate report: 'I don't believe it'

On November 26, 2018, President Trump told reporters outside the White House that he did not believe the National Climate Assessment, a report produced by more than a dozen federal agencies and released by his own administration. He said he had read parts of it and that it was 'fine,' but rejected its conclusion that climate change could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars a year by the end of the century. The assessment warned that warming-charged extremes were already worsening, with nearly $400 billion in U.S. weather damage since 2015. Trump's remarks extended his administration's pattern of downplaying climate science, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, and rolling back emissions rules.

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