Climate Changed
Trump Rejects His Government's Warning of Climate Change Costs
- U.S. economy faces hundreds of billions in costs, report says
- ‘I don’t believe it,’ Trump says of forecast by scientists
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President Donald Trump dismissed U.S. government scientists’ predictions that climate change will impose devastating economic costs.
“I don’t believe it,” Trump told reporters Monday on the White House lawn, when asked about the grim forecast in the government’s National Climate Assessment. “Right now, we’re the cleanest we’ve ever been.”