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President Donald Trump said he doesn't "believe" a major report that includes the economic impact of climate change on the U.S. made public by his administration on Friday – a holiday week release.
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Trump on Monday said that he's read some of the report and that "it's fine," but he doesn't believe some of the analysis that predicts possible devastating effects on the economy.
Here are five things to know about the National Climate Assessment released last week.
What is the report?
The report released Friday is part of a series of reports published by the U.S. Global Change Research Program to analyze research on the impacts of climate change on the U.S., which Congress established in 1990. The research program consults with hundreds of subject matter experts from 13 federal agencies, state and local governments, and academic researchers. The experts look at the available research and models to write the comprehensive report and evaluate how confident they are in the findings.
The first volume of the report, the Climate Science Special Report released last year, was designed as an "authoritative assessment of the science of climate change" to inform policymakers and the public as they decide how to respond to climate change, according to the executive summary. The National Climate Assessment released last week looks more specifically at the impact of climate change in different parts of the U.S. and how local leaders are working to respond to those impacts.
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Nov. 26, 2018, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Mississippi for rallies.
The report concludes that "the evidence of human-caused climate change is overwhelming and continues to strengthen, that the impacts of climate change are intensifying across the country, and that climate-related threats to Americans’ physical, social, and economic well-being are rising."
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It also found that while Americans in some areas are working to limit the negative consequences of climate change none of the work being done "currently approach the scales needed to avoid substantial damages to the U.S. economy, environment, and human health and well-being over the coming decades."
The White House said in a statement the report is "largely based on the most extreme scenario" and doesn't account for reduced greenhouse gas emissions and new technologies that reduce pollution. Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters also said in a statement the White House wants more transparency in these reports.
The report went through an extensive process since 2016, including being posted for 60 days of public comment in January of this year and multiple rounds of review to incorporate comments from government agencies and other experts.
The version released publicly last week aims to make the information accessible to a broad audience but cites more than 6,000 unique references and consulted 300 different authors, according to the release.
(MORE: Climate change will severely affect US economy, particularly in Midwest: Report)
Concerns the administration tried to bury it
Climate experts, researchers that worked on the report, activists, and Democratic lawmakers have raised concern that the Trump administration tried to bury the report by releasing it the day after Thanksgiving.
A woman holds an umbrella for shade as she walks across the dry grass on Boston Common in Boston during a heat wave, July 26, 2016.
While the report still received widespread news coverage, critics say the timing combined with Trump's track record on casting doubt on climate science and the administration's push to revenge.
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