{"id":1002994,"date":"2018-11-28T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002994"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:12:49","slug":"trump-repeatedly-undermines-blockbuster-climate-change-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-repeatedly-undermines-blockbuster-climate-change-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Repeatedly Undermines Blockbuster Climate Change Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/25\/climate\/trump-climate-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tried to bury<\/a> his own administration\u2019s report outlining how climate change could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars and threaten the health of \u00a0thousands if action is not taken to address global warming soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Now, despite these dire warnings, Trump continues to deny climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI don\u2019t believe it.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/11\/26\/trump-dire-economic-forecast-climate-change-dont-believe\/2118152002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And the White House is trying to discredit the report written by nearly 300 scientists and 13 federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis is the most extreme version, and it\u2019s not based on facts.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/418502-sarah-sanders-calls-climate-change-report-most-extreme-version-not\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Sanders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump is now doubling down on his climate change denial.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOne of the problems that a lot of people like myself \u2014 we have very high levels of intelligence, but we\u2019re not necessarily such believers.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/11\/27\/president-trumps-full-washington-post-interview-transcript-annotated\/?utm_term=.159d21590ec4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhether or not it\u2019s man-made and whether or not the effects that you\u2019re talking about are there, I don\u2019t see it.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/11\/27\/president-trumps-full-washington-post-interview-transcript-annotated\/?utm_term=.8b7b03d52d3a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u2019s not even making sense. Like, really.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAnd when you\u2019re talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/11\/27\/president-trumps-full-washington-post-interview-transcript-annotated\/?utm_term=.159d21590ec4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump tried to bury his own administration\u2019s report outlining how climate change could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars and threaten the health of \u00a0thousands if action is not taken to address global warming soon. &nbsp; Now, despite these dire warnings, Trump continues to deny climate change. &nbsp; \u201cI don\u2019t believe it.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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