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The report made waves in Washington as it had been made public the day after Thanksgiving, suggesting that the Trump administration was attempting to bury the findings. The assessment goes against the views of President Donald Trump, who has always denied any evidence of climate change. Last year, he announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, which aims to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases. Earlier this month, he tweeted, "Brutal and Cold Cold Blast could break ALL RECORDS – What happened to global warming?"
On Monday, Trump rejected the findings of the report on the economic impact of climate change. "I do not believe it," he told reporters at the White House South Lawn protest, as he was leaving to hold electoral rallies in Mississippi.
Many politicians have seized the publication of the report as an opportunity to promote their own plans to mitigate climate change. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat elected to represent part of New York City in Congress, has touted her Green New Deal proposal, which aims to create a committee in the House that would develop a plan to generate electricity from 39, renewable energies.
"People will die if we do not start fighting climate change as soon as possible," she said in the tweet.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a potential Democratic presidential candidate for 2020, also tweeted about the climate risk disclosure law she introduced in September, which would require publicly traded companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions.
