"Climate change will have no impact on the US economy" | Internationale

Donald Trump continues to show his radical position on climate change. On Monday, the US president contradicted a recent report by his government, stating that he did not believe that climate change could have a negative impact on the US economy in the coming decades.

"I do not think so," said Trump in responding to a reporter on the report's conclusion, which warns that climate change would have a devastating effect on the country's North American economy.

The government released an official report last Friday that believes that unless measures are taken to change current climate trends, the consequences could cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars.

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According to the document, the impact of global warming could result in a contraction of the US economy of about 10%, which would be double the losses recorded during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

By order of Congress, the White House was forced to publish the assessment of the effects of time. She has, according to numerous press reports, decided to postpone her publication to "Black Friday" hoping that it would go unnoticed, given that it was the day after the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

Trump, which launched last year the process of withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement, He questioned the existence of climate change before he came to power and since then he has been skeptical about its effects.

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Last week, the president asked if there was a "global warming" when he recalled on his Twitter account that a wave of "brutal and prolonged colds" was looming in the United States .

Trump said today that he had "read part" of his government's report on the costs of climate change, but again blamed the phenomenon on other countries, such as "the China or Japan ". "Right now, we are the cleanest possible (in the US), it's very important to me, but if we're clean and the rest of the planet is dirty … (that can not be to be the case), we want clean air and water, "he said.

According to the conclusions of the report, from the end of the century, Americans are expected to face about $ 141 billion in excess heat-related deaths, 118 billion caused by the rise of the sea level and 32 billion by the damaged infrastructures.