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The Trump administrator questions the UN climate report: & # 039; I want to see who drew it & # 039;
Days later, an international panel of scientists issued a harsh warning about the short window in which world leaders can act to avoid catastrophes. climate change, the president of the United States did not comment if EE. UU accept or act on the results.
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But in new comments on Wednesday, the State Department seemed to question the report of the U.N. while defending the administration's environmental policies.
A panel of more than 90 scientists from the United Nations. posted a warning report that the world has approximately 12 years to drastically reduce carbon emissions before the impact of climate change is irreversible.
When asked about the report on the White House lawn, president Donald Trump He said he will be watching.
"They gave it to me, and I want to see who drew it, you know, what group drew it, I can give you reports that are fabulous, and I can give you reports that are not so good, but I will, be watching, absolutely," he told reporters. .
The U.N. group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007 for its work to share information on climate change.
The report published this week. It was written by 91 co-authors from 40 countries, cited more than 6,000 references and incorporated 42,000 comments from governments and experts.
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In this file photo of October 26, 2015, fish swim over a patch of bleached coral at Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii, off the island of Oahu. The warmer water is repeatedly causing massive global bleaching events on Earth's fragile coral reefs.
While State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert did not answer a question about the report on Tuesday, a department spokeswoman said the administration has "charged communities, individuals and industries" by pushing back federal regulations and allowing them to develop your own policies. The information provided by the Department of State did not address the specific findings of the report or its request for "Quick changes, powerful and unprecedented."To the policies of the governments and to the behavior of the consumers.
But on Wednesday, the State Department appeared to challenge the report, and Deputy Spokesman Robert Palladino told ABC News: "There are inherent limitations in trying to assess the projected impacts and costs of warming at a specific temperature and period of time. "
When repeatedly asked if EE. UU He believes that the report is true, Palladino dodged the questions and instead praised the US record in clean energy technology and carbon emissions reduction: "We are leading the world in affordable, abundant and safe energy, while at the same time "We protect the environment and we are reducing emissions by creating labor innovations. This is the policy of the United States, and we are doing well in this regard, "he said, noting a 14 percent decrease in US carbon emissions between 2005 and 2017.
But in its quest to "unload" those communities and industries, the administration is pushing back the same environmental policies that some accredit with the emission reductions that Palladino praised, including the reduction of pollution controls in coal plants, the standards of fuel efficiency in automobiles and standards. on methane waste. It is part of an administration effort to repeal the Clean Energy Plan of the Obama era, although that effort has been delayed by demands from several states led by the Democrats.
Even by the Trump administration own measure, these policies will increase carbon emissions, to say nothing of the UN report's call for additional action.
The Environmental Protection Agency, charged with protecting human health and the environment, said on Monday that the government does not comment on specific findings, but thanked the US panel.
"We appreciate the hard work of scientists and experts, many from the United States, who developed this report under considerable time pressure," an EPA spokesman said in a statement. "Governments do not formally endorse the specific findings presented by the authors."
Meridith McGraw of ABC News contributed to this report.
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