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President Trump is brushing aside the federal government's National Climate Assessment, which found that climate change could do immeasurable harm to the United States.

The report, released on Friday, states that global warming is a threat to everything — the country's security, economy, natural resources, and infrastructure, as well as the health of Americans. Trump's not concerned about any of this, he told The Washington Post on Tuesday.

"One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence, but we're not necessarily such believers," he said. "You look at our air and our water, and it's right now at a record clean." Trump added that whether or not climate change "is man-made and whether or not the effects that you're talking about are there, I don't see it."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.