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After the Trump administration released its report, I asked the

Jan. 10, 2018 by Carolyn Mueller

After the Trump administration released its report, I asked the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Richard Mann, about it. He said the organization had been working with the White House "for some time" in trying to put some sort of "plan" together, but "we've never made a plan."

"It's important to remember that we are not going to do anything that's going to undermine the science," Mann told me. "We're going to do what we think is right and what is best for the country."

"We're not going to do that because we are concerned about the health of the U.S. economy," he added.

But by the end of the week, a number of Trump administration officials seemed to back the report, including the head of the Trump Organization.

On Sunday night, a spokesman for Trump's transition team put it this way: "We have been very clear that the results of the science assessment are in line with what President Trump said and did yesterday afternoon, and we expect the findings to be well received and widely accepted."

That's because the report was based on scientific data gathered by the government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and published in a March report by former President George W. Bush's National Academy of Sciences (NASSA) on global warming.