When the Trump administration released the Fourth National Climate Assessment on Friday, the report suggested we are in for massive economic damage if climate change isn’t addressed soon. 

The fallout has been interesting. Let us catch you up. 

• President Donald Trump, whose administration issued the report, on Tuesday said he doesn’t believe the report. He told the Washington Post he wants the cleanest air and cleanest water, though he didn’t mention greenhouse gases directly or explain how water quality figures into global warming directly. He mentioned that air and water in the U.S. are “at a record clean.” The president said he and other “highly intelligent” people don’t believe in climate change. Trump mentioned that he is intelligent, but appeared to mix the concepts of weather and climate in his statements.Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders made similar comments about clean water and air being a focus, during a news conference that was her fourth since August.
• The European Union has pledged to be climate-neutral by 2050. After that, any emissions of greenhouse gases would have to be offset by planting trees or sinking the carbon underground, the BBC reported. The EU projects the moves would cut premature deaths by 40 percent.
• NBC News reported that we don’t have to wait to see damage from climate change. It’s already happening.