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Article snippet: MORE on Tuesday disputed the scientific consensus that human activity contributes to climate change in his most expansive rejection yet of his own administration's report on global warming. In an interview with The Washington Post, Trump said “I don’t see” that climate change is man-made and disagreed with the report's findings that it poses significant health and safety concerns. “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,” Trump said. “You look at our air and our water and it’s right now at a record clean.” On the issue of whether global warming is caused by humans, Trump added: “As to whether or not it’s man-made and whether or not the effects that you’re talking about are there, I don’t see it — not nearly like it is.” But Trump said the air quality in places like China, Russia and South America is “incredibly dirty,” an apparent acknowledgement that different countries have looser environmental standards. “And when you're talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over,” he said. “I mean, we take thousands of tons of garbage off our beaches all the time that comes over from Asia. It just flows right down the Pacific, it flows, and we say where does this come from.” The comments come days after his administration published its first National Climate Assessment, which found that climate change could upend daily life for many A... Link to the full article to read more