Zinke, Perdue React To Climate Change Report

What are your reactions to the federal government's recent report on climate change?  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said so far he's only been able to read the headline summaries of the report.

"I don't discount anything until I've read it. My philosophy, best science, best practices, greatest good longer term...that's the American conservation ethic."

Meanwhile, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue said.

"I've asked our department what can we do in the issue, whether climate change is man-made or not, what should be be doing? Those are the things we are doing with technology of cover-crops and better watershed protections and USDA, better farming practices, precision agriculture, less inputs and more outputs. That's what we're about."

Perdue noted U.S. greenhouse emissions have gone down since 2005.

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