Global warming will be reversed

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US President Donald Trump arrived in California to receive information about the wildfires raging across swaths of the country’s west coast, telling officials that global warming will be reversed.

The quick stop during a three-day re-election campaign was the first time Trump visited California since the devastating fires started.

Earlier, Democratic challenger Joe Biden called Trump a “climate arsonist” whose policies are contributing to increasingly powerful natural disasters.

Upon arrival at McClellan Park near Sacramento in central California, Trump repeated his argument that the increasing danger from wildfires in places like California, Oregon and Washington is due to insufficient maintenance of forest areas to make them less combustible.

“There has to be strong forest management,” he said.

“With respect to forests, when the trees fall after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry. They become really like a matchstick,” he said. “They just explode.”

Trump met with California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has made a strong case that the fires are primarily driven by global warming.

Mr. Newsom acknowledged that “we have not done justice in our forest management,” although he noted that more than half of the land in California is under federal, not state, control.

But he said the overwhelming cause of the problem is much greater.

“The hot spots are getting hotter, the dry ones are getting drier,” he said.

“We present the science and the observed evidence is self-evident: that climate change is real and that is making it worse.”

Later, Trump suggested that global warming will reverse, saying the climate will “start to cool down.”

He brushed aside concerns about climate change and said, “It’s going to start getting cold. Just watch.”

Wade Crowfoot, director of the California Natural Resources Agency, responded, “I wish science would agree with you.”

“I don’t think science knows, actually,” Trump responded.

Biden had previously criticized his presidential rival as a “climate arsonist” whose refusal to take global warming seriously would exacerbate the crisis if the Republican president is reelected in November.

“If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America on fire?” Biden said, lashing out at Trump for not “taking responsibility” for the current wildfire crisis.

He added: “We need a president who respects science, who understands that the damage of climate change is already here.

“We can commit to doing this together, because we know that climate change is the existential challenge that will determine our future as a country.

“Or we can do it the Donald Trump way: ignore the facts, deny the reality, which amounts to total surrender and a lack of leadership.”

Wildfires have devastated parts of California, Oregon and Washington, leaving at least 35 people dead so far and burning nearly five million acres.



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