“I don’t think science really knows,” Trump said at a briefing Monday with officials in McClellan Park, California, with a laugh.
He told Wade Croft, secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency: “It will start to get cold. You see.”
Crowfoot warned the president of the dangers of ignoring science and “putting our heads in the sand and thinking all about plant management”.
Trump was also directly confronted by Gavin News, the state’s Democratic governor, who was adamant about the role of climate change in Woodfires and told the president: “Climate change is real.”
“We obviously feel very loud that the baskets are getting hot,” Newsme said. “Drying up. When we have a heat dome, we’ve never seen one in our history.”
The governor added, “We humbly come from the point of view of where science is, and the evidence we have observed is self-evident that climate change is real and it intensifies this,” the governor added.
The news told Trump that “please respect – and I know you do – the difference of opinion here because it relates to this core issue on the issue of climate change.”
“Absolutely,” Trump replied.
Trump and California officials did not agree that federal assistance with forest management must continue.
Before his briefing, Trump was asked by a reporter what the role of climate change was in the fire.
“Well, I think this is more of a management position. If you look at other countries, if you go to other countries in Europe, Austria, Finland … they are forest countries. They are in forests and they don’t don. ‘T has such problems,’ the President replied.
The president also suggested that other countries join the U.S. There is a need to take responsibility for their pollution levels, as the U.S. “Just a small tweak.”
“When you come to the weather, well, can India change its way? And can China change its way? And Russia? Can Russia change its way?” Trump asked.
Just like on Saturday, the President in his administration has celebrated the decision to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accord as soon as possible.
The global agreement was to take into account climate change – certainly experts on the issue say it is playing a role in large-scale blaze. India, China and Russia were all signatories.
Just as Trump toured the West Coast on Monday, Biden called the president a “climate barrier” and a “climate terrorist” in a speech warning of the devastating effects of climate change in Delaware. He also said that if Trump is given a second term in office, he will do untold damage to the country.
CNN’s Kevin Liptak, Nicky Robertson, Christina Waker, Sarah Mucha and Mave Rest contributed to this report.
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