President Donald Trump touched down in California on Monday to survey the wildfire damage and immediately launched into his usual talking points about poor forest management while denying the role of climate change.
Trump arrived in Sacramento as more than two dozen major wildfires burned across the state. More than 2 million acres in the state have burned this year, a nearly 2,000% increase in land burned compared to this time last year.
At a roundtable discussion about the wildfires, California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot said Trump’s focus on forest management was obscuring the grim reality that climate change was behind the historically high temperatures and years of drought.
“It will start getting cooler. You just watch,” Trump fired back at Crowfoot, adding, “I don’t think science knows actually.”
Minutes before, when Trump had just disembarked his plane, reporters repeatedly asked him to acknowledge how climate change has […]
There is climate change, there is poor forest management but what seems to be getting ignored is arson by the same people who are burning cities such as Portland.
“The same people who are burning cities such as Portland”, where did you find that info? I haven’t heard police or fire authorities say this. Do you have a source(s) you would share?
You are wrong on many levels. First, cities such as Portland have not been ‘burned.’ At this point you have no excuse for such ignorance. If you read this NYT piece written some time ago during the occupation of parts of Portland over the objections of its elected leaders, you will see the fires were few and isolated near the courthouse. The tensions are lower now that the ‘troops’ are not provoking yet more violence
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/portland-protests-fact-check.html
Second, there is no evidence the people you pretend are burning cities are burning the forests. Since logic does not work for you, maybe the opinions of Oregon law enforcement will.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/police-political-activists-didnt-cause-oregons-wildfires/
Mad King Donald holding court dismissing the know-nothing peasants he can barely tolerate. The king knows all and is divinely guided or is it “l’état, c’est moi”? The king discourages any info that does not praise his wise and wonderous reign.
It’s the temperature, Phil. Everything is dry and very hot, so what can you expect but fires, and as the above message shows the temperature being so hot that the power lines and transformers cannot help but get hot and even explode into more fires.