SACRAMENTO | Donald Trump swept aside climate concerns on Monday, stressing that he would end up “cooling down” during a briefing in California on the fires that have ravaged the west coast for more than a week.
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“It will eventually cool,” assured the US president during an exchange with Wade Crowfoot, a local official with the California Natural Resources Protection Agency in Sacramento.
“I don’t think science really knows,” added the Republican candidate, who regularly makes climate skepticism.
“This does not cool down in truth Mr. President #realclimate change,” Mr. Crowfoot responded on Twitter, accompanying his post with a graphic of rising temperatures in California.
“The observed evidence speaks for itself: climate change is real and it worsens” fires, also insisted Gavin Newsom, Governor of California.
Dozens of blazes have been devastating the west coast of the United States for days and have already killed at least 35 people since the start of the summer, including 27 this week alone in the three states of Washington, Oregon and California.
The fires that are increasing across the globe are associated with various phenomena anticipated by scientists due to global warming. The increase in temperature, the increase in heat waves and the drop in precipitation in places are thus an ideal combination for the development of fires.