"(CNN) President Donald Trump on Monday baselessly asserted that climate change is not playing a role in the catastrophic wildfires overtaking forests across the west, rebutting an official briefing him who pleaded for the President listen to the science.
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| Trump at the briefing in California. Video at CNN article |
"I
don't think science knows, actually," Trump said at a Monday briefing
with officials in McClellan Park, California, with a laugh.
He told Wade Crowfoot, secretary of California's Natural Resources Agency: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch."
Crowfoot
had warned the President of the dangers of ignoring the science and
putting "our head in the sand and thinking that it's all about
vegetation management."
Climate experts tell CNN due to human-caused climate change, temperature extremes are climbing higher and the vegetation is drier, which affects fire behavior.
Trump
was also directly confronted by the state's Democratic governor, Gavin
Newsom, who has been adamant about climate change's role in the
wildfires, bluntly telling the President: "Climate change is real."
"We
obviously feel very strongly the hots are getting hotter," Newsom said. 'The dries are getting drier. When we're having heat domes, the likes
of which we've never seen in our history.' "
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