WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump flies to California on Monday to assess the state’s raging forest fires, he will come face to face with the grim consequences of a reality he has stubbornly refused to accept: the devastating effects of a warming planet.
The lethal fires spreading across the West — like the coronavirus that has ravaged the country for months — are a warning for the president that many voters may hold him and his administration accountable for brushing aside scientific experts and failing to effectively mobilize the government to minimize natural disasters that have claimed lives, damaged property and threatened economic prosperity.
The president’s record is also more consequential, experts say, because the amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere has now passed the point at which scientists say it would be possible to avert many of the worst effects of global warming — even if tough emissions policies are later enacted.
“Other countries around the world are obsessed with the Paris climate accord, which shackles economies and has done nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and those on the radical left are pushing the Green New Deal, which would outlaw cows, cars and planes,” said Judd Deere, a White House spokesman. He said Trump had put in place “common sense policies that have kept our air, water and environment clean.
In fact, Trump has repeatedly mocked the science of climate change since long before he ran for president. In 2012, he tweeted: “In the 1920’s people were worried about global cooling — it never happened. Now it’s global warming. Give me a break!” He also tweeted that the concept of climate change “was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.”
Two days before the White House published the 2018 volume of that report, Trump mockingly tweeted, “Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS — Whatever happened to Global Warming?” And Trump’s first appointee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, declared early in his tenure that carbon dioxide was not a primary contributor to global warming, a statement starkly at odds with the scientific consensus.
HES AN IDIOT
That someone starting a fire has nothing to do with global warming. Neglecting to do control burns has nothing to do with global warming. TrumpPence2020
CA, OR, WA, manage your dead forest and you wont have this problem, the fires dont jump to Canada, and they jump East either, they are man made catastrophes. Are you guys investigating your local arsonist terrorist groups?
Climate Change is the new nickname for ANTIFA Arsonists?
Or it could be our terrible policy and lack of controlled burns to mitigate the intensity of the fires. You also leave out the possibility of arson being the cause. But anything to shit on Trump right?
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