Scientific American cited Donald Trump’s handling of Covid-19 and his skepticism of expert opinion and mainstream science on issues like climate change as the impetus for its decision to endorse Joe Biden
Scientific American backed Democrat Joe Biden for president on Tuesday, the magazine's first-ever White House endorsement in its 175-year history.
The editorial focuses much of its attention on the pandemic response and Trump’s repeated attempts to minimize the severity of the situation, which has killed nearly 200,000 Americans to date. amid the ongoing wildfires that are raging along the West Coast. Trump traveled to California Monday to assess the situation and notably dismissed the state’s top natural resources official who raised the effect rising temperatures are having in exacerbating wildfires, with the president saying “it’ll start getting cooler, just watch.”
Biden on Monday called the president a “climate arsonist” for not confronting the need for dramatic action to address climate change.
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