President Trump 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
"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.
If you look at other countries, if you go to other countries in Europe, Austria, Finland ... they're forest nations. They're in forests and they don't have problems like this," the President responded. The President also suggested that other nations need to take responsibility for their levels of pollution more than the US, because the US is"just a small speck."But when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, the US doesn't represent a"speck.
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