US Wildfires: I Don’t Think Science Knows About Climate, Says Trump

The President of the United States of America has suspended concerns over climate change on a visit to California’s wildfires.

During his visit to the US West Coast, Donald Trump denied climate change, telling an official, “I don’t think science knows about global warming.”

The wildfire has burned vast land areas and killed at least 36 people since early August in several states, and the scientists blamed the global temperature on human activities.

More so, Mr. Trump has accused inadequate forest management for the wildfires that have burned almost 2 million hectares of land in California, Oregon, and Washington State.

The US President continued his argument on forest management as he met Californian officials involved in the wildfires’ battle.

However, Donald Trump criticized California’s forest management in 2018, pointing to Finland, where he said they raked and cleared the forests to prevent fires. 

When a reporter asked whether climate change was a factor in the huge wildfires, Mr. Trump replied: “I think this is more of a management situation.”

He also alleged that other countries had not dealt with the same forest fires, despite major blazes in Australia that specialists associated with the changing climate.

“They don’t have problems like this,” he said. “They have very explosive trees, but they don’t have problems like this.”

He added: “When you get into climate change, well is India going to change its ways? And is China going to change its ways? And Russia? Is Russia going to change its ways?”

The wildfire has caused thousands of homes and other properties to be destroyed in California, Oregon, and Washington State.

Officials have said dozens of people are missing, ten people have been killed in Oregon in the past week, and warned that the death toll could rise.

California Governor Gavin Newsom acknowledged at a meeting with Mr. Trump that we have not done justice on our forest management, but he said, “more than half of California’s land was under federal, not state, control.”

The state owns just three percent, with the rest owned by private individuals or companies or Native American groups.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown has said her state is “facing the perfect firestorm and called the moment truly the bellwether for climate change on the West Coast.”

“And this is a wake-up call for all of us that we have got to do everything in our power to tackle climate change,” she said.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee reported the situation as apocalyptic and condemned Mr. Trump’s stance on the climate.