Daily US Times: US President Donald Trump has dismissed concerns over climate change on a visit to fire-ravaged California, telling an official there it would “start getting cooler”.
Blazes in California, Washington, and Oregon state have burned almost 2m hectares (5m acres) of land and killed at least 35 people since early August.
Climate change sceptic Donald Trump blames the crisis on poor forest management.
Democratic presidential candidate and former VP Joe Biden called Mr Trump “a climate arsonist” earlier on Monday.
He told an event in his home state Delaware that four more years of his opponent in the White House would see “more of America ablaze”.
During his visit to the West Coast, President Trump repeated his argument that poor forest management was to blame for the fire as he met Californian officials involved in the battle against the wildfires at a stop near Sacramento, in the centre of the state.
Dismissing one official’s plea to not “ignore the science” on climate change, the President said: “It’ll start getting cooler, you just watch… I don’t think science knows actually.”
When being asked by a reporter in California whether climate change was a factor in the massive wildfires, President Trump responded: “I think this is more of a management situation.”
The President claimed that other countries had not dealt with the same level of forest fires, despite major conflagrations in the Amazon rainforest and Australia in recent years that experts attributed to the changing climate.
He said: “They don’t have problems like this.”
He claimed they have very explosive trees, but they don’t have problems like this.
“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 President added.
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