President Donald Trump on Monday suggested global warming will reverse itself and dismissed climate change as a cause of ferocious fires engulfing swaths of the US West during a briefing with local officials in California.
Mr Trump, who flew into Sacramento in central California on the third day of a reelection campaign swing, pushed back against state leaders who said that climate change underlies the ever-stronger blazes.
This was Mr Trump's first visit to California since the devastating blazes began there and in Washington and Oregon. On arrival in McClellan Park, near Sacramento, Mr Trump repeated his argument that the wildfires are due instead to insufficient maintenance of forest areas to make them less combustible."With regard to the forests, when trees fall down after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry. They become really like a match stick," he said."They just explode."
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