Thanks Mr. Trump for making us laugh again. Is there anyone else in recorded history so proudly ignorant that they broadcast it live via Twitter to all their adoring fans and those of us that see the truth?
Cal Fire official on Trump's wildfire theories: 'I don’t know what he's getting at'
Cal Fire official rejects Trump claim about water needed to fight wildfires
President Trump’s claim that California’s environmental policies are preventing firefighters from accessing enough water to stop the state’s wildfires has been roundly dismissed by experts and state officials.
Trump made the dubious claim that “readily available water” is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean for environmental reasons and blamed
California Gov. Jerry Brown in a series of tweets.
“California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire from spreading!” Trump tweeted on Monday.
“I cannot speak to that. I don’t know what he’s getting at. I have no idea,” McLean said. He added that California’s water policy has had “no effect to our water supply.”
On top of calling
climate change a hoax, Trump has been critical of the U.S. Forest Service’s forest fire prevention campaign with Smokey Bear.
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Kate Poole, the senior director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) water division, said it’s hard to know where to begin in responding to Trump’s tweets because they’re fundamentally wrong on many levels. She said the firefighters have plenty of water, adding that the fires are a manifestation of the effects of
climate change.
“These fires are what it means in the West to live with higher temperatures, less snowpack and more frequent and intense droughts. All of those problems are a result of climate change. Where’s the president’s outrage about that? We’d even settle for a coherent policy to tackle it, rather than make it worse,” Poole told Yahoo News
She said Trump, in complaining about water “diverted” to the Pacific, seems to not understand that rivers flow downhill toward the ocean.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cal-fire...theories-dont-know-hes-getting-190012177.html
