When President Donald Trump visited the piles of ash and charred rubble of what used to be Paradise, Calif., this month, he said that the Camp Fire was a “really, really bad one.”
“We’ve never seen anything like this in California,” he said. “It’s total devastation.”
Reporters asked the president whether seeing what remained of the northern California town and walking among the ashes of the dead made him rethink his opinion on climate change — that it is a hoax, fake news or simply nonexistent.
But according to the National Climate Assessment released less than a week after Trump visited the fire-stricken state, climate change is making wildfires worse and more common.