President-elect Donald Trump has called global warming “a canard,” “a hoax” and “nonexistent.” He once said that the idea that global warming is caused by fossil fuel emissions was “created by and for the Chinese to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” Asked why sea levels are rising, Trump replied that “scientists have no idea what’s going to happen. It’s weather.”

Pressed to acknowledge that climate change plays a role in the frequency and severity of wildfires, Trump declared, “It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch.” During his first term, he blamed a catastrophic round of wildfires in California on bad forest management: “You have forests all over the world. You don’t have fires like you do in California.” Neither then nor now did Trump mention California’s new normal: prolonged droughts and fierce winds.

Trump has promised that as soon as he returns to the White House, he will withdraw (again) from the Paris Climate Accords; “drill, baby, drill” for oil and gas; and “rescind all

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