Experts Outraged by Trump’s Wildfire Diagnosis

Published in ABC
(Spain) on 8 August 2018
by Carlos Pérez Cruz (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Marta Quirós Alarcón. Edited by Nkem Okafor.
The President of the United States has stated his opinion through Twitter

California wildfires are generating much controversy in the United States. The president of the country wished to express his views through social media.

It should be noted that the last fire, known as Mendocino Complex in Northern California, has already devastated more than 445 square miles, and only 30 percent of the fire is contained.

No one gives scientific credence to President Trump, who tweeted that these wildfires are made much worse by “the bad environmental laws” that prevent access to “massive amounts of readily available water” which is “diverted into the Pacific Ocean.”

As pointed out by a Los Angeles Times journalist, Trump is mixing up the request of some Republican officials for more irrigation water with the water available to put out fires, particularly as there are several lakes available in California’s affected areas.

His complaint about environmental laws is likewise peculiar, considering that Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.


Trump indigna a los expertos con su diagnóstico sobre los fuegos

El presidente de Estados Unidos ha expresado su opinión a través de Twitter

Los incendios de California están generando una gran polémica en Estados Unidos. El presidente del país, a través de las redes sociales ha querido expresar su opinión.

Hay que recordar que el último, el conocido como Medoncio Complex, al norte de California, lleva ya más de 115.000 hectáreas arrasadas y solo está controlado el 30% del fuego.

Nadie da crédito científico al presidente Donald Trump, que escribió en Twitter que estos incendios están siendo mucho peores «por las malas leyes medioambientales» que no permiten acceder a «enormes cantidades de agua» que se «desvían al Pacífico».

Tal y como señalaba un periodista de Los Angeles Times, Trump confunde la petición de algunos funcionarios republicanos de más agua para riego con el agua disponible para apagar incendios, máxime cuando son varios los lagos disponibles en las zonas afectadas de California.

Curiosa también su queja sobre las leyes medioambientales, cuando Donald Trump retiró a Estados Unidos del Acuerdo Climático de París de 2015.
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