Global media outlets cover these firestorms like the disasters they are, but too few point out that human-driven climate change is their shared accelerant.
back in the us 13 federal agencies in washington rolled out a serious warning about the environmental and economic threat of climate change in the united states. president trump is not sold. you have china and japan all of asia and these other countries right now we are at the cleanest we have ever been at the 1600 page report say temperatures are one.8 degrees higher than 100 years. ago he waves in hurricanes and waves in hurricanes and wildfires are more severe and climate change could cut gdp by 10 percent by 2100ld if no change changes. people can differ how much and how rapidly but it is people can differ how much and how rapidly but it is clear it is changingnd it . you will see devastation to crops already hurricanes t because of the ocean warming is certainly you see in vivid color thoserr horrible wildfire.
against the president s reactions and his partisan and political reactions. what we ll continue to see particularly we saw it not only the forest fires but we re seeing it with the hurricanes, we re seeing it, say with devastation across the united states, we ll continue to see president trump who has to adjust to the reality of climate change in the united states and in the world because everybody else is adjusting to it. you know what s frustrating, david, is we should be frank about this. republican politicians for years have resisted adopting the science on climate change, but right at the time where it s become so obvious to everyone that they are coming around we have a president who is so untethered to reality he can have multiple facts at the same time and it s not clear he ll ever get there. this man can t get off the idea that trade deficits are a loss of income.
climate change deniers and skeptics in the country. respect the trout. i m not a denier. i won t put it that way, but ipt skeptical as to how much control we have over it. reporter: climate change experts say the skeptics are denying what s unfolding before their very eyes, and climate change is a hard sell around here. i just don t think that climate change is real. reporter: is there anything a scientist can show you if he was 500 years old and told me it s changed, i probably would believe him. in my lifetime, i didn t sigh any change. reporter: you would have to hear from a 500 years old scientist? right. reporter: one scientist described it as the ground zero of climate change in the united states, where the coastline is disappearing, in large part according to scientific studies