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    Michael Hiltzik: In a strikingly ignorant tweet, Trump gets almost everything about California wildfires wrong

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Aug 06, 2018 4 minutes

    No one would mistake President Donald Trump for an expert on climate change or water policy, but a tweet he issued late Sunday about California's wildfires deserves some sort of award for most glaring misstatements about those two issues in the smallest number of words.

    Trump blamed the fires on "bad environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized." He complained that water needed for firefighting is being "diverted into the Pacific Ocean."

    What he overlooked, plainly, is the increasing agreement among experts that intensifying climate change has contributed to the intensity of the wildfire season. California's woodlands have been getting drier and

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