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President Biden said Friday that massive wildfires like the one that swept across parts of Colorado last week represent are being fueled by global warming.
US President Joe Biden (R) speaks, flanked by and First Lady Jill Biden (L), after touring a neighborhood destroyed by the Marshall Fire at the Louisville Recreation and Senior Center in Louisville, Colorado, January 7, 2022.
(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
“Because a combination of extreme drought – the driest period from June to December ever recorded – unusually high winds, no snow on the ground to start, created a tinderbox, a literal tinderbox,” Biden said in Louisville, Colorado, after touring damage left behind from the fire with local and state officials and first lady Jill.
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“We can’t ignore the reality that these fires are being super-charged,” Biden added. “They’re being super-charged by a change in the weather.”
Last November, during an appearance at the United Nations’ COP26 conference, Biden warned that climate is “an existential threat to human existence as we know it” and apologized for former President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.
Smoke from a wildfire rises in the background, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, in Superior, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zelio)
“The existential threat to human existence as we know it,” Biden said of the change in the climate. “And every day we delay, the cost of inaction increases.”
Biden also claimed at the time that the climate crisis is “a challenge of our collective lifetimes.”
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US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden meet with victims as they tour a neighborhood destroyed by the Marshall Fire in Louisville, Colorado, January 7, 2022.
(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
In December, while discussing the fatal tornadoes that ravaged parts of the South and Midwest and used the tragedy to highlight his own beliefs on climate change.
Asked then whether he “could conclude that these storms and the intensity have to do with climate change,” Biden responded, “All I know is that the intensity of the weather across the board has some impacts as a consequence of the warming of the planet and climate change.”
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this article.
