You know, because wildfires are such a new phenomenon.
Via Politico:
The Republican Party is “in denial” about climate change, California Gov. Jerry Brown said on Sunday, suggesting the wildfires in his state were related to global warming.
“As we send billions and billions of tons of heat-trapping gases, we get heat and we get fires and we get what we’re seeing,” the Democratic governor said on ABC’s “This Week.” Major wildfires in the San Diego area, due in part to extreme drought, forced thousands of residents in the area to evacuate.
“Humanity is on a collision course with nature, and we’re just going to have to adapt to it the best we can,” he added.
The governor also took a swipe at Republicans for denying climate change, which he said was likely to blame for the increase in wildfires. “It is true that there’s virtually no Republican who accepts the science that virtually is unanimous,” Brown said. “There is no scientific question. There’s just political denial for various reasons best known to those people in denial. But whatever the thoughts of the Republicans, we in California are on the front lines.”