WASHINGTON (AP) — A top adviser to President Joe Biden says the deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area are the latest sign of the growing threat posed by climate change — one that President-elect Donald Trump will have to take more seriously than he did in his first term. John Podesta, Biden’s senior international climate adviser, said in an Associated Press interview that the ongoing disaster in California shows, again, that “you have to take the science seriously. You have to take the threat seriously.” Trump, who has vowed to undo many climate policies pushed by Biden, claimed this week that he could do a better job managing the crisis, spewing falsehoods and casting blame on California’s Democratic governor.
