Jerry Brown warned that President Trump has just made a “colossal mistake” in gutting the federal government’s effort to combat climate change, which will ignite a response Trump is unprepared to handle. “It defies science itself,” Brown said in a call to The Times shortly after Trump signed an executive order that aims to bring an abrupt halt to the United States' leadership on global warming. President Trump’s outrageous move will galvanize the contrary force. “We are not fully meeting the challenge of climate change yet,” he said. We have plenty of fuel to build this movement.”“This is real," Brown said of the threat created by climate change.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 28, 2017 20:07 UTC