To the Editor:Re “Spurred by Fires, Trump and Biden Clash on Climate” (front page, Sept. 15):You refer to President Trump as a president “who has long scorned climate change as a hoax.” But the reality is more sinister: Much as we’ve recently learned about Mr. Trump’s views on the coronavirus, he has been well aware of the reality of climate change. How do we know? Apparently, he has so little respect for his own supporters that he just assumes they are too unintelligent to recognize what he himself knows to be “scientifically irrefutable.”Jeffrey BennettBoulder, Colo. The writer is the author of “A Global Warming Primer.”To the Editor:Re “Trump, a Bold Climate Denier, Confronts a Charred California” (front page, Sept. 14):President Trump blames California and other Western states for the fires because “they don’t listen to us” regarding forest management. A glance at the map shows that most of the acreage burned involves federal property managed by the Agriculture Department.

Source: New York Times September 15, 2020 17:15 UTC