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  • 2020-09-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Biden Promise 'Fewer Fires, Floods, and Hurricanes' If Elected? (en)
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  • In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, and in the wake of record-breaking wildfires that burned on the West Coast, the issue of climate change remained a hot topic for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Biden was highly critical of what he termed U.S. President Donald Trump's climate denialism when he spoke on the issue during a public address at the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington on Sept. 14, 2020. In the headline of its report on Biden's speech, pro-Trump political commentary website PJ Media claimed that the former vice president had promised fewer fires, floods, and hurricanes if he wins the election. Though Biden did promise he would solve the climate crisis if elected in November, he did not literally promise fewer catastrophic events. Rather, the presidential hopeful called his Republican opponent U.S. President Donald Trump a climate arsonist and climate denier who, if reelected, would impose political strategies that would worsen the effects of catastrophic climate change-related events: In the speech, Biden claimed his administration would lessen the effects of what he called the undeniable acceleration of the punishing realities of climate change on our planet and our people. He referred to Trump directly in the following excerpts (a full transcript is available here): During his 25-minute speech, Biden acknowledged the devastating wildfires in California, Oregon, and Washington, made reference to the hurricanes and tropical storms that made landfall in the Southeastern U.S. in September, and made a nod to the floods and droughts that swept across parts of the Midwest in 2019 and 2020. His full remarks can be watched below: https://www.c-span.org/video/?475755-1/joe-biden-speaks-climate-change-california-wildfires (en)
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