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Letter: Climate change is mostly to blame for California fires

King Bass, 6, left, sits and watches the Holy Fire burn from on top of his parents’ car as his sister Princess, 5, rests her head on his shoulder Thursday night, Aug. 9, 2018 in Lake Elsinore, Calif. (AP Photo/Patrick Record)

08132018 CALIF FIRES — King Bass, 6, left, sits and watches the Holy Fire burn from on top of his parents’ car as his sister Princess, 5, rests her head on his shoulder Thursday night, Aug. 9, 2018 in Lake Elsinore, Calif. (AP Photo/Patrick Record)

President Donald Trump’s recent tweets about the California wildfires is way off the mark. One of his tweets was about California diverting water into the Pacific was somehow preventing firefighters from doing their job. This is a silly goose story.