‘We can’t ignore reality’: Colorado fires highlight urgency of US climate legislation

Build Back Better bill hangs in balance as Biden takes his sixth tour of a climate disaster since taking office

Joe Biden ended his tour of neighborhoods devastated by Colorado's most destructive blaze by emphasizing the link between America's escalating wildfires and the global climate crisis, saying that the US can no longer ignore the reality" of weather conditions that have supercharged" blazes.

Biden's trip to Boulder county on Friday marked his sixth climate disaster tour since taking office a year ago, underscoring the growing threat of global heating in the US and the need for radical action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.