Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has pledged that he’ll rejoin the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, if elected to power in the November 3 election, PTI reported. Speaking from Delaware on Monday, he described President Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” as the president visited fire-ravaged California on a third day of a reelection campaign swing.

“While he (President Donald Trump) turned against our allies, I’ll bring us back into the Paris Agreement,” Biden said, PTI reported. “I will put us back in the business of leading the world on climate change and I will challenge every other country to up the ante on climate commitments.”

Signed on December 12, 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement aims to strengthen the global response to climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5° Celsius.

“Where he reverses the Obama-Biden fuel efficiency standards, he picks big oil. He picks in big oil companies over American workers, even when the automobile industry agreed,” the former vice president said on Monday.

As he spoke on the issue of climate change, Trump visited California that is ravaged by deadly wildfires. At the briefing in capital Sacramento, he suggested that global warming will reverse itself and dismissed climate change as a cause of ferocious fires engulfing swaths of the US West, AFP reported.

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“It will start getting cooler. You just watch,” Trump said, AFP reported.

“I wish science agreed with you,” responded Wade Crowfoot, the head of the California Natural Resources Agency, to which Trump replied: “I don’t think science knows, actually.”

Biden described Trump as a “climate arsonist” whose reelection would be catastrophic for the environment.

“If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze?” Biden said.

“We need a president who respects science, who understands that the damage from climate change is already here,” he added.