“Climate change is a reality,” Joe Biden said yesterday, Thursday, during a White House meeting devoted to addressing runaway fires raging in Los Angeles.

“We can deal with it if we are astute,” added the outgoing Democratic president, who will cede his seat on Jan. 20 to his Republican-elected successor Donald Trump, a known climate change skeptic.

President Biden called the fires that have continued to sweep through Los Angeles, the second-largest US metropolis, “the most destructive” in the history of the state of California, promising federal resources to bring them under control.

“These are the most widespread and most destructive wildfires in California’s history,” Biden insisted during a meeting with concerned officials in the presidency on the fires, the main ones of which remained completely out of control yesterday.

Biden noted that he would seek help from the federal Congress and felt that members of the U.S. Parliament should mobilize in turn to contribute to the effort to control the situation.