(CNN) You could reasonably look at an incredible and devastating year of Western forest fires and worry about the effects of climate change on what's causing them.

President Donald Trump has taken a look at those wildfires and become worried there's not enough water to put them out. Even though that does not appear to be the case. At all.

And that's classic Trump. If the news points toward the need for a national conversation about climate change, he'll make it about how much water firefighters have in California.

That's a very different thing to discuss than wildfires fueled by dry conditions and hot temperatures, a symptom of what's described in the report published in the American Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which CNN's Euan McKirdy wrote about under the headline, " Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached, report warns ."

On the water question, President Trump presumably could pick up the phone and call the authorities to ask them, but in this case he decided instead to score some political points against California Gov. Jerry Brown.