Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom want to blame climate change for the infernos that tore throughPacific Palisades and Altadena in January 2025.
These were acts of a vengeful, unpredictable climate. Monsters born of global warming that no human hand could have stayed. So they say.
It is a lie. A convenient, curated, political lie designed to shield the incompetent and the corrupt from the consequences of their own misgovernance.
Newsom has also blamed an arsonist for the Palisades Fire. Yes, the first fire, the Lachman Fire, was set last Jan. 1 by a human being — oneobsessed with climate change.
But there was nothing “unprecedented” about the Los Angeles fires. We have seen this movie many times before: the Woolsey Fire, the Kincade Fire, the Park Fire, and more.
The Santa Ana winds have scoured the state for as long as the Pacific has kissed the coast; they are as native to California as the oak trees.
To blame “climate change” for the predictable winds that whip through our passes is an insult to history and a dereliction of duty. We even knew exactly when the winds were coming.
So while climate and drought and arson influence fire risk, what turned a forecast wind event into a mass-casualty disaster wasn’t carbon dioxide. It was poor governance.
If you knew the winds were coming, why weren’t city and state resources pre-positioned? Why weren’t command centers established? Why wasn’t staffing maximized?
Why was the mayor of an American city on a diplomatic trip to West Africa, instead of handling all of the above?
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