{"id":274539,"date":"2023-08-19T20:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274539"},"modified":"2023-08-19T20:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:10:19","slug":"we-are-not-learning-bjorn-lomborg-says-politicians-hide-behind-climate-change-to-duck-responsibility-for-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274539","title":{"rendered":"We Are Not Learning\u2019: Bjorn Lomborg Says Politicians Hide Behind Climate Change to Duck \u2018Responsibility\u2019 For \u2018Failures\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"274545\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=274545\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0.jpeg?fit=802%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"802,353\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0.jpeg?fit=723%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0.jpeg?resize=723%2C319&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274545\" style=\"width:760px;height:335px\" width=\"723\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0.jpeg?w=802&amp;ssl=1 802w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0.jpeg?resize=300%2C132&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0.jpeg?resize=768%2C338&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0.jpeg?resize=800%2C353&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/08\/18\/we-are-not-learning-bjorn-lomborg-says-politicians-hide-behind-climate-change-to-duck-responsibility-for-failures\/\">Daily Caller<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"274540\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=274540\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-793.png?fit=528%2C50&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"528,50\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-793\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-793.png?fit=528%2C50&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-793.png?resize=723%2C68&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274540\" style=\"width:760px;height:72px\" width=\"723\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-793.png?w=528&amp;ssl=1 528w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-793.png?resize=300%2C28&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/author\/hchutch@gmail.com\">HAROLD HUTCHISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">REPORTER<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bjorn Lomborg said Friday that politicians were blaming climate change for disasters like the wildfires on Maui to duck \u201cresponsibility\u201d for \u201cfailures\u201d in addressing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii blamed climate change for the deadly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/08\/09\/maui-fire-destroys-lahaina\/\">wildfire<\/a>\u00a0that destroyed many buildings in the town of Lahaina,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/08\/14\/maui-wildfire-deadliest-us\/\">killing<\/a>\u00a0at least 96 people as of Monday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/15\/us\/hawaii-maui-lahaina-fire.html\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the New York Times. The West Maui Land Company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/08\/17\/hawaii-fires-maui-water-diversion\/\">accused<\/a>\u00a0M. Kaleo Manuel, an official with the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), of delaying a response to a request to use water to refill reservoirs used by the Maui Fire Department to fight the wildfire, Hawaii News Now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2023\/08\/15\/gunfight-without-bullets-firefighters-faced-down-blaze-with-dry-hydrants-no-communications\/\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/08\/17\/are-you-freaking-kidding-me-former-fema-head-blasts-hawaii-officials-focus-on-equity-prior-to-fire\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Are You Freaking Kidding Me?\u2019: Former FEMA Head Blasts Hawaii Officials\u2019 Focus On \u2018Equity\u2019 Prior To Fire)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rumble-com wp-block-embed-rumble-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Lomborg Says Politicians Hide Behind Climate Change To Duck &amp;apos;Responsibility&amp;apos; For &amp;apos;Failures&amp;apos;\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v36e7q4\/#?secret=kURstPIMMj\" data-secret=\"kURstPIMMj\" width=\"720\" height=\"406\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou maybe shouldn\u2019t have a lot of grasses that will just burn a lot. You should adopt better building codes, not what Governor Green did, namely put it on hold because he wants cheaper buildings and you shouldn\u2019t just have one exit road, you should have better firebreaks,\u201d Lomborg told \u201cAmerica Reports\u201d co-anchor John Roberts. \u201cAnd possibly the most important thing is, you should inform people. You should not have a guy that actually decides not to run the alarm because he worries that people might misunderstand it. Most people weren\u2019t informed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd this is the crucial bit when you talk about climate change: When everybody blames climate, which is a very, very small part of the whole puzzle, you take away responsibility from all these failures,\u201d Lomborg added. \u201cAnd that\u2019s, of course, what you really need to focus on if you are going to avoid the next fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Herman Andaya, the director of the Maui Emergency Management Agency,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/08\/17\/maui-crisis-manager-failed-sirens-resigns\/\">resigned<\/a>\u00a0Thursday after the agency came under fire for not activating emergency sirens to warn people of the fires. The state reportedly bogged down an effort to improve electric infrastructure that would have addressed overgrown non-native grass,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/wildfire-risk-maui-hawaiian-electric-7beed21e?mod=djemalertNEWS\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the Wall Street Journal, one of a series of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/08\/18\/hawaii-emergency-green-wildfires\/\">decisions<\/a>\u00a0that may have worsened the severity of the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are not learning as long as we just keep blaming global warming,\u201d Lomborg said. \u201cLook, global warming is a real problem, we should fix it, we should fix it smartly, but it\u2019s not the main part of this problem and we are dealing with it really badly and we are helping future people, who will be affected by future fires as well, really badly if we don\u2019t focus on the smart things to do. So, again, maybe you shouldn\u2019t have an alarm system that only sounds like a tsunami warning if you also want to warn people when it\u2019s fire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bjorn Lomborg said Friday that politicians were blaming climate change for disasters like the wildfires on Maui to duck \u201cresponsibility\u201d for \u201cfailures\u201d in addressing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":274547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818077,691818056,691821788,691821949,691818913],"class_list":{"0":"post-274539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-bjorn-lomborg","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-hawaii","11":"tag-maui-emergency-management-agency","12":"tag-wildfires","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Screenshot-2023-08-19-200752.png?fit=1093%2C490&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-19q3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":331585,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=331585","url_meta":{"origin":274539,"position":0},"title":"Thanks for Publishing the Truth, New York Post, Climate Activists Don\u2019t Care If People Die","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/05\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The New York Post published an article by noted researcher Bjorn Lomborg, Ph.D., in which he argues climate activists not only don\u2019t care about people\u2019s well-being, they, in fact, support policies that result in unnecessary deaths. 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