{"id":288924,"date":"2023-11-27T18:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288924"},"modified":"2023-11-27T18:45:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:45:33","slug":"climate-expert-michael-mann-blatantly-misinformed-public-about-mauis-lahaina-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288924","title":{"rendered":"\u201cClimate expert\u201d Michael Mann blatantly misinformed public about Maui\u2019s Lahaina fire."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"511\" data-attachment-id=\"288927\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=288927\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?fit=2410%2C1705&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2410,1705\" 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=\"0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?fit=723%2C511&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?resize=723%2C511&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-288927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?resize=1024%2C724&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?resize=768%2C543&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1087&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1449&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?resize=1200%2C849&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/Jim Steele\">Jim Steele<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just one day after the tragic Lahaina fire, Michael Mann fearmongered a tweet, \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Maui?src=hashtag_click\">#Maui<\/a> is a \u201ccompound\u201dclimate catastrophe.\u201d So the far-left socialist news organization, DemocracyNow, eagerly interviewed Michael Mann to hype that a climate crisis drove the fire\u2019s devastation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mann obliged, suggesting the high winds, which are not uncommon in Lahaina, \u201cinteracted with epic drought, higher pressure, hotter temperatures, less rainfall,\u201d But the so-called expert was demonstrably lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lahaina\u2019s temperature was <strong>normal and there was no epic drought<\/strong>. Mann failed to mention Maui experiences seasonal droughts most years, as its warm climate alternates between a wet season and a dry season. Maui\u2019s <strong>2023 wet season totals were mostly 90 to 120% of average.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maui\u2019s <strong>dry season lasts April\u2013October,<\/strong> creating high fire risk each summer. However, by <strong>May 2023, there was no drought anywhere on Maui.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tup2LZOCmL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/Drought.gov<\/a> wrote, \u201cdue to late wet season rainfall, <strong>significant wildfire risk is expected to develop later than the normal late-July to early-August time frame.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the US Drought Monitor data shows by August 8th (highlighted by blue rectangles) there were no areas in Maui experiencing extreme or exceptional drought, never mind Mann\u2019s dishonest claim of an epic drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet Mann persisted in his climate crisis fearmongering stating, \u201cHuge amount of fuel in form of dry materials impacted by climate change and the crisis.\u201d Again Mann failed to inform anyone that the fire\u2019s fuel was mostly dead invasive grasses and shrubs on abandoned plantations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire weather experts (Mann is not one) categorize dead grasses and shrubs as<strong> 1-hour and 10-hour fuels, meaning they become highly flammable in less than a day of dry weather<\/strong>, weather that always occurs between April and October dry season. Furthermore, located on the leeward slopes, Lahaina is naturally one of the driest areas in Maui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mann knows damn well a single day of dry weather tells you diddly squat about a changing climate. Yet Mann and DemocracyNow hid all the important weather facts to manipulate you with a false narrative that a climate crisis causes more fires, concluding \u201cDefining crisis of our time is the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Steele Just one day after the tragic Lahaina fire, Michael Mann fearmongered a tweet, \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing in #Maui is a \u201ccompound\u201dclimate catastrophe.\u201d So the far-left socialist news organization, DemocracyNow, eagerly interviewed Michael Mann to hype that a climate crisis drove the fire\u2019s devastation. Mann obliged, suggesting the high winds, which are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":288927,"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":"Just one day after the tragic Lahaina fire, Michael Mann fearmongered a tweet, \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing in #Maui is a \u201ccompound\u201dclimate catastrophe.\u201d So the far-left socialist news organization, DemocracyNow, eagerly interviewed Michael Mann to hype that a clim","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"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":[691819510,691818102,691824809,691824808,691818215],"class_list":{"0":"post-288924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-catastrophe","9":"tag-climate-crisis","10":"tag-democracynow","11":"tag-lahaina-fire","12":"tag-michael-mann","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_jj-rIb0AAqiqI.jpeg?fit=2410%2C1705&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1da4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":274520,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274520","url_meta":{"origin":288924,"position":0},"title":"Undeniable Proof that Alarmist Climate Scientist Michael Mann is Misinforming the Public About a Climate Crisis!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/19\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently the ambulance-chasing commentator for a DemocracyNow video highlighted the tragic Lahaina fire by opening with \u201c100 deaths and likely far more and linked to the climate crisis\u201d suggesting the fire was was due to climate change drought.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate crisis\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate crisis","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-crisis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0mann-2_1170x880_acf_cropped.jpg?fit=1170%2C880&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0mann-2_1170x880_acf_cropped.jpg?fit=1170%2C880&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0mann-2_1170x880_acf_cropped.jpg?fit=1170%2C880&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0mann-2_1170x880_acf_cropped.jpg?fit=1170%2C880&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0mann-2_1170x880_acf_cropped.jpg?fit=1170%2C880&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":272977,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272977","url_meta":{"origin":288924,"position":1},"title":"Hawaiian Fires: Fueled by Invasive Grasses, a Wet Spring and Human Ignition Sources","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Maui fire would have devastated Lahaina in a colder or warmer climate. 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