{"id":361575,"date":"2025-01-11T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T15:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=361575"},"modified":"2025-01-11T16:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T15:30:40","slug":"exploiting-californias-tragic-fires-for-climate-propaganda-is-just-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=361575","title":{"rendered":"Exploiting California\u2019s tragic fires for climate propaganda is just wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shameless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of Californians have been burned out of their homes.  The danger is not yet over.   It\u2019s hard to breathe.  People lie dead in the ashes of their American dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For people of good conscience, this is a time for empathy, prayer, and whatever aid is needed to keep survivors safe, help them rebuild, and improve government\u2019s ability to prevent and respond in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For climate kleptocrats and ideologues, every crisis is an opportunity to increase their wealth and power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate campaigners are \u201cweaponizing every weather event,\u201d is how CFACT\u2019s Marc Morano put it<\/a> on the radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bogus \u201cattribution\u201d has become the woke-climate campaigner\u2019s favorite weapon.  Whenever tragic weather strikes, the media parrots campaigners\u2019 claims that climate change makes extreme weather \u201cmore likely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much more likely?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the media was doing its job, reporters would vet these claims by following up with, \u201chow meaningful was the climate change impact on this event?\u201d  This would force campaigners to concede that the impact was minimal, or not present.  Particularly, if opposing analysis was fairly included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We posted an explanation by data prodigy Chris Martz at CFACT.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo a hammer,\u201d the saying goes, \u201ceverything looks like a nail.\u201d  To Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, everything looks like a pretext to expand the power of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders, predictably, jumped on X, attributed the fires to climate and demanded that \u201cDonald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is,\u201d i.e, submit to the UN climate regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Martz was having none of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHi there Colonel Sanders.\u201d Chris tweeted. \u201cDo you like facts? I hope you do, because you\u2019re about to be sacked with some.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look<\/a> at the epic sacking that ensued.  Chris laid out the hard, historical weather data with detailed support from the high holy peer-reviewed scientific literature on California, fire and climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sum up, the Santa Ana Winds blow hard every year.  Past fires have been almost universally attributed to human causes, not how you use energy. Fallen power lines are frequently to blame, along with other accidents, and arson \u2014 which is no accident at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This current round of fires became a blast furnace when the Santa Ana winds reached hurricane force at the same time the fires burned.  No amount of wind turbines, solar panels or electric vehicles could have saved the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better forest, water and emergency management might have minimized them, and certainly would have mitigated their impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pacific Palisades have burned before.  That is historically normal.  What is new is the billions of dollars of development that has occurred since the last time they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How meaningful would the impact of better, smarter government have been?  Very meaningful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pray for those whose lives and homes have been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lend them your helping hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take action to ensure California is better prepared next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Californians have been burned out of their homes.\u00a0 The danger is not yet over. \u00a0 It\u2019s hard to breathe.\u00a0 People lie dead in the ashes of their American dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":361577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[691818068,691832550,691832523,691820068],"class_list":["post-361575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-la-fires","tag-santa-ana-winds","tag-wildfire","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/00Screenshot-2025-01-11-162301.png?fit=1549%2C803&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1w3R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":423321,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423321","url_meta":{"origin":361575,"position":0},"title":"Are Green Energy Subsidies Driving California\u2019s Plan to Expropriate the Wealthy?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/26\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Soaring energy bills, a political crisis, and an insane plan to expropriate wealth creators who drive the Californian Economy.","rel":"","context":"In \"billionaire tax\"","block_context":{"text":"billionaire tax","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=billionaire-tax"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0Screenshot-2026-01-26-200506.png?fit=1200%2C854&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0Screenshot-2026-01-26-200506.png?fit=1200%2C854&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0Screenshot-2026-01-26-200506.png?fit=1200%2C854&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0Screenshot-2026-01-26-200506.png?fit=1200%2C854&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0Screenshot-2026-01-26-200506.png?fit=1200%2C854&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":404809,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=404809","url_meta":{"origin":361575,"position":1},"title":"California Dems Scramble To Boost Oil Production After Running Refiners Out Of Town","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/25\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Democratic California Gov. 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