{"id":361579,"date":"2025-01-11T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=361579"},"modified":"2025-01-11T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:03:53","slug":"the-los-angeles-fire-debacle-is-the-peak-of-the-virtue-signaling-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=361579","title":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles fire debacle is the peak of the virtue signaling era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Arson or nature disaster – burning fire flame on wooden house roof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Los Angeles Fires seem to symbolize the great achievements of collectivist governance. It took decades to reach these Black Belt levels of incompetence: to  weaponize the committees, neutralize the media, and to teach the people that fires are caused by hamburgers and stopped by solar panels.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently 150,000 people are still under evacuation orders in Los Angeles and some 10,000 buildings are estimated to have been destroyed. To twist the knife on the pain, some insurance companies have recently abandoned Californian clients due to a 1988 law called Proposition 103.  The State government regulates price rises in insurance. It\u2019s a form of price fixing.<\/a> It means insurance companies can\u2019t adjust their premiums to take the higher risks into account, so they do they only thing they can \u2014 stop offering insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is the irony that green activists have worked to stop fuel reduction burns.  @MarioNawfal names the Sierra Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Californian situation by Dennis Presiloski<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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In a form of Democrat maths \u2014 the LA mayor Karen Bass saved $18m from the fire department<\/a> budget but the state lost $150 billion in damage (<\/a>so far).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bluest people on the planet are going to flip vote red\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Adam Carolla points out that the areas that burnt were some of the wealthiest, most democrat-voting precincts in the country. \u201cIt\u2019s about 80% Democrat\u201d \u2014 who he predicts will flip red when they drown in regulations trying to rebuild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What he doesn\u2019t say is that these are often the most important donors who may abandon the party. It\u2019s not the size of the votes that matter but the financial clout and cachet of the famous and wealthy that the Democrats will lose. (Though there will be 10 million people in LA watching this debacle and they might not actually need to have their own house burn down to get the point.) *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people in the $20 million dollar mansions on the beach are going to be \u201cknee deep\u201d in regulations. The deep blue democrat fire victims are going to spend years trying to permit to rebuild their own homes and that will turn them into red voters. He names one couple that tried to get a permit to rebuild their home of 40 years on PCH (Pacific Coast Highway). In the end they gave up and moved. He says the point that got to Bill Mahar (the comedian who seems so much more conservative lately) was the three-year epic he went through to set up his solar panels on his house in Beverley Hills. \u201cHe was strangled by the regulations, the overreach.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s when he turned against the government\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are wealthy people who love their homes, he says. They love Malibu, they love the Palisades\u2026 there is going to be a whole bunch of rich people, and they want to build as fast as they can. From the time they go in and fill in the first form, til the time they get delivery of the first load of wood on their property will be three years. [These Australian wonders if they will rebuild with wood. How does anyone defend a wooden house against embers during the Santa Ana winds? \u2014 Jo] *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there are the extras:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You want a swimming pool\u2026 it has to double hulled in case it leaks into the water table. <\/em>Carson Daily had to build a swimming pool like a modern day oil tanker. It\u2019ll just cost $500,000 for a swimming pool.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s in a hotel room, evacuated from his home at the time he did this, and \u201clanguage warning\u201d, he doesn\u2019t hold back:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all voted for Gavin Newsom, and now you f**ing get what you get. Now that your house is on fire. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He doesn\u2019t think the coastal commission of California will even let people rebuild on the beach. \u201cThey are in the business of getting you to leave \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warning: his language is strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Accurate https:\/\/t.co\/aS7f9mw5o6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

His prediction sounds outlandishly pessimistic, but Elon says \u201cAccurate\u201d and  @StewMama71 agrees, saying: Only 25% of the houses burned in Malibu in 2018 Woolsey fire have been rebuilt. <\/em>UPDATE: The Democrats could change this in five minutes, by dropping most of the regulations. But will they?*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is the Oscar level Virtue Signalling:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bureaucrats in California were so concerned about breaking glass ceilings they seemingly forgot their first priority.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nothing quite sums up how far gone everything is, better than this \u2014 listen to the assistant fire chief who blames the man caught in a fire (that she can\u2019t carry) for being in the wrong place:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAm I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/BofTVr6dWP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Not only did the Assistant Chief of the LAFD say it \u2014 apparently other people edited that into a professional little promo clip. What were they all thinking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently of rainbows and not fire hydrants and fuel loads.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Los Angeles Fires seem to symbolize the great achievements of collectivist governance. It took decades to reach these Black Belt levels of incompetence: to\u00a0 weaponize the committees, neutralize the media, and to teach the people that fires are caused by hamburgers and stopped by solar panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":361589,"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":[691818056,691819400,691832573,691832574,691832575,691832572],"class_list":{"0":"post-361579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-democrats","10":"tag-evacuation-orders","11":"tag-fire-department-budget","12":"tag-karen-bass","13":"tag-los-angeles-fire","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0Fire-closeup.jpg?fit=2365%2C1774&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1w3V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":261932,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=261932","url_meta":{"origin":361579,"position":0},"title":"Bank of England\u2019s credibility and UK economy at risk from Net Zero radicalism","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"13\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Net Zero Watch has called on MPs to reject Megan Greene from joining the Bank of England\u2019s rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee and warned that her green activism risks undermining the credibility of the Bank\u2019s neutrality in setting interest rates.","rel":"","context":"In \"Bank of England\"","block_context":{"text":"Bank of England","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=bank-of-england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0net-zero_cities.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0net-zero_cities.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0net-zero_cities.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0net-zero_cities.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0net-zero_cities.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":414879,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414879","url_meta":{"origin":361579,"position":1},"title":"Adam Carolla and Joe Rogan Are Right, Government Is to Blame for the Severity of L.A.\u2019s Fires, Not Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"27\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, comedian Adam Carolla and host, Joe Rogan, pointed out that Gov. 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