{"id":363086,"date":"2025-01-23T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363086"},"modified":"2025-01-23T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:01:44","slug":"scapegoating-climate-to-hide-callous-government-malfeasance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363086","title":{"rendered":"Scapegoating climate to hide callous government malfeasance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Driessen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wildfires near Los Angeles have left Pacific Palisades looking like Dresden after the WWII fire-bombings. Over 12,000 homes, schools and businesses have been incinerated, dozens of people have died, at least 70,000 have been left homeless, and fires still rage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AccuWeather estimates that just two of the fires will destroy $135-150 billion<\/em><\/a> in property!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a doubly horrific tragedy, because most of the death and devastation could have been prevented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California has 33,000,000 acres of federal, state and private forestland \u2013 equivalent to Wisconsin. As the state\u2019s population expanded, forests and wildlife increasingly merged with human habitats<\/a>. And yet federal and state land managers \u2013 compelled by ideology, activists, legislators and judges \u2013 have steadfastly refused to permit timber cutting, tree thinning or brush removal, or take other actions that would reduce the likelihood of conflagrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many trees are so jammed together now that they\u2019re starved for space, water, nutrients and sunlight. Many are diseased. They are skinny matchsticks, primed to erupt in flames. Some 36,000,000 trees died<\/a> just in 2022, across just 8% of these forestlands. But even dead and diseased trees are rarely removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainy fall and winter months stimulate tree, brush and grass growth. Parched summers dry everything out. Extended dry periods leave all this fuel<\/a> ready to ignite for more months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightning, sparks from cars or power lines, campfires and arsonists set areas aflame. Dry Santa Ana winds (40-70 mph, with gusts of 120-150 mph<\/a>) whip fires into infernos. Depleted, defunded fire departments often arrive long after they could extinguish fires in their infancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conflagrations generate still more powerful winds that carry embers, branches, even small trees thousands of feet \u2013 often into communities that are ill-prepared to cope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This barely begins the litany of California government failures that help cause repeated fire calamities. However, state and local politicians adroitly avoid responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their most common excuse is manmade climate change<\/a>. They even have a new fear-inducing term: hydroclimate whiplash<\/a>! Fossil-fuel-driven climate change supposedly brought two exceptionally wet winters, spurring unprecedented plant growth \u2013 and then caused unprecedented arid conditions<\/a> and previously unheard-of Santa Ana winds that made these infernos unpredictable but inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling the massive, repeated government failures \u201cincompetence\u201d is too generous. Deliberate, callous, destructive malfeasance is more apt. Criminal may be appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governor Gavin Newsom<\/a>\u00a0wants a special session to discuss spending $25-50 million to \u201cTrump-proof\u201d state policies. He wants to use a new $10 billion \u201cclimate bond\u201d to reduce farm and ranch greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, improve \u201cequitable access to nature,\u201d build more parks in \u201cdisadvantaged communities,\u201d upgrade ports to handle\u00a0deepwater offshore wind<\/a>\u00a0projects, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California is still pouring billions into EV subsidies, its \u201cclean\u201d energy transition, and the $100 billion \u201cbullet train to nowhere.\u201d It\u2019s spending more billions supporting \u201csanctuary\u201d status for illegal immigrants, maintaining gender and DEI programs, and ministering to America\u2019s\u00a0largest number of homeless<\/a>\u00a0people \u2013 which will now include 70,000+ who\u2019ve lost everything to the 2025 wildfires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One wonders whether they\u2019ll treat these now-homeless taxpayers as well as they have illegal populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Legislated restrictions on how companies may conduct fire-risk assessments and what rates they can charge for homeowners insurance in high-fire-risk areas have caused insurers to leave<\/a> the state or stop issuing new policies. Hundreds of thousands of families are now uninsured, underinsured or dependent on the state\u2019s FAIR Plan, which has only $385 million<\/em> in reserves<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, California devoted only $2.6 billion to \u201cforest and wildfire resilience\u201d across all state-managed forestlands, including Topanga State Park, where the fires started, right next to what once was Pacific Palisades \u2013 versus $14.7 billion for EVs and \u201cclean renewable energy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With memories of the horrific 2018 Paradise (Camp) fire<\/a> still causing nightmares, Mayor Karen Bass<\/a> cut $17.6 million from the Los Angeles Fire Department budget, fired 100 firefighters who didn\u2019t get Covid vaccines, and was partying at an embassy reception in Ghana as the fires erupted<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LA Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley (salary: $654,000) has spent millions on DEI programs and hiring more women, gays and minorities. Deputy\/Diversity Chief<\/a> Kristine Larson (salary: $307,000) says victims want to see emergency responders that \u201clook like\u201d them, and if she isn\u2019t strong enough to carry your husband out of a fire, he \u201cgot himself in the wrong place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They then failed to keep extra firefighters and firetrucks<\/a> on duty as winds picked up just before the first forest fires were spotted \u2013 apparently to avoid paying overtime. That meant the LAFD couldn\u2019t get there before fires roared out of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhausted firefighters trying to save multi-million-dollar homes in Palisades ran out of water. A major reason was that LA Water and Power Department CEO Janisse Qui\u00f1ones<\/a> (salary: $750,000) had the 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir drained to repair cracks in its base. A full reservoir would have replenished huge storage tanks that feed and pressurize local fire hydrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qui\u00f1ones has said her \u201cnumber one\u201d priority is equity<\/a> and social justice. Does that explain why the reservoir was drained in February 2024; no contractor was hired until November 2024; and even then no workers, equipment or materials were in place for 24\/7 repairs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as callously incompetent, why was there no plan (or no action taken) to utilize fireboats, tugboats, barges and other vessels from Long Beach Harbor and the San Diego Navy Base? Many are equipped with water storage, pumps, hoses and nozzles. They could spray seawater directly on coastal homes or run hoses ashore to connect to fire hydrant systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some salt would remain in soils and kill some plants. However, the choice should be easy. Lose some prized vegetation to lingering salts \u2013 or have prized vegetation, homes, priceless heirlooms and artworks, and everything else incinerated by raging infernos. Homeowners never got to make that choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incineration of these forests and communities released far more greenhouse gases<\/a> than all the state\u2019s now-shuttered coal- and gas-fired power plants would have over many decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further complicating matters, the fires sent ash and pollutants into skies and left toxic chemicals behind \u2013 from plastics, paints, batteries, solvents and other materials in homes, buildings and vehicles. They\u2019ve contaminated waters and soils<\/a>, which could result in long cleanup and rebuilding delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governor Newsom says he wants to expedite rebuilding. But LA health officials say debris removal and reconstruction are prohibited until licensed officials have carefully examined sites for toxics<\/a> \u2013 dangerous or barely detectable levels? New building codes for fire resistance? Or homeowner demands for them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizens need to discuss all this at town hall meetings, before the next conflagration strikes \u2013 inevitably, if proper forest and water management and personnel hiring are not implemented immediately. Put simply, the woke idiots responsible for this rampant destruction and loss of life must be replaced with people who understand their Number One Job is protecting citizens from crime, fires and other natural disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Newsom also wants an investigation<\/a> into the loss of fire hydrant water pressure. Californians have good reason to suspect he\u2019s merely trying to find excuses and scapegoats, so that he and his favorite legislators can save their political hides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golden Staters need to revamp their political, bureaucratic, policy and woke systems. They need to rely less on government \u2013 and more on themselves, the way the Getty Villa<\/a> and several neighbors<\/a> did in Malibu, thereby saving homes, treasures and lives. Otherwise, these needless tragedies will be repeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wildfires near Los Angeles have left Pacific Palisades looking like Dresden after the WWII fire-bombings. Over 12,000 homes, schools and businesses have been incinerated, dozens of people have died, at least 70,000 have been left homeless, and fires still rage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":363087,"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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":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":[691818068,691818056,691832803,691824270,691831079,691832804,691832523,691820068],"class_list":["post-363086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-climate-change","tag-fire-risk-assessments","tag-governor-gavin-newsom","tag-los-angeles","tag-mayor-karen-bass","tag-santa-ana-winds","tag-wildfire","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1wse","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":414879,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414879","url_meta":{"origin":363086,"position":0},"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":"11\/27\/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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