{"id":377479,"date":"2025-05-07T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=377479"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:24:52","slug":"los-angeles-slaps-climate-alarmists-with-budget-reality-cue-the-outrage-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=377479","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Slaps Climate Alarmists with Budget Reality \u2014 Cue the Outrage Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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LA to cut climate office?<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It finally happened. In a world where cities trip over themselves to virtue-signal their carbon neutrality pledges and heat czar appointments, Los Angeles\u2014yes, that<\/em> Los Angeles\u2014just committed what the climate faithful might call a mortal sin: budget cuts to the climate bureaucracy. The horror!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Karen Bass\u2019 proposed budget has the audacity to cut funding<\/em> for the city\u2019s Climate Emergency Mobilization Office. The office\u2019s apparent mission? Mobilizing against an \u201cemergency\u201d so dire, it needed its own bureaucratic silo and, naturally, a \u201cchief heat officer.\u201d That\u2019s not satire. That was a real job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now? Eight positions\u2014poof\u2014gone. Including the top-tier post that kept a watchful eye on the sun for its inequitable rays. The backlash has been predictably unhinged, culminating in this gem of a lament:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNot only did we just go through the worst fires we\u2019ve seen in a long time, but all the environmental justice organizations that are trying to fight climate change consistently in Los Angeles now just got told that this is not as important as the other things we have to pay for.\u201d

https:\/\/laist.com\/brief\/news\/climate-environment\/la-mayor-karen-bass-proposed-budget-landmark-climate-action-office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s unpack that. They\u00a0just<\/em>\u00a0went through devastating wildfires\u2014and somehow the takeaway is that more money should go to meetings, memos, and public engagement sessions about carbon footprints? No mention, of course, of actually funding more fire crews, equipment, or the management of overgrown fuel loads. Heaven, forbid we invest in real firefighting\u2014something that might tangibly prevent homes from burning\u2014instead of subsidizing professional worrywarts whose primary tool is a Google Slides deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be clear, this wasn\u2019t just any office. It was a \u201clandmark\u201d<\/strong> institution, we\u2019re told\u2014because nothing says landmark like a freshly invented bureaucracy built around ideological panic. LAist, ever the reliable bullhorn of climate orthodoxy, wrung its hands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe proposed Los Angeles budget cuts could eliminate the city\u2019s first chief heat officer, who focuses on the effects of heat in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s right. The office didn\u2019t just talk about heat\u2014it focused<\/em> on it. Presumably with intense furrowed brows, graphs, and lots of community listening sessions about \u201clived heat experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the timing? Divine comedy. The article notes these layoffs come despite LA recently experiencing \u201cthe worst fires we\u2019ve seen in a long time.\u201d Never mind that wildfire trends in California\u2014when viewed over decades\u2014don\u2019t support the alarmist claims. But nuance doesn\u2019t sell panic, and it certainly doesn\u2019t fund departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ultimate tragedy, according to advocates, is that cutting these positions means LA might not hit its aspirational goals\u2014like becoming carbon-neutral in all buildings. Because there\u2019s nothing more realistic than retrofitting every structure in a sprawling metropolis based on computer models with confidence intervals wide enough to drive a diesel truck through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The critics are not just disappointed\u2014they\u2019re offended<\/em>. LAist summarized their mood:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis is devastating to the movement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/laist.com\/brief\/news\/climate-environment\/la-mayor-karen-bass-proposed-budget-landmark-climate-action-office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cmovement,\u201d of course, refers not to any quantifiable success in reducing temperatures (spoiler: there hasn\u2019t been any), but rather to the steady growth of bureaucratic fiefdoms funded by taxpayer dollars under the guise of climate salvation. When those funds are threatened, we\u2019re treated to sanctimonious cries of \u201cinjustice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s the core irony here: A city whose leadership talks endlessly about \u201csustainability\u201d suddenly discovers that, economically speaking, its own policies are unsustainable<\/em>. When ideology meets insolvency, something\u2019s gotta give. And for once, it\u2019s not the taxpayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there\u2019s one silver lining, it\u2019s this: Maybe, just maybe, some of that reclaimed funding will be redirected toward real firefighting capacity\u2014boots on the ground, engines, training, forest management\u2014the kind of thing that actually saves lives when the hills inevitably ignite. Because unlike \u201cclimate equity frameworks,\u201d fire doesn\u2019t wait for a task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heat officer may be out of a job. But if LA\u2019s budget office keeps trimming the fat, it might just bring down the fever of institutionalized climate hysteria too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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