{"id":414879,"date":"2025-11-27T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414879"},"modified":"2025-12-27T03:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:38:58","slug":"adam-carolla-and-joe-rogan-are-right-government-is-to-blame-for-the-severity-of-l-a-s-fires-not-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414879","title":{"rendered":"Adam Carolla and Joe Rogan Are Right, Government Is to Blame for the Severity of L.A.\u2019s Fires, Not Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience<\/em> podcast, comedian Adam Carolla and host, Joe Rogan, pointed out that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wrongly blamed climate change for wildfires in California, when, in fact, wildfires are natural and the severity of the one in Los Angeles was largely due to flawed actions taken by the state and local governments. Rogan and Corolla are right, the natural climate of southern California has always been prone to wildfires, but responsible government action could have mitigated the horrific one that struck Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On episode 2,412<\/a> of The Joe Rogan Experience, Carolla, a Los Angeles resident, criticized Newsom and the state of California\u2019s response and excuses with regards to wildfires, particularly those from last winter in the Palisades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To excuse his own failures, Newsom will \u201cjust blame everything on climate change, which is insane,\u201d Carolla said. He went on to give examples of other locations where natural disasters are common and yet have been mitigated by human effort and civil engineering, like air conditioning making Nevada livable, and New Orleans\u2019 levees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo we did not prepare for the fires, we didn\u2019t clear the brush, we didn\u2019t fill the reservoirs,\u201d Carolla said. He also argued that, even if he granted Newsom\u2019s position on climate change causing the fires, \u201cnow do something!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rogan added that the real cause is not climate change, though, \u201cbecause L.A.\u2019s had the same climate forever, there\u2019s been fires that happened through L.A. where L.A. burns half to the ground [\u2026] It doesn\u2019t rain there ever, and it\u2019s been like that forever, that\u2019s why they film movies there. It\u2019s not climate change, you [explicative], it\u2019s poor preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carolla joked that it only rains after the fires so that the area can have mudslides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carolla and Rogan are both correct. Climate change was not responsible for the devastating fires. Natural factors and poor brush and water management were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As covered by Climate Realism<\/em> at the time of the fires, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, fire is a natural part of the southern California landscape. In the past, frequent low temperature wildfires would spread through the brush and small trees, burning them up and preventing the build-up of large amounts of fuel for major fires. Now, every wildfire is put out as soon as possible, and the brush is never cleared. It grows more densely, dries out during periods of drought, and can fuel larger, hotter fires once the right conditions line up. California exercises poor land and forest management, particularly under Newsom, during whose watch the state and U.S. Forest service has not met prescribed burn targets or forest thinning<\/a>. Carolla\u2019s complaint of \u201cdo something,\u201d hits home amid these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, it seems the podcast struck a nerve with Newsom\u2019s office. The spokesperson<\/a> for Newsom pushed back, and claimed that extreme winds and dry terrain from climate change aided the fire\u2019s spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it is true that those conditions made fires worse, it is not true that they are caused by climate change. High, dry winds are so common to Los Angeles that they even have a name, the Santa Ana winds,<\/a> which are natural, well documented, and driven by pressure systems over the Great Basin. They have not changed amid the modest warming of the past century. The dry conditions referenced are also not unusual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has changed is the huge growth in population in southern California. More people living in the Los Angeles area means more people are impacted by fires when they occur. It has also set up a situation where arson is more common. This was the case in the fires that preceded and ended up leading to the Palisades fires; a 29-year-old man has been indicted<\/a> for maliciously setting the fire. Climate change didn\u2019t do that, human evil did. And climate change didn\u2019t cause the fire to flare-up again; state government did by interfering with the Fire Department\u2019s efforts to ensure the fire that was still smoldering on state land was completely extinguished. It\u2019s all on tape!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is true and unusual is the fact that despite having nearly full reservoirs<\/a> just a month before the fires started, the Santa Ynez reservoir<\/a> in the Palisades was offline and empty in January. A large amount of snowpack water in California was wasted because it was allowed to flow into the Pacific. Thus, when the fires started, hydrants ran dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California has an infrastructure and water management problem, not a climate change problem. Hence, Rogan and Carolla are right, it is a government problem \u2013 more particularly, in this instance, a Gov. Newsom problem. The public is fortunate to have popular podcasters like Rogan promoting climate realism, rather than toeing the line for government failures and its use of climate change as a scapegoat for its poor management decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, comedian Adam Carolla and host, Joe Rogan, pointed out that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wrongly blamed climate change for wildfires in California, when, in fact, wildfires are natural and the severity of the one in Los Angeles was largely due to flawed actions taken by the state and local governments. Rogan and Corolla are right, the natural climate of southern California has always been prone to wildfires, but responsible government action could have mitigated the horrific one that struck Los 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