Blaming ‘Climate Change’ For L.A. Fires Only Makes Newsom Look Criminally Incompetent
I & I Editorial Board
January 13, 2025
“All these things are connected. This is a challenging time. But we’re up to this challenge.”
That was California Gov. Gavin Newsom back in 2020 when he was busy blaming “climate change” for the wildfires that erupted that year. “I quite literally have no patience for climate change deniers,” he said.
Four years later, Newsom is again blaming “climate change” for the fires ravaging Los Angeles.
But wait. If climate change really is to blame, why was California so obviously, so woefully, so inexcusably unprepared?
Someone needs to ask Newsom why the state didn’t spend the last four years aggressively clearing out underbrush to minimize the chances of a catastrophic wildfire. Why didn’t it carve out large and effective buffer zones to keep fires from reaching populated areas? Why wasn’t there a Marshall Plan-scale effort to build reservoirs so firefighters could get water from hydrants?
It’s not as though the state didn’t have plenty of warning. For decades, environmentalists have been screaming about how “climate change” was going to make wildfires more frequent, more all-consuming, and more deadly.
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