L A Times blames state’s fires & blackouts on nebulous “climate change” – hides Democrats huge failures

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Right on cue the L. A. Times attempts to hide the incredible failures of the Democratic Party’s long standing energy and environmental policies in Sacramento that have led to the states wildfire debacle and energy blackouts and instead falsely blames these huge problems on vague “climate change” propaganda assertions that are unsupported by scientific data.

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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal exposed the monumentally misguided priorities of the state’s Democratic Party in wasting tens of billions of dollars on politically driven climate change propaganda schemes that have led to California’s energy and wildfire debacle.

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The state has failed to deal with the real problems that have to be addressed that are desperately needed to undo this Democrat driven politically created catastrophe.



As usual the Times editorial makes no mention of the comprehensive analysis done by California’s Legislative Analyst Office last year which clearly laid out the long standing failures of policy by the state that have led to the present debacle.

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detailed summary of this comprehensive report was provided in a prior WUWT article noted below.

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The state’s report lays clear blame for California’s wildfire debacle on long standing failures by numerous agencies for failing to take necessary actions to deal with the significant deterioration of forest health.

Representative of these failures and symbolizing the conditions in many other areas were the huge reductions in properly clearing excessive tree crowded forest areas with these failures extending over many decades. These neglected actions were needed to preserve and maintain long-term forest health. These failures are portrayed in the reports graph shown below.

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The report notes these same deleterious conditions occurred in other forest management areas including failures to clear excessive undergrowth, remove dead and diseased trees, use prescribed burns effectively, etc.

The significant increase in numbers and severity of wildfires over the last several decades directly follow these patterns of failed actions as addressed above with these outcomes shown in the report graph presented below.

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The Times editorial assertion that “climate change” is responsible for the state’s wildfire debacle is unsupported by the comprehensive and detailed analysis contained in the state’s report on California’s extensive forest management failures.

As addressed in another article at WUWT even for the state to begin to take small actions earlier this year to address the long standing and huge backlog of forest problems Gov. Newsom had to declare a state of emergency so that environmental activists would not delay for years or completely preclude these small steps from going forward.

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Environmental activists have used California’s excessive number of environmental laws and regulations to preclude, delay or make too expensive actions needed to maintain and preserve forest health thus necessitating Gov. Newsom’s declaration of a state of emergency.

The Times editorial does not address the scientific evidence clearly indicating that the long existing drought behavior of the American west is driven by natural climate behavior versus some nebulous propaganda hyped claim of “climate change”.

An extensive study published in ScienceDirect addressed the North American drought history going back to year 800 using tree ring data. The study noted the following regarding the long term climate behavior of drought and precipitation in the West:

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The sad truth right now is that California cannot afford to do anything about it. They waste so much of their budget on the socialist dream that they would have to cut millions off from the government teat to address the existential threat of wildfires destroying the property and homes of millions of their citizens.

But, they’ve got their perpetual Democrat majority there, so the poor, abused citizens of California (they aren’t all Democrats) can look forward for their situation to only get worse. MUCH worse.

CA reaps what it sews-let the state burn. to bad the dumbasses in the house will not go with it.

@MOS # 8541: My mother-in-law is from California and still has some relatives there. They are conservative and I have met others from California that are conservative. They don’t deserve what is happening to a beautiful state, but they have no voice in the matter. My wife’s cousin, who lives in Grass Valley, has said they will sell out and move to Texas once her mother passes away. This is the fate of California; all that holds people that actually care to the state are a few tenuous commitments and they are leaving in droves.

Many liberal policies contribute to this season’s wildfires.
Here’s three recent headlines and 1st sentences:

1. Fire at a homeless encampment sparked Bel-Air blaze that …
The fire, was sparked by a cooking fire at a homeless encampment near where Sepulveda Boulevard crosses under …

2. Homeless encampment causes fire, traffic jam on Highway 50 in …Sacramento
The encampment that touched off the fire was near Redding Avenue and Folsom.

3. Officials: Southern California brush fire caused by homeless …
A brush fire north of San Diego that prompted a handful of homeowners to evacuate over the weekend was sparked by a suspected homeless encampment, fire officials said Tuesday. Oceanside …

Yeah, what part of “bleeding heart” liberal policy is actually good for anyone if you look past the initial nice sound of it – to the filthy, expensive and even fatal consequences of it?