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Follow the Science? 95% of California’s Wildfires Are Started by PEOPLE, Not Global Warming!

California, the bluest of blue states, is being blown apart by wildfires. You’ve seen the news and watched the footage; the devastation is almost unimaginable. Los Angeles is literally going up in smoke.

Gonna take quite a few “carbon offsets” to mitigate all that burning, eh?

It’s also created a vexing problem for Left Coast liberals, California politicians (again: liberals), and the mainstream media (again once more: liberals). After all, when a calamity strikes, someone’s gotta take the blame.

And in California, there just aren’t any Republicans around anymore: No one in the GOP is in a position of authority. California is a one-party state.

So who do they blame?

If only Inauguration Day had come a month earlier! Then, Gov. Newsom could’ve at least blamed Trump for dragging his feet. Maybe he could’ve even pulled a “Katrina” and blamed everything on the chief executive, washing his hands of the whole mess!

But with Biden in charge (at least, on paper) the Democrats don’t have anyone to point fingers at. And if no single human can be blamed, what do you do?

Answer: You blame Global Warming.

(Which, of course, allows you to ALSO blame Republicans, Trump, capitalism, and the free market — liberal boogeymen one and all.)

At breakneck speed, the mainstream media hopped aboard the Global Warming bandwagon. Here are just a few of the headlines:

Time Magazine: L.A. Fires Show the Reality of Living in a World with 1.5˚C of Warming

New York Times: ‘We’re in a New Era’: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Disasters

ABC News: This Is How Climate Change Contributes to the California Wildfires

LA Times: Intensifying Climate ‘Whiplash’ Set the Stage for Devastating California Fires

New York Times: Scientists Say Musk Wrongly Downplays Climate Role in L.A. Fires

Bloomberg: Climate Change Risks Cracking California’s Insurance Market Wide Open

Sacramento Bee: It Isn’t Lack of Water or DEI Making LA’s Wildfires Worse. Experts Say It’s Climate Change

Associated Press: Climate Change Contributed to a Week of Wild Weather That Upended Life in the US

The Guardian: How the Climate Crisis Fuels Devastating Wildfires: ‘We Have Tweaked Nature and Pissed It Off’

Washington Post: The Los Angeles Fires Won’t Affect Climate Denial. They Should.

Keep in mind, all of these headlines are just a few days old! The media is working overtime to gaslight Americans. (And I’m pretty sure gaslighting folks during a wildfire is a really bad idea.)

The irony is that the Democratic Party has long claimed to be voice of “science.” Unlike those unenlightened, knuckle-dragging Republicans, the liberals are the ones who fearlessly “follow the science,” bravely going wherever it leads.

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Inept ‘Fact Check’ by Science Feedback Shines Further Light on U.K. Met Office’s Junk and Fabricated Temperature Measurements

After a year of damaging revelations about the state of the Met Office’s temperature measuring network, the Green Blob-funded ‘fact-checker’ Science Feedback has sprung to the defense of the state-funded U.K. weather service. It has published a long ‘fact check’ seeking to exonerate practices that have recently come to light including the locating of stations with huge heat corrupted ‘uncertainties’ and the publication of invented data from 103 non-existent sites. Inept is a word that springs to mind. At one point, Science Feedback justifies the estimation of data at the non-existent stations by referring to the hastily changed Met Office explanation for station/location long-term averages. The original and now deleted Met Office webpage referenced station names and provided single location coordinates including one improbable siting next to the sea on Dover beach. This would appear to be a new low in the world of so-called fact-checking – designating copy as ‘misleading’ based on an explanation changed after the article was published.

The first Daily Sceptic article reporting on the existence of 103 non-existent stations can be read here. The second appeared last month here and detailed the unannounced web changes and the obvious cover-up intended to deflect criticism from the invented station data.

Under the verdict “misleading” Science Feedback claims that the average data going back 60 years for stations is not “fabricated” but estimated using “well-correlated related neighbouring stations”. This is said to be a scientific method that is published in peer-reviewed literature. The Met Office discloses it has “relatively few” stations with 30-year data from which long-term averages can be calculated. The distinction between estimated and fabricated is moot. A pundit calling the winner of a sports match before it has taken place is an estimation of the result, and the opinion is no less a fabrication or invention however distinguished the pundit and however well-regarded any peers signalling agreement might be.

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Lessons From Germany’s Economic Contraction

Germany’s once-envied efficient economy is in freefall, and the climate change cult and European Green Deal are directly to blame. State policies subsidizing EVs and other products, shutting down coal and nuclear plants, and mandating forced conversion to untested, unimplemented “renewables” resources for energy have decimated industrial efficiency. Industries and blue-collar jobs are fleeing Germany for polluting, profitable operations in China, India, and elsewhere abroad. Will the United States follow suit?

As natural gases skyrocket during a European cold snap, and Russian gas pipelines through Ukraine are shut down for the first time since 1991, Germany has transitioned from Europe’s economic darling to its leading economic anchor. Followed closely by France and the UK, similarly weighted by economically destructive climate fantasies that are crashing to Earth like ideological meteors, the latest blow to gas supplies compounds the crisis occasioned by the mysterious sabotage of Nord Stream 1 and 2.

The results of this disastrous state-controlled economic carbon dioxide experiment continue to be as evident as explosives in a controlled demolition. Germany terminated massive EV subsidies at the end of 2023; EV sales promptly fell 69%. Despite gushing economic promises of “high-paying jobs” in the renewables industry, Germany announces more layoffs almost daily. Chinese companies, unhindered by escalating energy and regulatory costs, are leading in EV and other manufacturing technologies while spewing more chemicals into the ecosystem than German manufacturing industries.

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Newsom, Woke Policies, and Nonsensical Climate Strategies Exacerbated the California Fire Disaster

The California wildfires, which have destroyed thousands of homes and forced tens of thousands to evacuate, were exacerbated by strong winds, increased population density, and Governor Gavin Newsom’s failures in managing forests and conducting controlled burns.

Claims about failing to fill reservoirs for hydrants are substantiated and result from two sources: infrastructure and demand issues, as well as mismanagement of water resources.

While there is no evidence that DEI initiatives hindered the response, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley has emphasized DEI as a priority and implied a focus on increasing diversity in hiring rather than hiring the best candidates.

Critics, including actor James Woods, argued that Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley’s emphasis on DEI in her leadership priorities detracts from the department’s ability to respond.

Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley has emphasized the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD).

In November 2022, alongside then-Mayor Eric Garcetti, she launched the department’s first-ever DEI Bureau, focusing on creating a safe and inclusive workplace.

Chief Crowley has stated that fostering a diverse workforce enhances the department’s ability to serve Los Angeles’s varied communities effectively.

She has expressed a commitment to promoting a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and equity within the entire organization.

Just weeks before the wildfires, Chief Crowley warned that budget cuts were hampering the fire department’s ability to respond to emergencies, including training, preparation, and large-scale incidents like the ongoing wildfires.

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What Started L.A.’s Firestorm? Hint: It’s Not ‘Climate Change.’

Firefighters say that L.A.’s hellacious firestorm started at 10:30 Tuesday morning in Topanga Canyon. This paradise is — was? — filled with bespoke homes and came with built-in privacy — a rare commodity. People have been uprooted, their family memories are in ashes, and they have to find a place to sleep tonight. Evacuated entertainment stars such as James Woods, Ben Affleck, Eugene Levy, and more likely haven’t had a chance to ask this secondary question: What started this fire? 

First, any number of things could have started the fire that turned into a conflagration that destroyed untold numbers of homes and scorched at least 3,000 acres — and counting — of prime Los Angeles area real estate. Someone could have flicked a cigarette butt out the window. Car exhaust could have sparked dry brush on the side of the road. Arsonists have been known to purposely set fires in Southern California. 

Or maybe it was the same thing that started fires in the past: homeless encampments.

In 2021, Topanga Canyon residents were so concerned with homeless encampments and fire danger that they ostensibly “banned” them. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted to ban homeless camps because cooking dinner or drugs outside in dry brush is a really dumb idea. 

Film producer and conservative Mike Cernovich predicts that before the embers are put out of the Palisades fire, a Hollywood “sh*tlib” will blame it not on homeless encampments or an arsonist but on climate change. 

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OF COURSE: Climate Change Warrior Kathy Hochul Has Spent More Than $400K on Private Jets

New York Governor Kathy Hochul cares very deeply about climate change. She recently signed a bill that aims to fine fossil fuel companies $75 billion for supposed damage to the climate.

In her personal life however, she follows a different set of rules, naturally.

Hochul has spent a small fortune on private jets. Doesn’t that kind of violate the whole ‘save the world from climate change’ thing?

The New York Post reported:

Gov. Hochul, NY’s biggest climate-change booster, has spent $415K on private jets: ‘It’s very wasteful’

She’s taking a tough line on fossil fuels — except the ones she’s spewing.

Gov. Hochul — who recently approved a controversial law that will force oil, natural-gas and coal companies to pony up $75 billion for carbon emissions allegedly contributing to global warming — has taken at least 30 flights aboard private jets since 2021, state Board of Elections records show.

The $415,000 tab was picked up by her campaign committee, records show.

“It’s very wasteful, especially for an elected official. There is no reason why any elected official in New York should be taking a private jet. Nearly everywhere in New York or upstate has a [commercial] airport that will take you anywhere in the country. New York is one of the most well-connected places on the planet,” said a local pilot experienced in private aviation.

Hochul flew with two private-airline companies, Zephyr Jets and Apollo Jets, in the last four years. It is unclear what the destinations were, but no flight cost less than $5,000 while her most expensive was trip was billed Jan. 17 for $38,594.00, records show.

Is anyone surprised?

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Lame Duck Joe Biden Tries to Ban Natural Gas Water Heaters on His Way Out the Door

With only days left in his disastrous presidency, Joe Biden is trying to make life more difficult for millions of Americans by banning most types of natural gas water heaters.

It’s just the latest example of Biden, or the people around him, trying to put roadblocks in the way of the incoming Trump administration. As the Gateway Pundit reported just yesterday, Biden is trying to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas development in key U.S. coastal waters.

Biden and his team know that energy development is key to what Trump wants to do once in office. None of this is happening by accident. Biden is surrounded by climate change activists. They are doing all of this on purpose and for obvious reasons.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Biden Bans Scores of Natural Gas Water Heaters, Driving Up Prices With Lame-Duck Regulations

The Biden administration finalized climate regulations to ban most natural gas-powered instantaneous water heaters—a move that critics say will drive up costs for consumers.

The Department of Energy—which formally published the rules the day after Christmas—didn’t issue a press release announcing the action, a departure from past appliance regulations. The published rules say the regulations are expected to help the climate by curbing carbon dioxide emissions.

Overall, under the regulations, roughly 40 percent of the new tankless water heaters available in the United States today will be taken off the market by 2029. Experts and industry officials say that will force consumers to purchase either more expensive or less efficient water heater models.

One industry analysis estimates that consumers will pay $450 more on average when purchasing new water heaters thanks to the regulations.

The liberal media did their duty by keeping this quiet.

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‘Green’ Scottish Ferry Emits Far More CO2 Than Old Diesel Ship

The CO2 emissions of a long-delayed and over-budget ‘green’ Scottish ferry will be far larger than that of the 31 year-old diesel ship it is set to replace. 

BBC News has more.

An emissions analysis by CalMac has calculated MV Glen Sannox will emit 10,391 equivalent tonnes of CO2 a year compared with 7,732 for MV Caledonian Isles.

The dual-fuel ferry has more car capacity but requires larger engines which also emit methane, a greenhouse gas with a far greater global warming effect than CO2.

Ferries procurement agency CMAL, which owns the ship, said the comparison was “inaccurate” as Glen Sannox is a larger vessel.

The size of Glen Sannox is a factor in its carbon footprint, but so too is the liquified natural gas (LNG) fuel which is less climate-friendly than previously claimed.

One expert on transport emissions told BBC News that if the “upstream” carbon cost of importing LNG from Qatar is included in the emissions calculation, it might be better to run the new ship on diesel.

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Insidious Bill “Genocide” Gates and his investor cohorts plan to CHOP DOWN billions of TREES and BURY THEM in order to fix “climate change”

  • Bill Gates has raised over $6 million in funding for a scheme to cut down and bury the world’s trees in an alleged attempt to combat global warming, a plan described as “Breakthrough Energy.”
  • The U.S. Forest Service is prepared to “thin out” 70 million acres of Western forests over the next decade, which critics argue will not benefit humans and will instead reduce the availability of wood for various purposes.
  • Critics claim that Gates’ plan is a cover-up for a sinister scheme to decrease the global population, arguing that the plan’s logic is illogical and harmful to human survival.
  • The climate change initiative is led by “psychopathic” Bill Gates, and critics argue that burying trees to combat CO2 levels is a nonsensical approach that will not improve air quality or reduce global warming.
  • Organizations like Stripe are providing funding for research in conjunction with this initiative, which is promoted by companies such as Kadama Systems, allegedly for carbon offsets. Critics argue that this plan is a form of “fake science” designed to mislead and harm.

The completely psychopathic Bill Gates has already raised more than $6 million in “seed funding” (pardon the pun) to literally chop down all the world’s trees and bury them in order to stop global warming. You cannot make this up, unless of course, you are Bill “Population Reduction” Gates.

It’s called “Breakthrough Energy,” because Bill Gates always names his missions the opposite of what they accomplish, just like with his vaccine terrorization schemes. Talk about FAKE science. Where does Bill Gates find these poser scientists willing to shill for this insane scheme?

Believe it or not, U.S. Forest Services is prepared to “thin out” 70 MILLION ACRES of Western forest, much of which is in California, over the next 10 years. Gates says this will reduce carbon dioxide in the air so we can all breathe better, which is the furthest thing from science, ever.

Not one single human being will benefit from this. No homes will be built. No wood burned to keep people warm in the freezing winter. This is all about destroying the planet, reducing the world’s population by several billion people, while injecting everyone with mRNA spike prions that help put everyone six feet underground soon, with all the trees.

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Kathy Hochul signs law that fines energy companies $75 billion for ‘climate change’

New Yorkers, beware the law of unintended consequences.

From an item at the New York Post comes the news that Kathy Hochul has just signed a new bill, “modeled after a federal law that holds polluters responsible for abandoned toxic-waste sites,” which establishes the New York Climate Superfund. This endowment will be funded by energy companies that deal in gas, oil, and coal, and the money will finance “resiliency projects,” like initiatives to shore up the coast and mitigate flooding—because obviously as every progressive and mainstream media consumer “knows,” energy that comes from “fossil fuels” cause “climate change.”

As of now, a number of companies operating in New York have been hit with $75 billion in fines, which are to be paid into the fund over the span of a decade. Per the NY Post:

The oil giant Saudi Aramco of Saudi Arabia could be slapped with the largest annual assessment of any company — $640 million a year — for emitting 31,269 million tons of greenhouse gases from 2000 to 2020.

Aramco — formally known as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. — is owned by the Saudi Royal family.

The state-owned Mexican oil firm Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, emitted 9,512 tons of CO2 and could face an $193 million assessment for generating 9,512 million tons of greenhouse gases.

Russia’s Lukoil could be assessed with a $100 million yearly fee for spewing 4,912 millions of CO2.

The 38 companies identified as carbon polluters include American petro giants such as Exxon and Chevron as well as Shell and BP in the UK, Total Energies IES in France, Petrobras in Brazil, BHP in Australia, Glencore in Switzerland, Equinor in Norway and ENI in Italy.

Another greedy, communistic money grab. What the left doesn’t get as they cheer on the theft is that once it’s normalized for the “ultra rich” it’s then normalized for the “rich”… and then it’s normalized for the upper middle class… then the lower middle class, and so on—it’s a war on wealth, using Saul Alinsky’s infamous line about “rub[bing] raw the sores of discontent” as a vehicle.

Did you know that when the federal income tax started it only applied to less than 1% of Americans? Now look where we are.

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