In the hands of Democratic politicians, climate change is like systemic racism in the sky: You can’t see it, but it’s everywhere and it’s deadly.
As many WUWT readers know, I’m right in the middle of the wildfires here in Northern California. While it has affected me with power, Internet, and other service outages, plus chocking smoke, I’m OK.
But I’ve had friends dramatically and permanently affected by it. The left wants to blame climate change, and in fact, California Governor Newsom came to Oroville yesterday, unannounced to address the issue. He didn’t even notify local news media, instead bringing Sacramento news media in tow, which caused a bit of a tizzy, and was quite a slap in the face.
Nonetheless, we expected him to lead, we expected him to provide words of comfort to people affected who lost everything, we expected him to praise our first-responders for the heroic work they have done, instead, he browbeat us with a lecture on how it is all “caused by climate change.”
This didn’t sit well with a lot of people, and signs like this appeared as he left the press conference site in the burned out area.
I’ll address Newsom’s incredible climate gaffe later in another post.
But, the gaffe was so big, it reached Tucker Carlson on Fox News, and our local State Assemblyman James Gallagher, was invited on the show. Tucker ripped the “climate crisis” a new one, and Gallagher told it like it was.
Click to watch:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6190083549001?playlist_id=5198073478001#sp=show-clips
If you want to watch Newsom’s press conference, it was posted by TV station KCRA here:
ADDED:
WUWT Contributor Eric Worrall was writing a post while I was writing this one, I’ve combined the effort, he notes:
Climate change in my opinion is once again being used as a convenient political prop to deflect blame for years of failed forestry management policies.
‘Ideological BS’: Amid ashes, governor fires away on climate change
By DON THOMPSON
September 12, 2020 — 1.31pmSacramento: California Governor Gavin Newsom has offered some of his most impassioned comments on climate change, denouncing the “ideological BS” of those who deny the danger and vowing to accelerate the state’s already ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gases.
Newsom spoke against a backdrop of ghost-like trees and ground covered in snow-like grey ash left by the deadliest of the record-breaking fires that have charred huge swathes of California in recent weeks.
“The data is self-evident, the experience that we have in the state of California just underscoring the reality of the ravages of climate change,” he said. “Mother Nature is physics, biology and chemistry. She bats last and she bats 1000. That’s the reality we’re facing, the smash mouth reality — this perfect storm. The debate is over around climate change.”
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Republican state Senator Jim Nielsen and local councillor James Gallagher countered that the cause of recent devastating wildfires and electricity blackouts was “decades of bad policy enacted by Democrats, not climate change.”
“The excuse of climate change cannot be used to deflect from the fundamental failure to address the fuels build-up in our forests that are the cause of these devastating fires,” they said in a statement. “These same misguided policy decisions have led to rolling blackouts and an energy grid that is falling apart.”
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/ideological-bs-amid-ashes-governor-fires-away-on-climate-change-20200912-p55uzd.html
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Climate change made him do it.
If you want an NFL player to stand, wait for the judge to say, “The defendant shall rise.”
obviously climate change make people arsons….and that’s why they are arresting so many people for starting the fires
…one of them was a BLM rioter
Apparently Facebook has started removing any post that implies that BLM or Antifa are responsible for any of the fires.
Oh, I see how Newsom’s brain crawls along: Ignore the evidence or arson, because no one would do that, right?
Okay, sure. Whatever he’s smoking must be REALLY good! ~~)
Newsom is such a big liar. California throughout it’s history has been known for its extremes in flooding, drought and wild fires, especially. Throw in seismic activity and that state faces some crisis frequently.
Climate change occurred in California in 2020. Not in 2019. And not in Europe.
And not under 8 years of Obama.
Washington’s guv Inslee must be reading from Newsom’s teleprompter.
I feel the pain for which Anthony expresses here. And yes Inslee is a foolish tool along with those who keep him in Olympia. I have two ranches in WA. One above the Columbia south of Kettle Falls had a fire (arson) a few years ago and now the Cold Spring fire (arson) east of the Okanogan River we watched Sunday night build a wall a flame 40 mile long with a few hours. Having lived in the mountain states for my entire life (68 yrs) I observed that these fires have become a political tool to destroy the rural communities will to live in wide open spaces. Akin to agenda 21 -30- whatever. And as others attest, it is pure control methodology. Fear mongering is the lefty message and look at how the the populous got in line with covid fraud. Ignorance prevails and the cabal dictates.
be safe, not so long since aus was on fire, so we DO feel for what youre going through
and you Anthony. and all in the zones
read about that poor young lad who died with his dog trying to shelter
heartbreaking.
“Washington’s guv Inslee must be reading from Newsom’s teleprompter.”
Inslee has been beating that dead horse since before Newsome was elected.
I’m beginning to think someone wants to smoke WUWT out! Twice in 2 years!
In the EU it is impossible to comprehend such a disaster, disastrous politicians here being exactly the same, though.
Could the Governor declare an emergency, is Federal support a possibility?
When this fire season is all done, it may turn out to be above average or even average. Unfortunately, if not for arson by radical environmentalists and anarchists it may have been below average.
Yeah average for so much tinder lying around, with no forest management. Same as in Australia.
That’s the problem with stats, they never state axioms, and sh*it happens.
Forestry and housing policy have been under the control of Democrats since, effectively, 1959.
So a Republican mess from the 1950s I guess? Let’s be reasonable and put the blame on the real culprits.
After 60 years of diligent effort, the Socialists just need a few more generations in power to get Calizuela all the way into the ditch.
Left wing states hate forestry. Here in Mass. there is a powerful movement to end all forestry- first on state land, then on private land “to save the climate”. I and a few others battle them every day.
Left, as in sinister, hate everything. They hate themselves and exert their evil on everything and everyone.
Mr. Hund – you said a mouthful of truth.
The State of Jefferson looks better every day, doesn’t it?
The dos Equis on the flag are nice.
Is Newson vying to be the Democrat’s VP pick for Biden’s VP pick in the event that he (Biden) totally drops out or blows his fuse? Wait ….. that would be ‘white privilege’.
I don’t believe that PG&E has the entire monopoly for “climate change”. I think the sun might find that offensive and file a lawsuit. Now that would be something to see!
So Newsom went on the offensive to claim climate crisis knowing full well that PG&E’s egregious lack of maintenance of their power lines coupled with ridiculously inadequate forestry management and CA’s foolish dismantling or ignoring ancient canals to provide water to the southern regions instead of dumping it all in the sea have created a trifecta for wildfires. Makes sense, pass the buck and blame something bigger, badder, and worse all due to humans.
I would love to see the entirety of climate change labeled an MLM (pyramid scheme for those that are outside of that particular circle of bombardment hell here in the US, where they are semilegal due to vagueness of language in the law). Because they are so similar, only the people at the top make any money, recruitment is the entirety of the operation and shaming for “not doing enough, not wanting it hard enough, not working enough, not hussling enough…etc…etc..” is the company byline. And blaming everything on climate change is akin to blaming the failure of an individual to make any money in a corrupt scheme designed to only funnel money to the upline.
So who gets paid for this disaster? Because I’ll bet you dollars to donuts, the cleanup crew has the contract in hand and ready to execute with a big fat check CA can’t afford to write. They better cash it now before it bounces.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand it PG&E has no control over where they spend their money. Their budget is line item reviewed and managed by the Public Utility Board. So the planned maintenance money was moved into the “fund more renewable energy” category every year for many years.
You nailed it. Not only that but CA won’t let the power company clear cut right-of-ways. So what happens when trees fall onto high voltage power lines
Leftist objective: ever more power, until 100% of the economy is under political control and the average person receives a stipend (at politicians’ whim) and must do the work required until death.
Means: use of fear and the big lie to justify taking ever more power and money
Blame everything that goes wrong on someone else.
A friend back in 1970 told me that in her opinion the leftists wouldn’t be happy until everyone lived in a state owned house and worked for the state.
She then told the following joke:
Union leader says: When we get our freedom we will all have Rolls Royces and smoke cigars, like the bosses.
Worker replies: But I can’t drive and don’t smoke.
Union leader: When we get our freedom you will jolly well do what you’re told.
When the next leftist government manages to cheat its way into federal power climate change will be declared a “public health emergency” and they will install a totalitarian rule that would make Mao blush. And since the climate change public health emergency can be whatever they define it as (too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, ad infinitum) it will never end. Brilliant in its simplicity.
This is exactly what the want. They won’t be satisfied, until they destroy the middle class and conservatives – it means doing the same thing the Nazi Party did in the 1930’s. Take control of the media, which has been done at around 90-95%, the government, the military, tax at a high rate (including high death taxes), tax carbon (a trace gas that greens our planet), make everyone drive an EV, stop fracking and oil consumption (a gal of gas will be over $10 a gal), make solar panels mandatory, release all serious criminals from prison, pay off college debt and reparations, raise taxes to 70% to help pay for everything, destroy businesses and destroy our economy, open borders to anyone, allow gangs like MS 13 to flourish, use the FBI/CIA/DOJ/NSA to be the Gustopo/SS against all republican law makers, take over all medical (160 million people will lose their medical plans), and it will destroy our country. It will crash our economy, including world wide. That’s just a bit of what will happen. Oh…I forgot about our 2nd amendment! GONE! Does this remind you of exactly what Marx recommended, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler did, and several hundred million innocent people murdered.
The CBC in Canada is at it too. They had “meteorologist” Johanna Wagstaffe, who works out of British Columbia on today. She blamed “climate change” and the “hottest summer on record”. She did not specify where it was the hottest on record, so I do not know if she was referring to the west coast of Canada or the USA.
I will try to find the news clip.
Your not hearing about wildfires in Canada and Mexico right now, just the U.S.
That’s because there may not be much to hear about. A visual of North America day by day:
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-133.42647116575205,40.13570593925158,-116.88961525644481,48.48165040598006&t=2020-09-10-T18%3A54%3A32Z
No, but in western Canada they are talking about smoke and health and covid.
Maybe the event occurred on another planet?
Where, pray tell, is the heat in BC? I’m not the only one complaining about tomatoes being 2 weeks late, despite the ‘heat’.
It sure wasn’t the “hottest summer” in British Columbia. One hundred year record COLD records were broken in June in our Interior, including snow on major highways. On the Coast, we all had to turn on the home heating July 1st it was so cold; first time ever for that. It’s been not-hot here since then. Of course, that is not reportable news for CBC.
But, hey, somewhere on our planet, it was the hottest summer on record!
“I will try to find the news clip.”
While you’re at it, Gerald, go find Berkeley Earth data set that shows the observed ‘climate change’ (Warming since 1990) in Washington State where these burning forests have been living in the past 30 years as :
Washington State …
-.54 (+- .41) degrees C per century where MINUS means cooling.\
You might also send the (Warming since 1990) data on BC (from the same source) to Ms. Wagstaffe.
British Columbia …
-.04 (+-.32) degrees C per century where MINUS means cooling.
berkeleyearth.lbl.gov/state-list/
Thanks.
Will write there again.
Nothing to see here but the customary cynical opportunism. Newsom can’t possibly be so stupid as to not realize that if you pile up enough kindling, you can have a fire even if it’s below zero outside.
It’s the top down and bottom up strategy where the small minority of radicals/antifa/blm make demands and the radical left democrats enact policy to conform. All backed by a complicit media.
The old Jessie Jackson shakedown. Worked so well for him that the left turned it into a formula.
Yes.
Most people just want to be left alone.
They understand the need for stop signs and traffic laws and other manifestations of Government that, here in the US, was intended to prevent one individual from violating the rights of another individual.
But the left sees “Government”, authority as a tool, a club, to beat such into submission.
Do their rank and file ever wonder why so many multi=billionaires such as Soros fund the socialist/Marxist agenda?
It’s not because their dream is to someday not being able to afford to someone cut their own lawns.
I grew up in California. Periodic fires, droughts, the Santa Ana winds are a natural part of the climate there. The evidence goes back thousands of years.
The native population, possibly going back as far as 20,000 years ago, set fires to clear undergrowth. Several species of trees require fires to reproduce. Look at the ancient Sequoias – evidence of ancient fires mark them.
The super-destructive fires of today come partly from foreign-introduced weed trees, like the Eucalyptus with its flammable “gum” sap. Some forests that were pleasant groves in my youth (60s) are now impenetrable tangles of Eucalyptus. When a spark goes into that mess, with the ragged aromatic loose bark everywhere, it naturally catches fire right away.
Long ago periodic natural fires would have kept the fire load down. So a natural fire would not become a towering inferno that sweeps all before it in a crown fire.
Just as they blamed “witches” for climate change in past ages, they blame ordinary folks for fires today. Maybe they get some votes out of it, but they have sold their very souls. The truth will out.
Good comment. Below is a good article, which mention La Nina.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/the_west_coast_burns_and_leftists_blame_climate_change_but_theyre_wrong.html
“Climate Change” is simultaneously both the excuse for the consequences of bad Progressive policy and the excuse for even more and bigger bad Progressive policy.
It’s always a crisis with these people because they have to distract from the fact that they have nothing to offer. Their modus operandi is always the same: 1) create a problem, or perception of a problem, 2) blame it on their opponents or something they disagree with, 3) offer their own ideas or themselves as the solution. This pattern is observable in everything they do.
Newsom said “if you do not believe in science I hope you believe in observed evidence” then he quoted
4900 fires burned 118,000 acres in 2019
7700 fires burned 3,200,000 acres in 2020
2020 burned 26 times more than 2019
Does Newsom want people to infer the observed evidence shows we had really bad global warming this year but none last year?
He prepared remarks are nothing more that trying to baffle people with BS. What a phony dick.
Ask him the same question we put to Griff and Loydo, so if we agree it’s climate change. Now what are you going to do to stop it next year or even the next 50 years? You can’t say emission control because that doesn’t do anything for 70 to 100 years so you obviously have a Plan B so you need to spell it out to us.
Plan B will NOT be spelled out until AFTER it’s implemented.
Only then can you read it.
And it will be extremely painful.
At that rate of increase, in three years, the entire state will be burned each year.
Very strong solar minimum at the present. Something like
the strongest since 1906.
Which as I understand it effect both the storm track and
ocean currents. La Nina is a strong
prediction for the near future.
Lay that over the top of a grossly mismanaged forest and there
it is….If I were made king for a day in CA I would build a group
of biomass plants and start getting things in order. And
make sure at least one of the plants was a solids to liquids
to fuel the machinery…
Leftists always try to use a catastrophe to advance their agenda. Conservatives try to deal with the catastrophe and help those affected.
I can’t help wondering how much of this is arson. The west coast seems to have lots of folks that like to start fires.
Some of it definitely is arson.
https://twitter.com/MultCoSO/status/1304577271429099520
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/1304818819177885697
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-charged-arson-connection-almeda-fire-southern-oregon/story?id=72960208
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1304698919708889088
https://twitter.com/nehdah/status/1304202802181230592
The climate of mexifornia is a special case of the climate west of the Mississippi River. Which has as its defining attribute below average rainfall. It is arid. And that is normal for the area, except the Northwest “rain-forest” of Vancouver, Washington, and the western part of Oregon.
Mexifornia oscillates between the deserts to the south and west, and the rain-forest to the north, as the seasons change and the variations in the weather systems of the Pacific vary from year to year.
Big picture: Mexifornia is a tinder box, with enough rain to promote growth of trees and brush that are hardy enough to survive drought by dormancy.
No matter what you do IT WILL BURN !!!!!
A smart management policy would be to utilize controlled burns, in addition to creating fire breaks, and periodic removal of fuel loads in area prone to compression heated winds.
A stupid management system would be to do nothing and blame “angry Gods” or “climate change” or Republicans when your state goes up in flames.
Stupid people elect stupid politicians. Public schools produce stupid voters. The “cycle of stupid” is strong in mexifornia.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/not-climate-change-oregon-law-enforcement-video-talking-political-arsonists-area/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/oregon-officials-announce-arrest-two-alleged-arsonists-including-criminal-transient/
No weather events to start these fires over Labor Day Weekend, but plenty of arsonists withing the antifa and blm crowd. Plenty of film of them burning buildings, police cars, homes, other people… it’s a no brainer!
Blah blah blah, you sucker punch your constituents everyday with irresponsible and progressive policies. Hoodlums of enormous wealth…Dems did this over decades of greedy politics and if you want change in Cally vote red.
Cliff Mass had a segment on this in his podcast. He indicated the intense cold just east of the continental divide is the source of higher atmospheric pressures coupled with the warm, low density air on the west coast. This pressure differential leads to strong winds. Reduce temperature differences by warming the continent should reduce chances of these fire events and modeling he’s done confirms that. It’s a good listen. https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/09/new-podcast-smoke-and-fire-plus-weekend.html
For progressives, it’s never their fault. No matter what goes wrong, they always have at least one ready made boogeyman to blame things on.
In this case, it’s not their decades of forest mismanagement, it’s climate change.
Bugaboo! And, of course, Obama’s now infamous “burden”. Wicked.
Whenever decades of government corruption or mismanagement bears it’s bitter fruits the left always has an answer. That answer is it’s our fault! White middleclass people have brought it about and only more power in the hands of the government can fix it!
The “climate change” hoax offers an excuse for virtually everything the left wants and that it absolute power over everyone and every dime. Even this half educated trucker recognized those facts long ago. And yet a huge swath of people supposedly better educated than I, not only fail to see the obvious, they facilitate those that would destroy them and their way of life with their votes and money.