Remember when right wing Trolls pretended LA Fires were Democratic incompetence and not climate change?
Well about that…
Climate triple whammy boosted risk of LA fires, study shows
A triple whammy of climate impacts boosted the risk of the ferocious fires that recently ravaged Los Angeles, a scientific study has shown.
Firstly, the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the fires were made 35% more likely by the global heating caused by fossil fuel burning. Secondly, the low rainfall seen from October to December is now about 2.4 times more likely than in the preindustrial past, before the climate crisis. Rains during these months have historically brought an end to the wildfire season around LA.
Thirdly, conditions of high fire risk have extended by more than three weeks in today’s heated climate, now reaching into January. This means fires have more chance of breaking out during the peak Santa Ana winds, which can blow small fires into deadly infernos.
The extreme fires began blazing around LA on 7 January. Powerful mountain winds drove the fires through tinder-dry vegetation and into urban areas. At least 28 people were killed and more than 10,000 homes destroyed. The fires are the most destructive in LA’s history and may be the costliest in US history.
…The Political Right MUST blame the unprecedented LA Fires on Democratic incompetence rather than climate change because it is essential for the narrative construct of neoliberal capitalism that climate change is a socialist hoax.
The truth is the underfunded fire service that has survived a thousand cuts could not in away way have really stopped what happened because what happened is climate change!
We have warned and warned and warned people this was the consequence of dangerously super heating the planet for the Polluter Industries.
Raise the planet by more than 1.5 degrees in temperature and the EXACT scenes playing out in LA becomes the norm.
It normally takes hundreds of thousands of years to build up to the Carbon levels we now have in the atmosphere, the only difference is we have done it in 3 centuries.
We are utterly off the rails and in uncharted territory.
With a more than 50% chance the AMOC will shut down before 2050, we are in an environmental doom loop.
This is why the Right have to blame Democratic incompetence rather than their own Toal acquiescence to the Polluter Industries.
We are in the age on consequences and we need to know who to blame.
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This is not a Left/Right thing, it never has been. And in the neoliberal world that we live in, we are now supposed to believe that this service is more than adequately funded. Well, why don’t we ask the people on the ground. Very telling, I would think, that their viewpoint is non-existent here. You want to see what a highly politicized issue looks like – this is it – because there’s more than one side to this issue, but we are not getting all sides to this issue, we only get what the powers-that-be wants us to know. That’s politics, that’s bullshyt!
Apparently the latest airline crash is in the states is the democrats fault also…..according to Trump.
No compassion, not waiting for an investigation but typical of Trumps diabolical playback. Very similar to the way this coalition of chaos plays politics here, no evidence to back their accusations.
CNN blamed Trump’s from the start. No compassion, not waiting……
Haha. Delete. When the Left can’t argue the Left lose.
When the right are corrupt everyone loses.
The right have alternative facts or commonly known as lies. Trump has been fact checked and lied so many times, he is the joke. Haha. No one one from the right can argue that.
You lost with those arguments and he won. Two months ago. You’ve learned nothing.
The USA get the best government that money can buy and this link could be a factor.
https://youtu.be/0LN65qFUDDo?si=jtQOG_sC3-8WQN7H
If Trump lasts 4 years there’s going to be a lot of his voters having major regret is what I’m thinking. Those without the ability to think logically probably won’t change so you should be safe.
What on earth are you on about Xenophobe. That’s not debating that’s you being a moron and yes we all knew THAT 2 months ago. That much we did learn.
@ Xylophone. Thank God you make no sense at all. Haha. Delete.
Ahh climate change, the great bureaucratic get out of jail free card. Back in 2015 the Dunedin City Council tried to absolve themselves of any responsibility for the South D floods by playing the same card. (In reality they hadn’t bothered to check the drains).
How about taking responsibility for a change?
Shhh… Those are RW troll points, which LA voters are agreeing with.
Shhh… Xenophobe escaped from the Mason clinic.
Shhh…. remember when RW trolls thought earthquakes were caused by gays.
Bursting forth with the rumble of 10,000 chocolate pony riders the quaking RW trolls scattered
The right wing have many issues.
Is this Xenophon in disguise?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-act-party-president-tim-jago-named-as-former-political-figure-who-abused-teenage-boys/PRWOK3BNCJED5PO36RCNG4JG2M/
You have an ex party president Squeaky, I raise you Taito Philip Field the only sitting MP to have been jailed in NZ history…what side/party?
The left…Labour
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