Remember when right wing Trolls pretended LA Fires were Democratic incompetence and not climate change?

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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