When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the media meme was that is was all President Bush(43)’s fault. Yet, my question was, and is, who are the stupid fools who build New Orleans below sea level. Now that much of California is engulfed in forest fires, California Governor Moonbeam, b/k/a Jerry Brown, is now blaming so-called global warming.
Given that forest fires in California are neither more common, nor destroy more acreage, than prior to 1940, forest fires are not the real problem, from Climate Deport [1]:
California Governor Jerry Brown is blaming “climate deniers” for more California’s devastating wildfires despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that wildfires are not historically worse or caused by “global warming.” See:
Jerry Brown: Climate-Change Deniers ‘Definitely Contributing’ to the ‘New Abnormal’ of Wildfires [2]– California Gov. Jerry Brown said all climate-change deniers are “definitely contributing” to the fatal wind-whipped wildfires that have pummeled northern and southern parts of the state over the past few days, as well as blazes “in the coming years.”
The problem with Katrina was not that some land got flooded. The problem was that the land occupied by New Orleans got flooded. Likewise the problem isn’t that California forestland has been burnt, and continues to burn. The problem that land containing high value real estate is being destroy. The United States does not have a problem with global warming. California has a problem with stupid zoning laws.