Posted on 08/21/2023 2:45:36 AM PDT by Libloather
Climate change "amplified" the failures of officials to act properly on the Maui wildfires, Hawaii Democratic Gov. Josh Green suggested on Sunday.
While appearing on CBS’ "Face the Nation," Green discussed what some people have considered critical mistakes by both local officials and private companies regarding the disaster. Though Green acknowledged failures in decisions made "in the moment" by these actors, he also remarked that these mistakes were aggravated by climate change.
"So just to be clear, when you’re talking about global warming, are you saying climate change amplified the cost of human error?" CBS host Margret Brennan asked.
"Yes. It did," Green replied.
He added, "There’s always going to be incredible things that people do to save lives from the firefighters, from the citizens. And there are always decisions made that I’m sure aren’t perfect in the moment. But when you have fire that moved more than a mile a minute, and what happened, I’m told by some of the survivors, they were at the initial fire, it was put out some time late in the afternoon in Lahaina, and then the firefighters had to go to three other fires that started because of the conditions."
"There’s no excuses ever to be made, but there are finite resources sometimes in the moment," Green said.
The West Maui Land Company, which manages several agricultural and residential subdivisions along with water jurisdictions, alleged on Friday that it requested to divert water to fight the wildfires on the day they began but were delayed several hours. According to the company, the Commission On Water Resource Management had to clear the decision with local farmers before acting.
Others, including Brennan, pointed out that the utility company Hawaiian Electric was aware since 2019 that more effort needed to be made to prevent power lines...
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They are liars
The neurotic obsession with Climate Change caused a fundamental breakdown in the taxpayer-funded civil responsibilities.
Okay, then let’s prosecute for ~500 manslaughter charges.
Climate change ate my homework
Ah .. come on man ..
you know global warming /cooling/change did this deed.
You know it couldn't have anything to do with blackrock or vangaurd... or not maintaining the brush clearing ... or water equity ... misdirection of public money by political hacks.
... come on man ...
now ........ get off my lawn
Climate change has a mind of its own!
“The neurotic obsession with Climate Change caused a fundamental breakdown in the taxpayer-funded civil responsibilities.”
Mission accomplished.
These people claim to believe completely in climate whatever; how could they not have taken it into account?
Seriously? You think that's strange?
Once the smoke has cleared...I think a dozen people associated with emergency services, water control and the police...will be gone. Either they weren’t qualified for the job, or had priorities which weren’t related to public safety.
So climate change made them too addled to make decisions?
Wow...nasty stuff...
When things went bad they used to blame the gremlins. Now it’s climate change. How things have changed and yet the stay the same.
It just goes to prove, people that are in charge are idiots .
Targeted fires to burn out working class Native Hawaiian’s home so NWO types can buy them up.😡😡
Highland Clearances.
Just in the modern day.
did they murder for it?
Climate change is a pagan religion. It relieves the believer of any responsibility for daily events. Life is in the hands of the fickle gods. It’s pathetic to watch these helpless, weak people and listen to their pathetic excuses.
I wonder if that pathetic excuse will work everywhere.
IRS agent: Your tax return contains many, many errors.
Me: Any mistakes were amplified by climate change.
Yeah...
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