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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The Electric Utility prioritized renewables rather than grid maintenance, so you could say it was “climate change” that caused the fires.
“There’s no excuses ever to be made, but there are finite resources sometimes in the moment,” Green said.
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Did Kamalala write this claptrap for him?
What Saved The ‘Miracle House’ In Lahaina?
The historic structure on Front Street is the last house standing in a neighborhood reduced to rubble.
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During renovations, Millikin installed a commercial-grade steel roof, something that definitely would have provided better protection from flying embers than shingles. At first, Millikin thought this might have made the biggest difference in why his home was spared.
But Michael Wara, the director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at the Stanford Wood Institute for the Environment, said it was likely the Millikins’ decision to dig out the existing landscaping directly surrounding the house and replace it with river stones that made the biggest difference.
“What folks in the wildfire business call the zone zero or the ember ignition zone, is kind of a key factor in whether homes do or do not burn down,” Wara said.
Having nothing combustible in the 5 feet directly around a house is enormously important.
Millikin said the decision to install river stones for about a meter around the house was not actually aimed at fire prevention. He wanted to prevent runoff from landscaping from creating water and termite damage. But it may have saved his home.
Regulations in California have typically focused on a 30-foot perimeter around homes known as “Zone A” in firefighting. But Wara said that research on the thousands of homes that have burned in California in recent years has shown that it’s really what’s installed in the immediate few feet of a home that makes the biggest difference.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/what-saved-the-miracle-house-in-lahaina/
So the guv knows that for sure? Nope. Simply politics. Gotta tout the global warming scam. Tell me, guv, what warmed the Earth between two ice ages? SUVs? Coal-fired generating plants?
I sure hope so. It’s all about being woke and cute and equity. Never about competence these days. Those people were sacrificed to the volcano of wokeness.
I know a different scenario, but it reminds me of the complete incompetence with the school shooting in Uvalde, TX.
Pence: “that’s not my concern.”
I think the real issue is people so dumbed down they can’t see outside their little world to see obvious signs all around them of things needing periodic attention or actions to not have “amplified the cost of human error” situations.
Oh BS
>you know global warming /cooling/change did this deed.<
The follow up question to the dweebs who blame climate change should be - Did the warming or cooling part of climate change cause this?
Remember, it was called global warming until it wasn’t getting warmer then they called it climate change. That’s more vague and provable/disprovable either way.
Heads I win tails you lose.
EC
Nope...
It was blind support of unproven climate change that ‘amplified the cost of human error’...
Like lemmings into the sea...
BS, JOSH...nothing more, nothing less.
BS, JOSH...nothing more, nothing less.
“...are you saying climate change amplified the cost of human error?” “Yes. It did,” Green replied.”
So [they] ADMIT Climate Change is a PsyOp!
Many Hawaiians are lazy, low IQ, Pagans.
It’s just to explain what the world should prepare for. I humbly ask all of the cities and states to spend that money now to prevent disasters like we are seeing here," Green said.
Except it’s not their money, it’s ours.
Gaia wants her land back to give to those in the club.
On August 17 Hurricane Hilary was upgraded from tropical storm to hurricane. On the same day in 1998 Clinton admitted to having intimate relations with Lewinsky in his grand jury testimony, and later goes on national tv and admits the affair.
August 19 is Bill Clinton’s birthday. This day in 1998 the saga of the blue dress and Clinton’s DNA first hit the news.
August 20 - in 1998 was Operation Infinite Reach, U.S. cruise missile strikes in al-Qaeda bases, which many said was a diversion from the Lewinsky scandal. Also on this day Monica Lewinsky testifies a second time before the grand jury.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/17/hurricane-hilary-mexico (Aug 17)
A storm located about 300 miles off the coast of Mexico was upgraded to a hurricane overnight as it heads toward Baja California, potentially bringing heavy rain and winds to the region and the south-western United States this weekend.
Hurricane Hilary formed as a tropical storm about 470 miles off the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico.
This Hawaii governor is such a classic Democrat tool. Ostentatiously parading around in his hospital scrubs while playing politics.
Why would someone put a mansion on a plot of land that destined to burn up? The insurance alone will be astronomical.
Blaming it on AGW is an easy way to diffuse responsibility for bad crisis management.
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