Posted on 01/13/2025 7:24:08 PM PST by CFW
“All these things are connected. This is a challenging time. But we’re up to this challenge.”
That was California Gov. Gavin Newsom back in 2020 when he was busy blaming “climate change” for the wildfires that erupted that year. “I quite literally have no patience for climate change deniers,” he said.
Four years later, Newsom is again blaming “climate change” for the fires ravaging LosAngeles.
But wait. If climate change really is to blame, why was California so obviously, so woefully, so inexcusably unprepared?
Someone needs to ask Newsom why the state didn’t spend the last four years aggressively clearing out underbrush to minimize the chances of a catastrophic wildfire. Why didn’t it carve out large and effective buffer zones to keep fires from reaching populated areas? Why wasn’t there a Marshall Plan-scale effort to build reservoirs so firefighters could get water from hydrants?
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A Free Beacon review of the program’s latest data found that of the 525 approved projects spanning 666,450 acres, only 231 projects spanning just 6,000 acres have been completed. There are only two projects located in the Los Angeles metro area spanning 130 acres — a fuel reduction project proposed by the Los Angeles County Fire Department and a nonprofit watershed project — but both remain incomplete.
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...... The investigation found Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 ‘priority projects’ carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.
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Newscum is a Climate Fraud denier.
Did you hear that, you newly houseless suckers? You can’t sue Gavin - you must sue Climate Change!
Is it warming?
Is it cooling?
What do plants eat? So many questions.
Can't question THEIR religion. But soak a cross in urine and viola, it's ART. How enlightened. Smh
If not, I'm going bear hunting.
Makes him “look” like he’s criminally incompetent?????
How about he IS criminally incompetent?
Hopefully, he’s totally washed up, politically speaking, and we’ve seen the end of this nasty little turd of a grease ball.
Ooops. Wrong picture. My bad, those are the down-trodden who have been arrested for looting.
LOL
So Gavin legislature just passed 50 million to DETRUMP Calif. And they want Trump to send them BILLIONS in aid?
Maybe we not such good timing. How abt we DEGAVIN America
Gee. Is their a DEI program for that? If so, it worked.
Honestly, California should become independent.
I haven’t seen a comb-over like 2nd from the right (top row) in years. I’m glad those have disappeared.
Newsom is a pathological liar. He was bitching about “climate change
causing wildfires” in 2020 but was remiss in preventing the 2025 inferno.
<><>he said fuel breaks and prescribed burns needed prioritizing
<><>he seemed concerned about protecting the most vulnerable communities.
<><>Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated
<><>Newsom’s executive order cited 35 ‘priority projects’
<><>he claimed fire prevention work on 90,000 acres.
<><>but the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.
<><>525 projects spanning 666,450 acres were state approved
<><>but only 231 projects spanning just 6,000 acres have been completed.
<><>There are only two projects located in the Los Angeles metro area spanning 130 acres —
<><>a fuel reduction project proposed by the Los Angeles County Fire Department
<><>and a nonprofit watershed project
<><>both remain incomplete.
Means the will not make any changes.
No changes will be made.
Correct.
Does Gavin really think he has a shot at running for president in 2028?
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