Then there is Hawaii's Gov. Joshua Green, what a guy - the perfect politician, a liar laying the blame for Maui's devastation on climate change rather than where it belongs, largely on his administration's and the government of Maui's own inaction in the face of known wildfire threats.
The Hawaiian Islands have wet and dry seasons, and it is currently the dry season on Maui.
Fires require fuel, and big fires require large fuel loads.
That is all on the Hawaiian and Maui governments. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal among other news outlets detailed the fact that fire officials and the island’s electric utility had warned for more than a decade that the island was at extreme risk of wildfires due to fuel buildup, the naturally arid environment during the dry season, and high winds -- the very confluence of conditions responsible for the wildfires on Maui.
Despite the clear and present danger, and a recent increase in wildfires accompanying the spread of invasive grasses, the Hawaiian government ranked wildfire risk as “low.” Not so, said Nani Barretto, executive director of Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization.
Let's hope real investigations take place, that the appropriate parties are identified and suffer the legal or political consequences of their actions or inaction, and that measures are taken to minimize the risk of such large, devastating wildfires striking Maui or other Hawaiian islands again in the future.
Ecologist Jim Steele was right when he wrote, "The Maui fire would have devastated Lahaina in a colder or warmer climate. It would have devastated Lahaina in high or low CO2 concentrations."
People like Hawaiian Gov. Green who blame climate change for Maui's raging fires and tragic, large loss of life are despicable: the worst kind of opportunists, grotesquely dancing on the smoldering bodies of those whose lives were lost, exploiting death to push a political agenda.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/what_caused_the_maui_fires.html
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