John Stossel Already Debunked the Idea That Climate Change Caused the California Wildfires

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Posted on 01/10/2025 4:05:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The moment any kind of natural disaster happens, Democrats immediately begin screaming about climate change. Of all the boogiemen the left has in their closet of scary monsters, "climate change" is arguably their most successful as it's allowed the left to use it as a way to frighten people into voting for them, and allowed them to manipulated billions and billions of dollars to their liking.

With the California wildfires raging around LA, you can bet the Democrats immediately pointed to climate change as the culprit.

Is it? Did the fires start because of the prophesied coming of mother nature's retribution for humanity's hubris and abuse of the planet?

Nope. Paganism is, once again, wrong.

The fires are the fault of bad management and horrific environmental policies laid down by the very people who claim to love the environment the most, and John Stossel's video on the subject makes that very clear.

As usual, Stossel cut through the nonsense the left and its obedient media like to feed the people and looked at the facts. Funny enough, the video he created on the California wildfires wasn't even from this year. This video, in particular, was released four years ago when wildfires were raging through California thanks to government mismanagement of the forests.

As Stossel points out in a post on X, nothing has actually changed.

The funny part about all this is that, in his video from 2020, he points out that even many environmental groups such as the Sierra Club, and environmentalists like Michael Shellenberger, agree that the way the forests are being managed are wholly wrong. Fires are a good thing and help keep the forest refreshed and healthy, however, well maintained forests allow for burning without it getting out of control.

This is something that the leadership of California has all but ignored, which is exactly what many have been pointing out lately.

As Stossel notes in his video, the real cause is "foolish policies."

"For years, government put out every fire they could," said Stossel, who goes on to say that to protect forests you have to occasionally burn them and implement "selective cutting."

Shellenberger noted that Native Americans understood this, and they would start fires from time to time. Early Europeans would even note that, during the summer months in California, the air would be smokey because fires were so natural there, but thanks to bad policies, there haven't been good fires for around 100 years. This causes a lot of dead brush to accumulate, effectively creating a tinderbox.

None of this is helped by the "apocalyptic" journalists who continue to push the idea that these fires can never be allowed to happen, or continue to blame every incident of fires on world-ending climate change.

As Stossel shows in his video, ecologist Hugh Stafford of the US Forest Service said "we have to get away from the tree hugging mentality."

Shellenberger noted that Native Americans understood this, and they would start fires from time to time. Early Europeans would even note that, during the summer months in California, the air would be smokey because fires were so natural there, but thanks to bad policies, there haven't been good fires for around 100 years. This causes a lot of dead brush to accumulate, effectively creating a tinderbox. 

None of this is helped by the "apocalyptic" journalists who continue to push the idea that these fires can never be allowed to happen, or continue to blame every incident of fires on world-ending climate change.

As Stossel shows in his video, ecologist Hugh Stafford of the US Forest Service said "we have to get away from the tree hugging mentality." 

Shellenberger notes that Newsom and Trump signed an agreement to begin doing better forest maintenance, such as cutting down trees, in order to better protect the people from fires. However, as Mel Gibson and Joe Rogan recently discussed, Newsom never did what he agreed to do. 

And now we have the LA fires.

Watch Stossel's video for yourself. As usual, it's very educational, and not the "education" the left would like you to have. In fact, they didn't want you to have it so much that when it was released, Facebook censored it. 

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