The fires that ripped through Maui, killing residents and destroying property, is a tragedy that shocked the nation, but as more information came out about what happened, it was increasingly clear that its Democrat leadership paved the way for these deadly fires to not only appear but grow.
Regardless, no one in Hawaii's Democrat leadership is taking responsibility for what happened, and instead, they're choosing to blame it on climate change, the nebulous villain that continues to plague the entire world to the point where it could destroy us all unless we hand power to the government and let them regulate mankind properly...according to Democrats.
In fact, any Democrat you ask about Maui will result in them pointing the finger at climate change and saying global warming started the fires. As Fox News covered, Democrats couldn't wait to stand on the death and destruction of Maui and use it as a soapbox to spread their climate change narrative, including Sens. Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley, Dick Durbin, and RepCori Bush.
"This is devastating. This is a climate emergency," Markey, an original sponsor of the Green New Deal, wrote in a post on X on Aug. 10. "I stand in solidarity with my friends and colleagues from Hawai’i — we must act fast, provide aid, and invest in a resilient and safe future."
"Heartbreaking fires in Hawaii! Scientists are clear that climate chaos wreaking havoc on ecosystems everywhere is the new norm," Merkley said in a separate post. "We need to take action immediately or else it will get even worse."
Durbin warned that the wildfires were a "devastating view of our planet as we fail to adequately address the climate crisis."
"My heart breaks hearing of the devastation in Maui," Bush added. "The climate crisis is here and it's killing people. It’s time for [Biden] to declare a climate emergency."
The truth is a little less dramatic than a prophesied global catastrophe that never comes and more an issue of negligence of the local infrastructure. As I wrote before, the problem was a mix of issues that began with bad insulation of the island's power lines:
So it wasn't climate change. The explanation is pretty simple. High winds from Hurricane Dora (hurricanes are a common phenomenon) hundreds of miles south of Hawaii created high pressure on the Pacific Ocean that enhanced wind gusts up past 80 mph. Maui is currently experiencing a drought (an unfortunate phenomenon humans have experienced since before written history) and when the winds hit the trees and the power lines, it caused the two unintentionally interact, thus sparking the fires.
Perhaps the fires wouldn't have devastated the island to the extent they did, but the island's social justice-obsessed leadership delayed the water from getting where it needed to go for five whole hours.
At this point, there's no denying that the issue wasn't climate change but a combination of common occurrences and a lack of real preparation by Maui's leadership for the eventuality of wildfires.
With all the dead and the magnitude of the destruction, do you think Democrats would realize their folly, repent of their ways, and begin focusing on doing what's right for the people instead of what's right for the Party?
Dream on.
As Fox News points out, as it's made pretty clear that the answer was an infrastructure problem, the Democrats that declared the bodies on Maui were the result of manmade climate change have now gone silent:
Democratic lawmakers who blamed the recent wildfires in Hawaii on climate change were largely silent in response to requests for comment when asked about evidence showing the state's main power company is responsible.
Fox News Digital contacted five lawmakers — Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Cori Bush, D-Mo. — who were among the voices claiming the devastating fires were sparked by man-made global warming. While Khanna provided a response, the four other lawmakers ignored the requests noting Maui County, Hawaii, alleged in a lawsuit the fires were sparked by power lines.
Only Khanna responded to Fox News with a defense of his position, stating "Hawaiian Electric's negligence does not change the fact that hotter and dryer weather due to climate change allowed the wildfires to spread faster and do more damage. I stand by my call."
The climate change narrative as pushed by the left is based on bad science and is one of the largest hoaxes foisted on humanity in the history of its existence. This narrative is continuously disproven and its predictions consistently fail to happen, and yet climate activists from the federal government to the foot soldiers blocking traffic in the street all continue to double, triple, and quadruple down on the obvious lie. At this point, it's more akin to a religion than anything to do with science.
(READ: A Non-Believer’s View of the Church of Climate Change)
So unwilling is the left to break with the lie that they are more than willing to sacrifice your safety and, as Maui shows, your life on their beliefs. They are demonstrably resistant to learning from the obvious lessons in front of them and continue to embrace a continuously disproven narrative and the dangerous agenda it gives birth to.
(READ: Climate Radicals are Out of Control and They're Going to Get Worse If We Don't Stop Them)
There's a saying going around lately that sadly rings very true: "The carbon they're trying to reduce on Earth is you."
Sadly, Maui seems to prove this saying to be true.
