Yesterday the Sacramento Bee claimed that the Palisades fires are because of climate change. “No joke,” as the outgoing President likes to say.

Sacramento Bee: Climate change fueled LA area wildfires in CA, experts say

PBS: Warming climate created ‘perfect storm’ for catastrophic fires, NASA researcher says

NBC Los Angeles: The clear links between the California wildfires and climate change

New York Times: The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by climate change: “Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.”

Do these reporters actually believe the fires were the result of rising temperatures around the globe, instead of being fueled by dense vegetation that had built up over years, as is the case with the Palisades fire?

Claiming that these fires are because of climate change is patently absurd. I don’t think anyone who just watched their home and neighborhood and their kids’ schools burn to the ground is thinking “that damned climate change…”

Most people actually know that the “climate change” moniker is the latest catch-all for dull and deceitful politicians, and low-information journalists as cover for their incompetence and corruption. It’s also a good excuse for politicians to redistribute taxpayer funds to shady NGOs and non-profit organizations which claim that more public money will solve the climate problem – eventually.