Fourteen Blue State Attorney Generals signed a letter asking the Feds and FEMA to recognize extreme heat and wildfire smoke as major disaster declarations. The goal is to get the Feds to write them a check backed by your increasingly useless dollars, ‘cuz climate change.
“The climate change science is clear and overwhelming: our planet is getting hotter, wildfire seasons are getting longer and more destructive, and the resulting wildfire smoke is a real danger to public health,” Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum said in the release. “We need the federal government to keep up with the realities Oregonians face, and we need FEMA to have the jurisdiction to assist when we ask for help. I stand with my co-signers on this letter in urging FEMA to move quickly and amend its definition of ‘major disaster’ to include extreme heat and wildfire smoke events.”
The science is clear, but not in the way these AGs would like. 2023 had the fewest acres burned in a century. The incidence of arson (often by so-called environmental activists) as the cause is well documented and on the rise. And as for heat, sure, it’s hot in some parts of the US, but not as hot as when atmospheric CO2 was half what it is today. And most important of all, this has nothing to do with climate. It’s about money. What we like to call jackpot justice.
AGs aren’t likely to get millions and bold headlines from charging arsonists or from states like California, whose woodland management is more to blame. There’s no pot at the end of either rainbow and lawfare against energy companies continues to fall flat, so what is a cash-strapped, budget-blinkered state lacking in fiscal fidelity to do when random disaster requires monies they spend to print IDs for illegal aliens or on EBT cards and hotel rooms for invading migrants? Ask the feds to print them some. And I suspect the like-minded Feds will, but the science isn’t there.
More CO2 is scientifically proven to result in fewer heat wave days and significantly fewer acres burned by wildfire or any other cause.
The AGs who signed on include Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont.
Letter to FEMA:
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