Surrounded by fire, California politicians question links to climate change

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Surrounded by fire, California politicians question links to climate change

As Carr fire claims lives and homes in pro-Trump area, local residents reject science: ‘It’s bull’

Jason Wilson in Redding, California
Wed 1 Aug 2018 06.00 BST

At a public meeting not far from the California town of Redding last year, the US congressman Doug LaMalfa said that he “didn’t buy” human-made climate change.

“I think there’s a lot of bad science behind what people are calling global warming,” he said on another occasion.

In recent days, the outskirts of Redding have been ravaged by the Carr wildfire, and scientists have directly connected the blaze, which has claimed six lives and dozens of properties, to climate change. Yet LaMalfa sounds unswayed.

“I’m not going to quibble here today about whether it’s man, or sunspot activity, or magma causing ice shelves to melt,” he told the Guardian on Tuesday, citing discredited alternative explanations for rising temperatures.

Can climate-driven natural disasters shift attitudes about climate change? In Redding, the weeks to come may provide a somber test case.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/31/california-wildfire-climate-change-carr-fire

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Too bad the fires won't destroy only the houses

of climate change deniers. Who then learn that their home owners insurance has some clause that prevents them from collecting on it.

I know, not a nice thought, but they'd bring down worse on us if they could.

[defacto7]

2. When you're confronted by the facts...

and even if your whole world is burning around you... just refuse to be wrong and double down on your stupidity.
The mind of the conservative right winger is vastly mis-wired.

[The River]

3. LaMafia is My Rep

and I'm hoping we can vote him out in November.
He's worse than useless.