{"id":2007917,"date":"2023-08-22T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-normal-for-the-entire-planet-hawaii-dem-senator-blames-climate-change-for-tragic-maui-fire\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:23:16","slug":"new-normal-for-the-entire-planet-hawaii-dem-senator-blames-climate-change-for-tragic-maui-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-normal-for-the-entire-planet-hawaii-dem-senator-blames-climate-change-for-tragic-maui-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Senator links tragic Maui fire to climate change, calls it the &#8216;new normal&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-normal-for-the-entire-planet-hawaii-dem-senator-blames-climate-change-for-tragic-maui-fire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007917&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senator Brian Schatz Blames Climate Change for \u200dTragic\u2063 Fire in Lahaina<\/h2>\n<p>Hawaii Democrat Senator Brian \u2063Schatz used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/19-dead-including-nine-children-in-unprecedented-new-york-city-apartment-fire\/\" title=\"19 Dead, Including Nine Children, In \u2018Unprecedented\u2019 New York City Apartment Fire\">horrific fire<\/a> that consumed the city \u200bof Lahaina and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/2023\/08\/21\/breaking-news\/search-and-relief-efforts-continue-as-maui-prepares-for-biden-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed at least 115 people<\/a> \u2063to blame\u200c the tragedy on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-i-got-a-covid-test-four-times-in-one-day-two-came-back-negative-two-came-back-positive-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Elon Musk: I Got A COVID Test Four Times In One Day. \u2018Two Came Back Negative, Two Came Back Positive.\u2019 | The Daily Wire\">climate change<\/a>, \u200ddeclaring that the entire planet was at risk of \u201csevere\u200d weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schatz spoke on \u2064Monday with CNN\u2019s John Berman, who asked, \u201cWhat do you think the most\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-normal-for-the-entire-planet-hawaii-dem-senator-blames-climate-change-for-tragic-maui-fire\/\" title=\"Hawaii Senator links tragic Maui fire to climate change, calls it the 'new normal'.\">important specific lessons<\/a> are that can\u2062 be learned from this to make sure a tragedy of this level does not \u2062happen \u200bagain?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think we \u2062all have to understand that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ercot-board-members-to-resign-after-texas-power-disaster\/\" title=\"ERCOT Board Members To Resign After Texas Power Disaster\">severe weather events<\/a> are going to get more frequent and more severe,\u201d Schatz answered. \u201cHawaii is a\u200c place that has experienced volcanic eruptions and tsunamis and hurricanes and tropical storms. And we\u2019ve had a few wildfires but nothing that threatened a whole city \u2014 nothing \u2064that flattened\u2062 a whole city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I \u2064just think this is the new normal \u2064for not \u2063just the State of Hawaii, but \u2063for the whole planet \u2014 for the whole country,\u201d he\u2064 hyperbolized. \u2064\u201cSo, you know,\u200b as we contend with increasing severe weather all the time, we\u2019re not only \u2062going to need to take action \u200don\u2063 climate. We actually need to be prepared in \u200dterms\u2062 of our emergency response at the state, local, and federal levels for the kind of disaster\u2064 that maybe you hadn\u2019t contemplated before.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hawaii Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianschatz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@brianschatz<\/a> on the man-made\u200b Maui wildfire: \u201cThis is the new normal for \u2026 the whole planet\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FP7XeODyTz\">pic.twitter.com\/FP7XeODyTz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott \u200d(@tomselliott)\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1693653803478786469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Experts Dispute Schatz&#8217;s Climate Change Claims<\/h3>\n<p>Despite Schatz\u2019s focus on climate change, some experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/federal-investigators-dispatched-maui-determine-exact-cause-catastroph-rcna100542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believe<\/a> the cause of \u200cthe Maui fire was high\u2062 winds that downed power\u200c lines. Some victims of\u200b the fire launched a lawsuit targeting Hawaiian Electric, saying its equipment was not resilient enough in \u2064the face of\u200d the heavy winds and the utility\u2064 did not shut down power after a warning of \u200chigh\u2062 winds had been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Berman asked about the\u2063 mayor of Maui\u2019s statement that 850 on Maui were still \u200dunaccounted for, asking if\u2062 it was possible 850 deceased people were still unidentified.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE \u2064TO \u2062GET THE DAILY WIRE\u200b APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI \u200cdon\u2019t want to speculate,\u201d Schatz answered. \u201cThere is a process that\u2064 we are going through FEMA-led with cadaver dogs to go through every single structure in \u200dLahaina town,\u2062 and wherever else there was damage. And obviously, we have between \u2063110 and 120\u2062 confirmed deceased.\u2064 And then there\u2019s a process of identifying via \u200bDNA sample, the identity of the deceased. But we\u2019re just not\u200c done with the process yet. We are\u2064 hoping that many\u200b of the missing \u2064simply haven\u2019t checked in and\u2064 lacked telecommunications. \u2062But we just don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz blamed climate change for the devastating fire in Lahaina, claiming it posed a threat to the entire planet. Speaking to CNN&#8217;s John Berman, Schatz emphasized the risk of &#8220;severe weather.&#8221; The fire tragically claimed the lives of at least 115 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2007918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}