{"id":2014653,"date":"2023-08-28T18:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-hawaii-wildfires-caused-by-climate-change-media-said-before-we-learned-the-real-cause\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:44:12","slug":"flashback-hawaii-wildfires-caused-by-climate-change-media-said-before-we-learned-the-real-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-hawaii-wildfires-caused-by-climate-change-media-said-before-we-learned-the-real-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Wildfires Initially Blamed on Climate Change, But Real Cause Revealed Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fflashback-hawaii-wildfires-caused-by-climate-change-media-said-before-we-learned-the-real-cause%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=2014653&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--><div>\n<h2>Official Failures \u2062and Climate Change: The Devastating Wildfires in Maui<\/h2>\n<p>Videos and \u2064firsthand accounts have made\u2063 it increasingly clear that official failures enabled \u200bwildfires to incinerate the\u2064 Hawaiian\u200c island of Maui earlier \u2062this month, leaving \u200cmore than 100 people dead \u200dand about 1,000 missing.<\/p>\n<p>Downed power lines from a \u2062utility company that failed to turn \u2063off the power <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/08\/15\/maui-fires-power-line-cause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/08\/15\/maui-fires-power-line-cause\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">ignited<\/a> \u2062 the fire, and Maui\u2019s unqualified disaster chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/mauis-top-emergency-official-sound-sirens-fires-approached-rcna100538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/mauis-top-emergency-official-sound-sirens-fires-approached-rcna100538\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">chose not to sound<\/a> the warning\u2063 sirens. But before much of \u200danything had been established, Democratic politicians and journalists filled the void with\u2063 faux-certainty about the role of\u200c <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>.<\/p>\n<h3>Media Coverage:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/10\/climate\/hawaii-fires-climate-change.html#:~:text=Degraded%20forests%20and%20changing%20weather,years%2C%20according%20to%20recent%20research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;How Climate Change Turned Lush\u200b Hawaii\u200b Into a Tinderbox&#8221;:<\/li>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The explanation \u200d [for the wildfires] is as straightforward as it is sobering: As the planet heats up, no place \u200bis\u200b protected from disasters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/08\/hawaii-wildfires-warning-climate-change\/674974\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Atlantic<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;Hawaii Is \u200ba Warning&#8221;:<\/li>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The world doesn\u2019t need more reminders that climate change is accelerating. But\u200b we\u2019re going to keep getting them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawaii-wildfires-climate-change-92c0930be7c28ec9ac71392a83c87582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>:\u2064 &#8220;Maui\u2019s Fire Became \u2064Deadly Fast.\u2063 Climate Change, \u200bFlash Drought, Invasive Grass, And More Fueled It&#8221;:<\/li>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Experts say \u2062climate \u200dchange\u2064 is increasing \u2064the \u200blikelihood\u200c of these flash droughts as well \u200das \u2062other extreme weather \u2064events like what\u2019s playing out\u2063 on the island of Maui, where dozens of people have been killed and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-u-s-cities-that-struggled-with-violent-crime-in-2022\/\" title=\"5 U.S. Cities That Struggled With Violent Crime in 2022\">historic tourist town<\/a> was devastated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/environment\/story\/2023-08-11\/how-did-climate-change-influence-catastrophic-hawaii-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;How a Perfect Storm of Climate\u2062 And Weather \u200bLed to Catastrophic Maui Fire&#8221;:<\/li>\n<p>To a Californian, many of\u2062 the factors \u2064that appear to have coalesced into a catastrophic fire that killed \u2062at least\u200d 36 people on Hawaii\u2019s Maui island are all too familiar.\u200c Yet for a tropical region that traditionally sees only mild wildfire activity, the chance interaction of\u2063 terrain,\u2064 weather, \u2064building development, vegetation, and the growing force multiplier of climate change have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-hawaii-wildfires-caused-by-climate-change-media-said-before-we-learned-the-real-cause\/\" title=\"Hawaii Wildfires Initially Blamed on Climate Change, But Real Cause Revealed Later\">seemingly rewritten \u2064natural history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5-bJJsGdWKE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>: &#8220;Climate Change Fueling Maui&#8217;s \u200bDeadly Wildfires&#8221;:<\/li>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Basically, everything that we&#8217;re seeing is happening in a changed world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/wind-fanned-fires-raze-parts-hawaii-forcing-evacuations-2023-08-09\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>: &#8220;Hawaii Wildfires Kill 36 as &#8216;Apocalypse&#8217; Hits Maui Island Resort City&#8221;:<\/li>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Human-caused climate change, driven by\u200d fossil fuel use, is increasing the frequency and intensity \u2063of\u2063 such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doubling-spending-to-prepare-for-hurricanes-storms\/\" title=\"Biden Doubling Spending to Prepare for Hurricanes, Storms\">extreme weather events<\/a>, scientists say,\u200c having long warned that government \u2062officials\u200d must slash emissions\u200d to prevent climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanmaue\/status\/1691251330885562368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">angered<\/a> \u2062 climate activists by\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/climate-change-blamed-maui-wildfires\/story?id=102255714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The origin\u2062 of the fire has not yet \u200cbeen determined but it was\u2064 likely a human-caused accident boosted by weather and environmental conditions, experts \u2062say.<\/p>\n<p>A study\u200b published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publish.csiro.au\/wf\/Fulltext\/WF22155#R217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.publish.csiro.au\/wf\/Fulltext\/WF22155#R217\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">International Journal of Wildland Fire<\/a> last year \u2062found\u200c that human-caused ignition was associated with a large portion\u200b of fires in California between 1919 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers \u200dalso found\u2062 that the fire spread \u200dmore quickly because \u2062of drought \u2063and heat amplified by\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lahaina has a\u200c similar fire danger as parts\u2064 of central California, Swain said, and many tourists are not aware that\u200d the wildfire potential \u2064on the island is not rare.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alarm, resulting in a devastating loss of lives and countless missing individuals. Shocking footage and personal testimonies have exposed the undeniable role of official negligence in the Maui wildfires. The failure of a utility company to deactivate power lines sparked the fire, while an inexperienced disaster chief opted against issuing a warning. Tragic consequences ensued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":2014654,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2014653","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\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}