{"id":2496964,"date":"2025-10-09T11:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-blamed-climate-change-for-palisades-fire-nightmare-turns-out-a-biden-donor-climate-nut-just-got-charged-for-arson\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:52:05","slug":"media-blamed-climate-change-for-palisades-fire-nightmare-turns-out-a-biden-donor-climate-nut-just-got-charged-for-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-blamed-climate-change-for-palisades-fire-nightmare-turns-out-a-biden-donor-climate-nut-just-got-charged-for-arson\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Blamed &#8216;Climate Change&#8217; for Palisades Fire Nightmare &#8211; Turns Out a Biden Donor, Climate Nut Just Got Charged for Arson"},"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\">42<\/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%2Fmedia-blamed-climate-change-for-palisades-fire-nightmare-turns-out-a-biden-donor-climate-nut-just-got-charged-for-arson%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=2496964&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--><p>The article discusses the recent arrest of Jonathan Rinderknecht, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-liz-cheneys-coordinated-effort-to-prevent-troop-deployment-before-jan-6\/\" title=\"Inside Liz Cheney\u2019s Coordinated Effort To Prevent Troop Deployment Before Jan. 6\">left-wing arsonist<\/a> charged with maliciously starting the devastating Pacific Palisades Fire in California in January 2025. Despite earlier claims by Democrats and many media outlets blaming the wildfire on climate change and Republican policies, investigations revealed the fire originated from Rinderknecht&#8217;s purposeful actions. The fire resulted in 12 deaths and burned over 23,000 acres. The piece criticizes what it describes as a politically motivated climate change narrative promoted by Democrats and some environmentalists,arguing that many catastrophic climate predictions over past decades have failed. It features quotes from experts like former Obama governance undersecretary Steven Koonin and Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who dismiss claims of a climate emergency and label much of the climate alarmism as political propaganda aimed at pushing socialist policies and wealth redistribution rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-demand-epa-change-course-on-job-killing-green-rule\/\" title=\"Senate Republicans urge EPA to reverse &#039;job-killing&#039; green regulation\">genuine environmental concerns<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Democrats and their left-wing media lapdogs beclowned themselves after their manufactured outrage claiming &ldquo;climate change&rdquo; had caused the Pacific Palisades fire earlier this year turned out to be a big, fat lie.<\/p>\n<p>After spending months stoking climate hysteria by blaming oil companies and Republican policies for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/james-woods-encounters-girl-8-fire-says-things-will-make-grown-man-cry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California wildfires<\/a>, it turned out the blaze was started by a left-wing arsonist.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office for the Central District of California charged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/suspect-arrested-connection-devastating-la-wildfire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Rinderknecht<\/a> &mdash; a former Pacific Palisades resident now living in Florida &mdash; with maliciously starting the Palisades Fire of January 2025.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BOMBSHELL: Smoking Gun May Reveal Left-Wing Eco-Terrorism Behind Palisades Fire<\/p>\n<p>We have uncovered what appears to be a page belonging to recently charged Palisades arsonist Jonathan Rinderknecht, exposing him as a radical climate alarmist, pro-vegan extremist, and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NZYLFmHwhg\">pic.twitter.com\/NZYLFmHwhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1976083108601479526?\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));         expires=\"; expires=\" + date.toUTCString();     }     document.cookie=name + \"=\" + (value || \"\")  + expires + \"; path=\/\"; }  \/\/ Helper function to get a cookie function getVideoCookie(name) {     var nameEQ=name + \"=\";     var ca=document.cookie.split(';');     for(var i=0; i <ca.length; i++) {         var c=ca[i];         while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c=c.substring(1,c.length); 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                        }                     });                 },                 { threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed             );              observer.observe(element);         }          \/\/ Add custom styles for STN player         const style=document.createElement('style');         style.textContent=`         #videoPlayer {             min-height: 460px;             margin-bottom: 10px;         }         @media only screen and (max-width: 780px) {             #videoPlayer {                 min-height: 200px;             }         }         `;         document.head.appendChild(style);          \/\/ Add needed div for STN player         const stnDiv=document.createElement(\"div\");         \/\/ add data-stn-player attribute         stnDiv.setAttribute(\"data-stn-player\", \"s28Az7AY\");         document.getElementById(\"videoPlayer\").appendChild(stnDiv);           \/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #videoPlayer and observe it         let paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#videoPlayer\", 2);         observeElement(paragraphToObserve);     }); }  \/\/ Assign user to a group window.adUserGroup=assignSplitTestGroup();  \/\/ Example usage if (window.adUserGroup==='A') {     console.log('Running Aditude player for group A');     aditudePlayer(); } else if (window.adUserGroup==='B') {     console.log('Running Anyclip player for group B');     anyclipPlayer(); } else {     console.log('Running STN player for group C');     stnPlayer(); } <\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The complaint alleges that a single person&rsquo;s recklessness caused one of the worst fires Los Angeles has ever seen,&rdquo; Acting United States Attorney Bill Essayli said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today we are announcing the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht on a criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what became the Palisades Fire in January.<br \/> &#8304;The complaint alleges that Rinderknecht&rsquo;s started a fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year&rsquo;s Day &ndash;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UzrFa0Lmrz\">pic.twitter.com\/UzrFa0Lmrz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAttyEssayli\/status\/1975954598201536880?\">October 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Investigators said on Jan. 1, Rinderknecht &mdash; who donated to Joe Biden&rsquo;s presidential campaign &mdash; set fire to a hiking trail off Lachman Lane in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although firefighters quickly suppressed the Lachman Fire, unbeknownst to anyone, the fire continued to smolder and burn underground,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/florida-man-arrested-federal-criminal-complaint-alleging-he-maliciously-started-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Department<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On January 7, heavy winds caused the underground fire to surface and spread above ground in what became known as the Palisades Fire,&rdquo; according to the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>The Palisades Fire killed 12 people and burned more than 23,000 acres of land in the Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and the Santa Monica mountains, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/palisades-fire-investigation-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the days before he started the deadly wildfire, 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht obsessively listened to a rap song whose music video showed the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >protagonist gleefully lighting things<\/a> on fire.<\/p>\n<p>In the months preceding the Palisades Fire, Democrats frivolously stoked environmental hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>During his farewell presidential address, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/democrats-media-rushed-to-blame-deadly-california-fire-on-climate-change-it-was-actually-arson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blamed<\/a> the fire on &ldquo;climate change.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, leftist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont wrote on X: &ldquo;Climate change is real, not &lsquo;a hoax.&rsquo; Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">80,000 people told to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>Blazes 0% contained.<\/p>\n<p>Eight months since the area has seen rain.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of damage and loss is unimaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change is real, not &ldquo;a hoax.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TDyZZEPmoI\">pic.twitter.com\/TDyZZEPmoI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1877022130665083186?\">January 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Democrats and their media lapdogs have been rabidly hyping the sham narrative that climate change is an &ldquo;existential threat&rdquo; as part of a cynical move to push socialist agendas.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fiction of the media and the politicians who like to promote that notion,&rdquo; physicist Steven Koonin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/physicist-tells-tucker-carlson-climate-change-is-fiction-of-the-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Tucker Carlson<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Lest anyone dismiss Koonin as &ldquo;right-wing,&rdquo; it bears noting that he was undersecretary for science in former President Barack Obama&rsquo;s Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the nonstop environmental fearmongering from Democrats and their media minions, &ldquo;human influences&rdquo; are not responsible for natural disasters, such as hurricanes and intermittent heat waves, which are just as common today as they were in 1900.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The warmest temperatures have not gone up in the last 60 years,&rdquo; Koonin noted.<\/p>\n<p>The physicist also berated the scientific community for not pushing back at clueless politicians and the irresponsible media.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing these lies to metastasize in the public consciousness causes unnecessary panic and erodes the credibility of legitimate environmental scientists who don&rsquo;t endorse this mass hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is a failure of the scientific community not to stand up and say, &lsquo;Guys, you know, you have over-egged the custard. You really need to be much more circumspect in how you talk about this,&rsquo;&rdquo; Koonin said.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental expert Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, echoed these sentiments when he asserted there is &ldquo;zero evidence&rdquo; that we&rsquo;re in the midst of a climate emergency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Zero evidence of &ldquo;climate emergency&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Almost everywhere you look, climate change is having only small, and often benign, impacts. The impact of extreme weather events &#8213; hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts &#8213; are, if anything, declining.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YitpkwawKK\">https:\/\/t.co\/YitpkwawKK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P6Wq9ICXh0\">pic.twitter.com\/P6Wq9ICXh0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EcoSenseNow\/status\/1357375723435040768?\">February 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Like Koonin and some other environmental experts, Moore slammed climate alarmism as pseudoscientific propaganda whose goal is to redistribute wealth and usher in a new world order.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is clear that the highly exaggerated claims &hellip; are not so much out of concern for endangered species as they are a front for a radical political, social and economic &lsquo;transformation&rsquo; of our entire civilization,&rdquo; Moore said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/116\/meeting\/house\/109519\/witnesses\/HHRG-116-II13-Wstate-MooreP-20190522.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 congressional hearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As with the manufactured &lsquo;climate crisis,&rsquo; they are using the specter of mass extinction as a fear tactic to scare the public into compliance,&rdquo; Moore explained.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, a nonprofit think tank called the Competitive Enterprise Institute compiled a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wrong-Again-50-Years-of-Failed-Eco-pocalyptic-Predictions-Competitive-Enterprise-Institute.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">38-page report<\/a> chronicling the countless false predictions hyperventilated by Democrats and climate alarmists over the past 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s,&rdquo; the report asserted. &ldquo;They continue to do so today.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Actual climate change pronouncements over the years. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/j7mRTTUga3\">pic.twitter.com\/j7mRTTUga3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Eades, M.D.&#127993; (@DrEades) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrEades\/status\/556134046171144192?\">January 16, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The conclusion of the past five decades of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/john-kerry-humiliated-climate-change-prediction-turns-totally-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed apocalyptic predictions<\/a> was that the false prophets shrieking about climate change were doing so to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-press-sec-has-most-absurd-response-when-asked-about-biden-going-after-home-appliances\/\" title=\"WH Press Sec gives absurd response on Biden&#039;s stance on home appliances.\">push partisan political agendas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just as they have with the overused &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-chicago-mayor-refuses-answer-deport-illegal-beat-raped-wife-cracks-joke-instead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race card<\/a>,&rdquo; 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