FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED, If anyone is listening…
August 6, 2003, National Weather Service Honolulu via Twitter – “While Hurricane Dora passes well south with no direct impacts here, the strong pressure gradient between it and the high pressure to the north creates a threat of damaging winds and fire weather (due to ongoing dry conditions) from early Mon to Wed.”
DAYS AFTER THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNING…
August 14, 2003, Fox News, Hawaii wildfire becomes deadliest US blaze in more than a century as death toll reaches 93, expected to grow
August 14, 2003, BlazeMedia, Dem senator blames climate change for historic Maui wildfires. But here’s what the National Weather Service said.
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Jake Tapper teed up Hirono to blame climate change for the tragic event — and she took the bait.
“Experts warn that extreme disasters such as this one are only becoming more common because climate change is fueling stronger storms, hotter temperatures, more widespread droughts,” Tapper teed up.
“Yes,” Hirono agreed. “I think that we very much need to acknowledge that climate change is upon us. There are whole states, by the way, where you can’t even use the words climate change because they still have a head-in-the-sand attitude.”
BlazeMedia, August 14, 2023 – Dem senator blames climate change for historic Maui wildfires. But here’s what the National Weather Service said.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) suggested Sunday that climate change played a role in the massive Maui wildfires that killed almost 100 people and left more than 1,000 others missing.
But meteorologists and other scientific experts say not so fast.
Sadly, the Democratic Party of my youth is no more. All major players in that party are climate-change suck-up sycophants who are blind to reality.
Hawaiians were WARNED DAYS IN ADVANCE of the threat of damaging winds and fire weather. 80 sirens were left inactivated to warn citizens to flee the fire zone.
Proverbs 18:17 (my paraphrase) “Every story sounds true until you hear the other side.”
The loss of life is inexcusable. Blaming the tragic deaths and the devastation of property on climate change is both disingenuous and evidence of a failure of Hawaiian emergency officials to alert residents to prepare to evacuate.
UPDATE 8/14/2023 The New York Post | Biden slammed for silence on Maui wildfire catastrophe
UPDATE 8/15/2023, The CO2 Coalition on the science behind the fires | Hawaiian Fires: Fueled by Invasive Grasses, a Wet Spring and Human Ignition Sources
UPDATE 8/16/2023 Reuters | Maui officials defend decision not to sound sirens during wildfire
I am eternally thankful I became a Republican in 1980.
John White
Rockwall, Texas
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