As the California wildfires continue to burn in Los Angeles, the leftist media has found almost every possible way to explain what caused them, while ignoring the obvious facts. On Wednesday’s episode of The 11th Hour, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle invited University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Michael Mann to hypothesize about the fires as a direct effect of climate change and what he called an “addiction to fossil fuels.”
Ruhle opened the segment by stating that President-elect Trump “falsely blamed President Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom for the wildfires.” She failed to mention, however, that his criticism was not entirely misplaced.
California had been suffering from poor water and forest management for years and the state neglected to initiate sufficient preventative measures. A 2021 investigation by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom found that Newsom had overstated the number of treated acres with fuel breaks and prescribed burns by 690%.