Maine’s Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-CD1) says the wildfires raging in Southern California are the result of rising temperatures, stronger winds, and longer droughts — all caused by climate change.
“It’s clear that climate change is helping fuel these fires,” Pingree said in an Instagram post.
In a similar post on BlueSky, Pingree predicted that the fires will, because of climate change, “only get worse.”
Interestingly, Pingree posted a similar message at the same time on X about the LA fires but failed to identify climate change as the culprit.
Although the fires are still raging and an investigation has scarcely begun, climate change is just one of the suspects floated by amateur weather-watchers like Pingree, as well as more seasoned climate observers like Barbra Streisand.
Alternative theories have suggest that the fires may have been started intentionally by arsonists, including Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, an illegal alien from Mexico who was arrested with a blow torch near one of the active fire locations.
Some conservative commentators have even gone so far as to suggest that left-wing affirmative actions policies — such as preferential hiring for non-white women over white men within the fire department — may have contributed to the severity of the blaze.
As has now been admitted by LA Water Chief Janisse Quiñones, who earns $750,000 per year from the city, the fire hydrants that should have been used to fight the fire ran out of water due to poor water management practices.
Despite her belief in the wrathful power of climate change, Pingree keeps a home and a business on North Haven Island — a location that is, per public geological records, roughly 20 feet above sea level.
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