Climate alarmist Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) held court on Thursday's confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin During the hearing, a series of wild climate change claims were made regarding the California wildfires. [emphasis, links added]
Markey, a co-author of AOC's far-left Green New Deal, believes climate change is to blame for wildfires in Los Angeles and September's hurricanes that ravaged the Southeast.
“Are you seeing the fires in Los Angeles right now? Are you seeing the storms rolling through Georgia and North Carolina? The threat of climate change is not gone!” Markey said during Zeldin's appearance before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee .
“Are you seeing the fires in Los Angeles now? Are you seeing the storms rolling through Georgia and North Carolina? The threat of climate change is not gone.”
Sen. Markey blamed the Los Angeles fires and recent hurricanes on climate change, just as Biden did in his final speech… pic.twitter.com/KG7m1dXtE4
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 16, 2025
Markey, the ranking Democrat on the congressional committee, later asked Zeldin if he thought there was any danger to Americans facing such a crisis.
“Are they in danger? Of course, to those whose homes were burned,” Zeldin answered.
“Then you have an obligation to solve this problem!” an angry Marky retorted. “Go do something! I didn't hear you think your job at the EPA was to do something about this.
“We saw firefighters rushing toward the flames of Los Angeles, The EPA has a responsibility to control the embers of climate change!exclaimed the Massachusetts Democrat.
“Are you going to fan the flames of destruction through the demands of the fossil fuel industry, and now you refuse to actually hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the rapid warming of the country we live in?!” Markey further asked Zeldin.
“The EPA should be an environmental watchdog, not a fossil fuel stooge!” Markey was furious.
Markey has previously claimed that wildfires are “what the climate emergency looks like” and a preview of “the atrocities to come” from the Trump administration. “More fires, more climate disaster, more deaths,” Markey tweeted.
Trump was bought by oil giants for $1 billion. Just payback for killing the IRA and the Green New Deal. We know what to expect. More fires, more climate disasters, more deaths. The Los Angeles fires were a preview of the atrocities to come.
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) January 11, 2025
Los Angeles' growing crisis can be traced to the incompetence of local leaders and frenzied DEI officials who failed to replenish dry hydrants, repair defunct reservoirs, and prevent drying out vegetation that made fires more deadly. build buildings on the land.
Before the fatal fire broke out, California Governor Gavin Newsom cut the state's fire protection budget by more than $100 million.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen BassShe was chatting at an embassy cocktail party in Ghana when her city burned, even though she knew days before her escape that the weather was forecast to intensify, Cut funding to the city's fire department by nearly $18 million.
Newsweek reported that Newsom signed millions of dollars in budget cuts in June. Take away critical funding from seven states’ Wildfire and Forest Resilience programs:
Another $4 million was cut from the Forest Heritage Program, which is designed to encourage good management practices among landowners, while $28 million was cut from funding provided to several state nature reserves to improve wildfire resilience.
An additional $8 million comes from monitoring and research expenditures provided primarily to CAL FIRE and the University of California, while $3 million is removed from Interagency Forest Data Center funds. Funding for a home-hardening pilot program designed to make homes more resilient to wildfires has been cut by $12 million.
Under Bass, the city of Los Angeles instead earmarked thousands of tax dollars for progressive programsincluding the Midnight Stroll Trans Cafe, the Los Angeles Gay Men’s Chorus and Social Justice Arts Worker Investments.
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