by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing in the Daily Caller
The arrest this week of a suspect for starting the fire that led to last January’s deadly Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles came as no real surprise.
Arson was hinted at as early as February. People had previously been arrested for arson or arson has been suspected in connection with recent wildfires in New Jersey, New York, California, Hawaii, Canada, Greece and other places. So when the Department of Justice announced during its press conference this week that evidence of arson developed early in the investigation, it came as no shock.
But the first and last instinct of climate hoaxers is always to blame climate change. Sen. Bernie Sanders blamed climate change in an X post that garnered 18.5 million views on Jan 8.
The New York Times, PBS News Hour, Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and Axios soon joined the bandwagon.
Leftover Biden staffers in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the activist-researchers at World Weather Attribution, whose occupation is to blame bad weather on climate change, chimed in weeks later.
