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Ever since Southern California’s horrific Palisades fire began to ravage neighborhoods in January 2025, tragically incompetent governance in Los Angeles has made it difficult for the media industry to blame climate change for the inferno. A pending criminal trial will make it even harder. To be sure, the global warmist interpretation of events was always suspect. Rep. Tom McClintock (R., Calif.) wrote in the Journal in January 2025: When Juan Cabrillo dropped anchor in what is now Los Angeles’s San Pedro Bay in the autumn of 1542, he promptly named it the Bay of Smokes. Annual wildfires fanned by Santa Ana winds are nothing new in Southern California. Mr. McClintock then described ill-considered recent policies on land and water use that had made the area especially vulnerable to an uncontrollable blaze. Another possible man-made cause is about to receive much more attention. Richard Winton reports for the Los Angeles Times: The man accused of starting the Palisades fire, one of the costliest disasters in U.S. history, was motivated by a resentment for the rich and viewed Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, as a Robin Hood-like figure, according to court documents detailing evidence gathered by federal prosecutors.
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