Expect Nothing And Worse From Shitstain; It's A Four-Year Big Oil Banquet, And Climate Collapse Doesn't Even Exist
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“Gavin Newscum should resign,” the incoming president posted on Truth Social about Gavin Newsom, California’s governor. “This is all his fault!!!” Trump also reposted a doctored image of the famous Hollywood sign, flames flaring in the background, that had been changed to “Trump was right.” The disaster has unfolded to the backdrop of a new Trumpian era of political knife fights, unleashed conspiracy theories and the exaltation of a fossil fuel industry that has helped ferment climate-driven disasters.
In Washington DC this week, Republicans threatened to withhold unconditional disaster aid for California, an echo of Trump’s first term where he allegedly halted assistance for states he felt were politically hostile to him. Meanwhile, Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, vowed in a nomination hearing to boost oil and gas production because “there isn’t dirty energy and clean energy”. Wright, who said he accepts climate change is real, came under some pressure for previously saying that “wildfires are just hype.” Fossil fuel executives have swooned at the thought of a second Trump term, having pushed tens of millions of dollars to his election campaign after he promised to delete a slew of environmental regulations and subject more of America’s land and waters to drilling.
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Trump calling the climate crisis a “giant hoax” and dwelling upon political conflict and conspiracies after disasters such as fires and hurricanes can obscure how a fevered planet is increasingly overwhelming efforts to contain its destruction, experts say. Even wealthy places like California, which has some of the most firefighting resources in the world, is struggling to keep pace. When the fire hoses ran dry in Los Angeles, different funding decisions and the availability of a shuttered reservoir could have made some difference to save homes. But the scale of the fires simply obliterated a system designed to battle one or two urban house fires, rather than a forest-scale conflagration.
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Difficult decisions around where Americans are able to live in a changed climate will likely to be accelerated by an escalating insurance crisis that is pushing up premiums in some of the country’s most vulnerable areas. Reconstruction of ruined places, meanwhile, will be made more expensive by any requirements to make homes more fire- and storm-proof, Keenan said, while Trump’s attempts to crack down on immigration may push up the cost of labor as immigrants are often the people doing reconstruction work. But even amid these convulsions, the climate crisis is retreating from the national conversation. Large institutions such as banks are scaling back their environmental commitments and the federal government is set to follow Florida’s lead by burying mere mention of global heating. Globally, climate has fallen down the agenda even as countries miss emissions reduction goals and costs and disasters pile up. The past year was, yet again, the hottest ever recorded.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/trump-climate-change-la-fires
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