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🗓️ 13 September 2023
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Whenever there is a major weather event, such as the wildfires in Hawaii in August, leftists are quick to blame climate change and push “green” policy. But this approach is fraught with problems. Heritage’s Director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and the Environment, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, explains.
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Daily Signal Reporting on the Maui Wildfires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0yJOtwxrBY
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0:32.4 | From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. |
0:43.4 | The United States. Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. A little over a month ago, the world was moved by the tragedy that took place in the |
0:48.4 | town of Lahaina, on the island of Maui, in the state of Hawaii. |
0:52.9 | High winds and aging electrical infrastructure contributed to |
0:56.3 | wildfires that claimed the lives of at least 115 people. Many stories have emerged in the wake of |
1:03.6 | that event, many of them centering around the question of why this happened. There are many pieces of |
1:09.6 | that puzzle, from government incompetence to infrastructure management, |
1:13.3 | to communication systems, to weather, to agriculture. |
1:17.2 | But the one that seemed to get a disproportionate amount of play in the media? |
1:21.7 | Climate change. |
1:23.5 | It seems that that is the constant refrain that follows any extreme weather event, floods, |
1:29.3 | hurricanes, and heat waves. |
1:32.3 | But the climate change narrative is fraught with problems. |
1:35.3 | And when it comes to public policy, those problems bring real consequences. |
1:40.3 | Today, on Heritage Explains, we're talking about extreme weather and climate. |
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