Some California residents may be forced to move due to climate change, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) claimed Thursday during the Democrat debate in Los Angeles, California.
The 2020 presidential candidate’s statement was in response to a question from Politico‘s Tim Alberta, who asked if she supported a federal program to subsidize the relocation of people away from areas such as Miami, Florida, and Paradise, California.
“Because we know these places are going to be hit time and time again,” Alberta stated, referring to the so-called threat of climate change.
“Well, I very much hope we’re not going to have to relocate entire cities, but we will probably have to relocate some individual residents,” Klobuchar said.
She continued:
And the problem right now is that this climate change is an existential crisis, and you are seeing it here in California with the fires that you just had. You saw it in northern California, was mentioned, with Paradise, and the most moving video from that to me was the 30-second video of that dad, driving his little girl through the lapping fires with the neighborhood burning behind him and singing to her to calm her down. We cannot wait to act.
There’s an Ojibwe saying that “great leaders make decisions, not for this generation but seven generations from now.” This president doesn’t keep his decisions for seven minutes, so what I think we need to do, get back into the international climate change agreement. I will do that on day one.
However, a 2017 study published by the National Academy of Sciences said that “Public dialog and ongoing research have focused on increasing wildfire risk because of climate warming, overlooking the direct role that people play in igniting wildfires and increasing fire activity.”
“Human-started wildfires accounted for 84% of all wildfires, tripled the length of the fire season, dominated an area seven times greater than that affected by lightning fires, and were responsible for nearly half of all area burned.”
November 3, President Donald Trump criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom for his poor management of the state’s recent fires.
“I told him from the first day we met that he must ‘clean’ his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him. Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers,” the president tweeted.
Additionally, Breitbart News’s Joel B. Pollak wrote, “There is no scientific link between the current fires and climate change.”
“Scientists have said that a warmer California could be more susceptible to fire in the future, but recent fires are partly a product of conditions already endemic to California, and wind patterns that have little to do with climate change,” he concluded.
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She is correct insofar as the policies Californian politicians plan to implement to combat the non-existent “climate emergency” will make the state impossible to live in for most people. Only the super-rich will be able to cope with the costs of the mandated changes – and even they will become frustrated as these costs and the associated inconveniences mount.
I wish this loose nut would relocate to a padded cell and a straight jacket
No, what will drive Californians to move east is the left-wing Democrats who run California and use the mirage of “Climate Change” to destroy the state. And they are doing a wonderful job of it so far.
In essence, climate change is a major contributing factor to Californians relocating, as I and many of my friends are discussing where we plan to retire outside of the sunny golden state.
It’s the political climate that has changed in California but it’s been going on for decades and may well be at the “tipping point”.
I went to high school in California and a year ago my high school best friend moved from California to Texas. He said that he would rather have stayed in California but the politics had become horrendous. Now consider that one third of the nation’s homeless live in California. The liberal policies being implemented are not going to force these people to leave. California’s policies will not drive many of the rich out, will do nothing to drive out the homeless, but right now are driving out the middle class. This will impact the ability of the state to function. It is no wonder that I’m always being contacted by recruiters offing jobs in California.
The only with more time on their hands is u! Natural climate is happening, slowly, wat say u, o bright one, wats the cause and the solution. One of the solutions is to expose their false claims and hipocracy whenever encountered. Grow a brain
Doesn’t it strike u as a little odd that Al Gore, of all people just bought a million dollar home in Ca. THINK,good human, THINK!!
Looks like another climate change nut has fallen from the green nut tree just where do these screwballs come from?
For all the huffin’ and puffin’ on both sides of this issue, the “I ain’t got nothin’ better to do than troll climate change advocates” folks keep cutting off their noses to make their faces look better.
We don’t believe anthropogenic climate change is happening. That’s kind of obvious. But warming is happening and climate is changing. So while misinformed and misdirected people are screaming “the sky is falling and it’s our fault”, the climate deniers are fiddlin’ while California burns.
Natural cycle climate change is real. Sea-level rise is sea-level rise. Some habitat will change, and people will have to move. That part ain’t goin’ away, just because Amy and Greta have been miseducated. These anti-climate change, orgiastic pile-on’s, trashing anyone who moves, are more foolish than the targets of your contempt.
Private Citizen, you right. The climate is changing, always has, and always will. This is natural. The same is true with sea levels which are rising due to natural events and today are doing so at a slower rate than between 1900 and 1950. One issue that amazes about the climate change movement is the constant claims that were are seeing the impact of the warming right now. Most sources put it at about one degree C. The natural variation in temperatures from one year to the next can be that large. If only one degree is enough to cause dramatic impacts, how come we haven’t always seen such impacts as the temperature varied year to year?