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Dem senator blames climate change for historic Maui wildfires. But here's what the National Weather Service said.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) suggested Sunday that climate change played a role in the massive Maui wildfires that killed almost 100 people and left more than 1,000 others missing.
But meteorologists and other scientific experts say not so fast.
What did Hirono say?
On CNN's "State of the Union," host Jake Tapper teed up Hirono to blame climate change for the tragic event — and she took the bait.
"Experts warn that extreme disasters such as this one are only becoming more common because climate change is fueling stronger storms, hotter temperatures, more widespread droughts," Tapper teed up.
"Yes," Hirono agreed. "I think that we very much need to acknowledge that climate change is upon us. There are whole states, by the way, where you can't even use the words climate change because they still have a head-in-the-sand attitude."
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But what is really behind it?
Extreme weather events happen all the time, often with devastating and tragic consequences for human life. This is no exception.
Last Sunday, the National Weather Service warned that a high-pressure system north of the Hawaiian islands, combined with a strong low-pressure cyclone in category 4 Hurricane Dora passing to the south of the islands, would create a "strong pressure gradient" over Hawaii.
Translation: it's going to be warm and dry, and there will be a strong chance of damaging winds. That means the potential for wildfires will be higher than normal.
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A similar extreme meteorological event struck Portugal in 2017.
Moreover, invasive plant species may have made the Hawaiian land susceptible to wildfires, USA Today reported:
Wildfires have quadrupled in Hawaii in recent decades, and many scientists say the culprit is unmanaged, nonnative grasslands planted by plantations and ranchers and others unfamiliar with the island's native ecosystems. The grass is dry and prone to fires.
“There is no doubt that fire-prone grasses have invaded drier Hawaiian ecosystems and brought larger, more intense fires,” said Peter Vitousek, a professor of earth sciences at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
The island of Maui, specifically, is also battling drought conditions, which exacerbated the problem with wind and a lack of moisture.
"The most destructive fires usually occur during drought. If an area falls into drought quickly, that means there is a longer window of time for fires to occur," atmospheric scientist Jason Otkin told the Associated Press.
Climate alarmists will still blame climate change for the wildfires. They argue extreme weather events are happening more frequently than ever before. But for a planet that is purportedly billions of years old, combined with the fact that weather records have been reliably maintained for less than 200 years, that's a difficult argument to prove.
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President Joe Biden isn't only taking flack from Republicans over his handling of the border crisis, but now he is receiving condemnation from his own party. This week there were three Democratic senators who were critical of the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis at the southern border.
Two Democratic senators from the border state of Arizona chastised Biden for not doing enough to remedy the migrant surge.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) reacted on Wednesday to Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress by saying, "While I share President Biden's urgency in fixing our broken immigration system, what I didn't hear tonight was a plan to address the immediate crisis at the border, and I will continue holding this administration accountable to deliver the resources and staffing necessary for a humane, orderly process as we work to improve border security, support local economies, and fix our immigration system."
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) echoed Kelly's sentiment that Biden has not done enough to address the historic surge at the U.S. southern border.
"Sen. Sinema has been clear that she – along with Sen. Kelly – wants to see more action from the administration to address the border crisis and support Arizona border communities. She's spoken directly with administration officials on this," Sinema's office told Fox News.
There was enough blame for the border crisis to go around the Biden administration. Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) went after Vice President Kamala Harris, who was tapped by Biden on March 23 to head the administration's response to the massive migrant surge. As Newsweek noted, Harris has been MIA at the southern border but has "made trips to New Hampshire and other states to promote the administration's jobs and infrastructure plan and its coronavirus response, with most of her work on the matter occurring in the form of roundtable discussions with experts and meetings with regional leaders."
During a PBS interview, Hirono was asked by host Margaret Hoover, "Will you urge Vice President Harris, who has been tasked with handling this crisis, to visit the border, as she hasn't yet been there?"
Hirono responded that she would "of course" urge Harris to visit the border.
The progressive senator said she "didn't know" why the vice president failed to visit the border during the crisis.
"We have a few other things to deal with, like the pandemic and everything else, so I'm not going to point fingers at her in the sense of — I hope that she will go down to the border," Hirono said during her appearance on "Firing Line with Margaret Hoover." "I hope that we can have a comprehensive, 'whole of government' approach to what we need to do to have a humane immigration system."
"I would call it a crisis," Hirono admitted about that the current migrant surge at the border.
"We know what is happening," the lawmaker continued. "So whatever you call it, we're going to need to deal with it. We're going to need to address it in a humane way."
Last month, Biden admitted that there is a "crisis" on the southern border, but his administration quickly walked back the president's remarks by saying the word "crisis" is not reflective of the "administration's official position," but rather the situation is a "challenge."
Despite the historic flood of migrants across the southern border, the Biden administration is reportedly planning to increase the number of illegal immigrants released into the U.S.
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