Man, this whole global warming thing is really getting out of hand lately, especially when it comes to wildfires. For instance, this California blaze back in 2022 — totally caused by climate change or whatever they're calling it these days.
Yeah, no.
Not global warming at all.
And I honestly wonder how many of these "wildfires," "caused by global warming" have been started this way.
Edward Fredrick Wackerman of Mariposa, Calif., was busted Friday on suspicion of arson for allegedly igniting the Oak Fire, which destroyed 127 homes, caused thousands of people to evacuate and ravaged nearly 20,000 acres of vegetation in July 2022.
The suspect is facing charges of suspicion of aggravated arson, arson that causes great bodily injury and arson causing damage or destruction of inhabited structures, the California Department of Forestry said.
It isn't clear how Wackerman may have started the blaze or what finally led to his arrest. Mariposa County District Attorney Walter Wall said a Tuesday press conference on the case is planned.
Here's what that fire looked like:
At the height of the massive blaze, about 6,000 people living in the nearby mountain communities were ordered by officials to flee their homes.
While no one was killed in the ginormous inferno, the fire injured three firefighters, scorched 30 square miles of land and destroyed 127 homes and 66 outbuildings.
At the time, smoke from the fire drifted more than 200 miles, reaching Lake Tahoe, parts of Nevada and the San Francisco Bay Area.
California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years from what scientists say is the result of climate change. Officially initially believed that's what caused the Oak Fire.
So apparently climate change is some 71-year-old man lighting a match and tossing it into the brush at Yosemite. Sounds about right, though the match thing I made up.
I cannot wait to see what Governor Newsom has to say about this.
Maybe he'll go ahead and outlaw elderly people in order to fight climate change.
Hey, it could work!
Seriously though, here we have yet another debunked climate change myth, and I'd be willing to bet this isn't the first or last time a climate change-caused wildfire was actually started by an arsonist.
