Members of the Cult of Climastrology have been blaming the Spring Creek wildfire, along with others, on ‘climate change’: talking points down in flame
Illegal immigrant arrested for starting wildfire in Colorado, police say
An illegal immigrant has been arrested on arson charges in connection with the Spring Creek wildfire in southern Colorado that has destroyed homes and forced evacuations.
“The initial cause of the fire was human caused,†the Costilla County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday in announcing the arrest of Jesper Joergensen, 52.
He was taken into custody without incident.
Reuters reported that Joergensen is not a U.S. citizen and will be handed over to U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement once he has faced the charges against him.
Deportation officers lodged an immigration detainer to hold Joergensen with the Costilla County Jail “following his arrest on criminal charges,†ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok told Fox News Sunday.
Joergensen is a Danish national, he said.
Of course, this will not deter CoC members from fear-mongering on anthropogenic climate change as being the cause of future doom, nor will it diminish their support for illegal aliens. They’re happy to jump into their fossil fueled vehicles to go attend rallies in support of Doing Something about ‘climate change’, usually meaning “tax Other People”, as well as illegal aliens.
Nor should we forget that so much of Colorado considers itself a sanctuary for illegal aliens.
You look at the talking points about other fires, such as the others burning in Colorado, such as Sugerloaf fire, which was started by lightning. Here’s Excitable Warmist William Anderegg in the Denver Post
Fires are white-hot signs of climate change in our backyard
Scientists have been studying fires and trying to predict fire risk for decades. The drivers of fires are complicated and there’s a lot of random chance involved in any given fire, but there are some crystal clear big-picture patterns. First, the West has been warming due to human greenhouse gas emissions coming from our cars, power plants, and other sources. Hotter temperatures mean lower snowpacks, earlier snowmelts, and drier forests – sound familiar from this year? All of these factors are associated with years with lots of big fires. We have been conducting research on the San Juan National Forest for a decade and I can tell you first-hand from walking around the crispy forest last week that the trees and fuels are drier than they have been in a long while.
Second, the West is burning a lot more than it used to and climate change is behind most of this. The number of large fires like the Burro and 416 Fires has increased four-fold since the 1970s. Previous fire suppression and past land use leading to overstocked forests is likely a part of this, but some careful research done in the past few years points to climate change as the most important driver. Scientists from the University of Idaho and Columbia University found that around half or more of the recent area burned by large western US wildfires was due to climate change.
These are all what are called “assumptions”, not scientific investigation. Notice that Anderegg fails to provide proof of these assumptions, nor proof that this is mostly/solely caused by Mankind’s carbon pollution. In fact, he mentions land use, then blows it off. Nor does he tell us that he’s given up his own use of fossil fuels, power from power plants, and other things that makes his life carbon neutral.
It’s also easier to blame the mythical ‘climate change’ rather than an illegal alien.
