The devastating fires that destroyed the beautiful island of Maui have been a heartbreaking tragedy for thousands of residents.
Not to mention these fires being one of the most deadly in history, with thousands of innocents killed and many more displaced from where their homes once stood.
Now, at long last, officials in Maui County have identified the cause of these catastrophic wildfires and it completely debunks the Democrats’ climate change narrative.
As Fox News reported, officials investigating the fires determined that they were caused by downed power lines and failures by the state’s main power utility company – Hawaii Electric Company (HECO).
In response to this negligence, Maui County has filed a lawsuit against HECO and its subsidiaries for failing to properly power down live electrical equipment amid a red flag windstorm earlier this month.
The suit alleges that HECO’s energized and downed power lines ignited dry fuel such as grass and brush, causing several fires on August 8th.
It also claims that HECO had an obligation to maintain their electrical equipment, ensuring that vegetation was not allowed to come into contact with overhead power lines or other electric devices.
Hawaii Governor Josh Green had gone on CBS’s “Face the Nation” shortly after the fires began spreading and blamed them on climate change while White House clean energy “czar” John Podesta sought to use this tragedy as an opportunity to tout his own Inflation Reduction Act as a solution.
Far-left Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush demanded Joe Biden declare a climate emergency while Illinois Senator Dick Durbin claimed these events were evidence of our failure to adequately address global warming.
However, now that we know what actually caused these terrible fires it is clear how little credibility any of these claims had in reality.
Even if one believes in climate change as an overarching trend across history it is plain wrong for anyone to suggest it was directly responsible for what happened here when there are far simpler explanations available which do not require any political grandstanding or agenda pushing.