Undeniable Proof that Alarmist Climate Scientist Michael Mann is Dishonestly Duping the Public About a Climate Crisis!

[AlleyCat]

I don't know why this jack-ass lying sack of shit is in the news... he SHOULD
have been defrocked as a climate scientist after he refused to give up his
bullshit data while constructing his Hokey Schtick graph.

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Undeniable Proof that Alarmist Climate Scientist Michael Mann is Dishonestly
Duping the Public About a Climate Crisis!

Recently the ambulance-chasing commentator for a DemocracyNow video highlighted
the tragic Lahaina fire by opening with "100 deaths and likely far more and
linked to the climate crisis" suggesting the fire was due to climate change
drought. (https://youtube.com/watch?v=8BzIeQg9R7M?)

For proof, she interviewed Michael Mann who initiated the climate crisis meme
decades ago. Accordingly, Michael Mann reinforced her fear mongering link
between fires and climate change, stating climate change increased a naturally
occurring pressure gradient causing high winds that "interacted with epic
drought". His first big lie was blaming an epic drought. My attached
illustrations present data for Maui County from the US Drought Monitor for the
recent 8 years. Unlike Mann, Data Doesn't Lie. An internet link is provided
which includes the longer time series showing how Maui's droughts oscillate
every 4 to 6 years.

Please notice Maui's droughts are also seasonal. White and yellow spaces
represent times of no drought, typically seen during the rainy season from
December to February. Extreme and Exceptional droughts (perhaps Mann's epic
drought?) are the dark reds. The website is interactive, allowing you to see
exactly what percentage of Maui County was in drought on any day for 23 years.
My redlines represent 4 dates linked to the bottom row of four boxes showing
the percentages of Maui County with each classification of drought intensity
for that day.

My blue box highlights May 10, 2023. Notice there were zero droughts and no
abnormally dry conditions. Red boxes represent similar dates as the Lahaina
fire on August 8th. Maui's rainless period, typically lasts from about May 25
to end of July, so early August is typically dry. Yet there were no Extreme or
Exceptional droughts on August 8, 2023. Only 15.9% of Maui experienced severe
drought, while 64% experienced no droughts at all. Hmmmm, so what was
Mendacious Mike talking about?

Clearly, Maui droughts are due to localized moisture conditions. Maui County
is just 1,161 square miles, about the size of the small state of Rhode Island.
When just 185 square miles experienced severe drought, you need to be
brainwashed to believe global warming and evaporation caused Mann's not so epic
drought. Furthermore, Lahaina is naturally dry, situated on the leeward side of
Maui's mountains that wring out the moisture carried by the trade winds. Only
15" of rain fall in Lahaina each year compared to 300" on the mountains to the
east.

Finally, the invasive grasslands that carried the deadly fire into Lahaina are
dead in August and only require a half day of dry conditions to become highly
flammable. It's ridiculous to blame a hundred years of CO2 global warming for
the abundance of invasive grasses that dry in one day. But Mendacious Mike
never mentioned that fact. Fortunately, several honest research papers have
warned Maui residents that they must manage the abandon sugar cane and
pineapple fields to eliminate that build-up of fire fuel by invasive grasses.
Unfortunately, governments did not act on their science.

Mann's second big lie abused his typical half-truths to suggest the climate
crisis caused a bigger pressure gradient that brought abnormally high winds.
Being the furthest Hawaiian island to the north, Maui is affected by stronger
northern trade winds that intensify as the normal high-pressure system
strengthens each summer. Maui's topography further intensifies those winds
through the mountain valleys. Strong downslope wind events reaching 80 to 100
mph every 8-12 years have "demolished buildings, overturned large power
transmission line towers, and uprooted trees." Once or twice a year strong but
more moderate winds occur. During the fire, 30 to 40 mph winds with gusts up to
67 mph fanned the flames. These winds got a special name, the Lahaina Winds.
Locals also call them "Lehua winds" after the red blossoms of the 'ohi'a lehua
tree that shower the landscape during such events. The Lehua winds have been
officially reported in the 1995 "A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands" and
in 1985 research reports. Even the http://maui-vacation-expert.comwrites about
these Violent Winds on Maui.

Ninety-eight percent of Maui's fires are started by human carelessness. Their
extent is fueled by bad landscape management. Nonetheless Mann blames natural
climate dynamics for this tragedy. It is like blaming the ocean for a man's
drowning, when his poor seamanship capsized his boat, and he didn't bring a
life jacket. But Mann will keep repeating such big lies until he gets dumb
politicians to only accept his bogus opinions. Beware people!


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