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On 02 Jan 2022, Molly Bolt <mollythebolt666@gmail.com> posted some news:9b9eb13e-4f65-4064-b2bc-bd63e47dcf22n@googlegroups.com:

ABC is a limp dick bunch of politically correct liars.

ABC News appeared to update a headline about climate change and the Maui wildfires following some backlash on X, formerly known as Twitter, as
the original headline read, "Why climate change can't be blamed for the
Maui wildfires."

The updated headline now reads, "Why climate change can't be blamed
entirely for the Maui wildfires."

The article says that "[c]limate change may have amplified the
conditions," but notes that it can't be blamed entirely.

ABC News also quotes Hawaii Gov. Josh Green, who said, "That level of destruction, and a fire hurricane, something new to us in this age of
global warming, was the ultimate reason that so many people perished."

"Not only do ‘fire hurricanes’ not exist, but climate change can't be
blamed for the number of people who died in the wildfires," the ABC News
report reads.

The article cited Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, who said that climate change may have "nudged" the "conditions that contribute to making wildfires more severe." However, according to the report, "it is unclear how much of a role that played
in the Maui fire event."

Emily Atkin, a climate reporter and founder of the "HEATED" climate
newsletter, knocked the story as being "well technically framing," which "serves to help absolutely no one except the people trying to downplay
and deny climate change."

"ABC's story is contrarian click-bait bulls--- that exists solely to
‘debunk’ an argument about ‘causation’ that no one actually talking
about the role of climate change is making," she added.

The Daily Signal's investigative columnist Tony Kinnett called out the
headline change.

Tony Kinnett
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ABC News: Changing your article because a pack of angry baristas didn't
like the data.

Gov. Green spoke to MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart on Sunday and described
the wildfire as a "fire hurricane" with gusting 80 mph winds and
"1,000-degree heat creating fire cyclones going through buildings."

"When fire jumped from one spot to another — there were three or four
fires going on at the same time — it got seeded very quickly with those
80 mph gusted winds," he said. "And then the fire moved at essentially a
mile per minute, 60 mph down through the community."

"That’s what a fire hurricane is going to look like in the era of global warming," Green said.

ABC News did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for
comment.

incatnito727
8 hours ago

Wildfire experts pointed to poor land management. The former sugar cane
and pineapple plantations are now covered with invasive grasses which
made excellent tinder. Team that with a collision of low and high
pressure systems that got stuck, producing high winds and you have a
massive wildfire.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-news-changes-headline-amid-backlash-say ing-climate-change-cant-be-blamed-maui-wildfires

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