100-year-old adage: “California has four seasons—Earthquake, Drought, Fire, and Mudslide”

This post from 2015 cites a reference to the “joke” dated 1993, but I heard it from former test pilot and Malibu native Bill Bridgeman when, at 10-years-old, my mother and I visited him and his wife in Malibu Colony, and it was old even then; as both my mother and her childhood friend Jackie, Bill’s wife and LA natives themselves, attested.

Despite decades of warnings from forestry and land use professionals that the state’s laggard brush clearing was making its annual wildfire seasons increasingly worse, California’s environmentalists, in collaboration with the state’s feckless politicians, reduced brush clearing, year after year.

But that’s history, and logic, and we don’t do either of those anymore, we go for panic, headlines, and misinformation, as can be seen in this this latest bit of witless “reporting”:

Not surprisingly, California refuses to release the climate change from custody: Man accused of sparking Palisades Fire will not be released from custody.

Here’s the climate change’s booking photo from last month: