CBS News Says Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Of Climate Change

Posted • January 16, 2025: CBS News seems a little slow on the uptake, but that's to be expected from the legacy media. People on social media, in particular X, have already demonstrated that the wildfires that have devasted Los Angeles weren't caused by "climate change," unless by climate change they mean an illegal immigrant running around with a blowtorch setting fires. Gov. Gavin Newsom thinks the big problem isn't empty reservoirs or uncleared brush, but disinformation, to the point where his office has already set up a website allegedly to fight misinformation about the fires. Newsom knows his incompetence and malfeasance are hurting his 2028 presidential aspirations. But back to climate change. CBS News missed the memo that no one's buying that these wildfires, or other natural disasters, are the result of climate change. If all we had were the major broadcast and cable news networks, that's all we'd be hearing, and we'd be expected to buy it.

CBS News @CBSNews: “As disasters linked to climate change become more frequent, homeowners across the U.S. are paying the price through skyrocketing insurance costs — and not only in states like Florida and California that are considered most vulnerable to global warming.” -- Yes that climate change sucked the water right out of those fire hydrants. These fires were caused by a combo of arson and mismanagement of water supply and terrain. Guess what's hurting California? It's not climate change. It's climate change policies. It's prioritizing smelt over human lives. -- "Disasters linked to climate change": That's weasely language for "we can't make any connections to climate change for any single disaster, but we really want to virtue signal our connection to those who are making the unsubstantiated claims of connections." -- It was arson, and everyone knows this, jackasses. Arson and government negligence is not climate change. (…)

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Rumble: Wildfires Completely Devastated Some Communities In Los Angeles
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CBS News: As climate risks mount, homeowners far beyond California face soaring insurance bills
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-fires-california-insurance-rates-dropped-coverage-us/