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Maui Island Hawaii Wildfires Due To "Global Boiling"? An Example Of The "Climate Emergency"?

The Lahaina city of Maui, Hawaii has been decimated by large wildfires over the past week. The image below (image source) shows the primary area of Maui that has suffered.

While arsonists are suspected to have contributed to fire's devastation, there are certain regional weather conditions that make the Hawaiian Islands a geographic area that is very prone to wildfires.

This article about the recent fires provides a good background on the natural conditions that make Maui very susceptible to fire outbreaks.

Unfortunately, there are those who are claiming that global warming (aka "boiling") and climate change are the cause of the fires. The claims are based on the hypothesis that the growth of atmospheric CO2 levels, due to human combustion of fossil fuels, are the direct cause of all warming, weather events and climate change.

Many go as far as to claim that the world is in a "climate emergency," and wildfires are an example of that.

As with all these loud and assertive anti-science claims about global warming, atmospheric CO2 did not produce an environment of large warming that would produce Maui extreme temperature conditions, thus causing the Maui fires.

This is factually proven using NOAA empirical scientific evidence, which reveals that the Maui Island temperatures have actually been on a declining trend over the past 10+ years. (see below chart).

The correlation of Maui's temperatures and atmospheric CO2 growth is actually negative over those 10 years, which totally falsifies the climate alarmists' hypothesis.

Conclusions: It's another case of 'those stubborn facts.' And by the way, there is no "climate emergency" and "global boiling" is pure propaganda nonsense.

Part #2 of Maui fire "climate change" articles.

Additional regional and global temperature charts.

Notes: Excel used for the temperature anomaly plot & calculations. Source of Hawaiian regional temp anomalies & atmospheric CO2 levels.

NOAA's Empirical Refutation of The UN's "Global Boiling" Propaganda

The United Nation's bureaucracy has unfortunately been a leading source of climate change misinformation and propaganda. The most recent example is the wildly false assertion by the UN secretary general, António Guterres, that the world has reached an era of "global boiling".

First, the global temperature currently hovers around 14.14 degrees Celsius, which is essentially 86 degrees below the UN's boiling propaganda statement.

Second, NOAA has just published the July USCRN temperature results that documents that the average temperature for July 2023 was significantly below the 2012 July temperature - below by +0.62°C. (Description of the USCRN gold-standard weather/climate reporting network.)

Not only is the July 2020 temperature below the July 2012 temp, the chart reveals that U.S. warming has actually experienced a declining trend for an extended period.

That very slight cooling trend is now stretching from the beginning of June 2011 through the end of July 2023. That's a total of 146 months (12+ years).

And that 12+ years consists of a correlation between monthly atmospheric CO2 levels and U.S. temperatures of -0.0093.

Yes, a negative correlation, which is forbidden to be spoken of by the climate narrative community.

Why? Because it totally contradicts the alarmist agenda that CO2 causes global warming (and now "global boiling") that the UN and others propagandize.

So, the global temperature is below '"boiling" by 86 degrees and NOAA's U.S. temperature data confirms a long-lasting cooling span - in combo, a complete refutation of the UN claims and all the others that report that anti-science nonsense.

Additional regional and global temperature charts.

Note: Source of USCRN temperature data. Excel used to calculate/plot chart data.