College Republican Federation of Virginia

Okay, maybe Prometheus wasn’t formally pardoned, but he should have been, since Reid has been claiming incessantly that Global Warming was partly to blame for California’s wildfires. Besides being factually incorrect, Senator Reid is being horribly misleading, trying to use an unmitigated tragedy to advance his far-left, anti-energy agenda in the Senate.

With a House Committee hearing scheduled on how global warming has contributed to wildfire, it seems the Dems have stooped to new lows in pushing their radical climate agenda on the rest of the country. Now of course we all know that fire is caused by hot things like matches, torches, and maybe Scarlett Johansson; but last time I checked, spontaneous combustion wasn’t one of the side effects of climate change.

What is even more astonishing is that the fact that California authorities have determined the fires were the work of arsonists has not deterred Senator Reid and other Democrats from continually bringing up this global warming garbage. Reality check Senator, global warming did not cause the fires in California, period.

Now, to further demonstrate that I am smarter than Harry Reid, I will tell you exactly what this House Committee hearing will find. They will say that hot, dry conditions make wildfires more likely to occur and to be more intense when they do (duh!). They will say that climate change is responsible for the drought conditions in the southwest (discounting Summer, of course) and that the way to prevent these conditions is to reduce carbon emissions (without showing, of course, how car exhaust causes drought in arid regions).

They will, of course, ignore the fact that the American Southwest has been a dry, arid region for millenia. They will ignore the fact that wildfires are a natural phenomenon that have been occurring there for millenia. They will ignore the fact that these particular fires were started by crazy people with matches (or maybe a bikini-clad Scarlett Johansson). They will ignore the fact that worse droughts have occurred (Dust Bowl anyone) and that they occurred long before any of this global warming business came up.

None of this will deter the Incredible Senator Limpet, who will trumpet these new “findings” as further evidence that global warming is real and can only be solved by Congress. Which brings me back to poor Prometheus, who has, apparently been suffering for untold years for a crime he didn’t commit. Now that he has been exonerated, perhaps he should switch places with Senator Reid.