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California Governor Accused of Lying on Climate Change

Thomas Manning
California Governor Accused of Lying on Climate Change
speaks onstage during the 2017 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 19, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.

California Governor Jerry Brown has been accused of “noble cause corruption” by climate change scientists for attempting to connect the latest string of wildfires in the state to climate change.

“It’s a new normal,” the governor said at a press conference in August about the fires that have arisen around California this wildfire season. “California is burning,” adding, “The fires are changing, the way this fire performed; it’s not the way it usually has been. Going in lots of different directions, moving fast, even without direction.”

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