<p>Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) blamed climate change for the deadly fire that killed dozens of people in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hawaii">Hawaii</a> last week, adding that those who don&#8217;t believe in it have a &#8220;head-in-the-sand attitude&#8221;.</p>
<p>Hirono made the remarks during a Sunday CNN interview with Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; after the fire in Maui last week killed at least 93 — a number that is expected to continue rising.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that we very much need to acknowledge that climate change is upon us,&#8221; Hirono claimed. &#8220;There are whole states, by the way, Jake, where you can&#8217;t even use the words climate change because they still have a head-in-the-sand attitude.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/09/how-did-the-maui-fires-start-human-habitation-may-be-partly-to-blame/70559241007/#">USA Today</a> reported last week that &#8220;many scientists&#8221; say that the culprit behind the quadrupling of fires in Hawaii in recent decades is &#8220;unmanaged, nonnative grasslands planted by plantations and ranchers and others unfamiliar with the island&#8217;s native ecosystems. The grass is dry and prone to fires.&#8221;</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="39">“There is no doubt that fire-prone grasses have invaded drier Hawaiian ecosystems and brought larger, more intense fires,” said Peter Vitousek, a professor at Stanford University.</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="39">Officials are unsure of what sparked the fires but said that low humidity and high winds — fueled by a Category 4 hurricane south of the islands — greatly contributed to their rapid spread.</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="86">The report noted that the non-profit group Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization says on its website that &#8220;about 0.5% of Hawaii&#8217;s total land area burns each year, equal to or greater than the proportion burned of any other US state&#8221; and that &#8220;over 98% of wildfires are human-caused.&#8221;</p>
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