The fires raging in Southern California have released far more carbon dioxide than all of the state’s climate policies have reduced over the last 20 years. California was concerned with putting solar panels on 2 million houses and closing coal, natural gas, and zero-carbon dioxide emitting nuclear power plants for its climate ideology. The hundreds of billions of dollars the state and electric users in California have paid for reducing carbon dioxide emissions are all for naught because of the state’s regular wildfires.

State Farm canceled homeowners’ policies in California because, as reported by Newsweek, the “move was justified to avoid ‘financial failure’ as the frequency and severity of wildfires is growing in the Golden State, especially in at-risk zones.” Contrast this with Florida, which has not had homeowner policies canceled because of wildfire risk. Unlike California, Florida has a policy “to encourage maximum proscribed burning consistent with good forest management practices.”