Gavin Newsom smirks that the debate is over; everyone agrees with him that the fires ravaging the West Coast were caused by climate change, which has always existed but can be arrested if we turn over enough money and power to Big Government. The liberal media establishment backs him up. However, those without a power-grabbing agenda don’t — including environmentalist Michael Shellenberger. The actual culprits are bad policy and poor forest management:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.