This “climate expert” is wrong.

Somone should tell NASA's Dr. Peter Kalmus that fossil fuel companies did not cause the fires engulfing neighborhoods in Los Angeles County this week. That's not how this works.

The most likely culprit — based on compelling new evidence I have seen from meteorologist Dr. Cliff Mass of the University of Washington — are failed power transmission lines.

🔗The Palisades fire started around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. We can see that on the GOES visible satellite imagery (left). Dr. Mass was able to pinpoint that location to be just east of the Summit Community. And, lo and behold, there are powerlines at that location attached to wooden poles.

What's more, the Ting power sensor network noted disturbances in that power system just before the fire broke out on Tuesday morning.

Southern California Edison will have a lot of questions to answer in the coming weeks.

Should this be true, the fire would not have occurred had the lines been de-energized prior to the high wind event which began on Tuesday. So, no, fossil fuels or climate change isn't the root cause of the fires.