Posted on 05/18/2014 3:54:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Like every other self-aggrandizing environmentalist who isn’t partial to entertaining questions that could possibly challenge the green gospel, California Gov. Jerry Brown seized the opportunity to stress the all-consuming, catastrophic imminence of climate change on ABC’s This Week this morning:
It is true that there’s virtually no Republican who accepts the science that virtually is unanimous. I mean, there is no scientific question. There’s just political denial for various reasons, best known to those people who are in denial. … But, you know, we live in a world that is not just government or not just business. It’s natural, the natural systems. As we send billions and billions of tons of heat-trapping gases, we get heat and we get fires and we get what we’re seeing. So, we’ve got to gear up. We’re going to deal with nature as best we can, but humanity is on a collision course with nature and we’re just going to have to adapt to it in the best way we can.
Brown does mention one of the most ragingly responsible factors for California’s early fire season — a growing and spreading population, increased industrial and commercial activity, and straight-up arson — as well as the importance of carefully cultivating wildfire preparedness and adaptation. What he neglects to mention, as do most environmentalists, is the possibility that the environmentalist-sponsored policies that governed much of the arid West for decades created ideal conditions to dry out ecosystems. California has its own individual conditions to deal with, but as ever with the progressive set, the overwhelming cause must be climate change, about which, according to Brown, “there is no scientific question” because the science is “virtually unanimous” and Republicans are the only one who don’t absolutely accept it. …Oh, wait, check it out — I found a possible scientific question!
As firefighters struggle to contain the wind-fueled blazes, meteorologists and scientists say the fires could signal an especially active fire season for Southern California, fed by the wind, above-normal temperatures and tinder-dry vegetation.
But it’s not clear if the fires represent a new normal for expanded fire seasons, which typically start in summer, as it’s impossible to tie specific weather and fire events to climate change.
“What we’re seeing right now is just a real anomaly,” said Norman Miller, an expert in regional climate and hydrology at the University of California, Berkeley. “Whether it’s part of natural variability or climate change, we need to have a longer record of occurrences so we can construct a trend and make sense out of it.” …
Miller, for his part, has run computer models predicting that climate change could extend the traditionally October to November Santa Ana season, with increasing winds in December and January. But that still wouldn’t explain why they’ve come in May this year. …
“We’re fire prone almost every year,” he said. “It doesn’t mean we’re not linked to climate change. It’s just a more complex set of ecosystems.”
and nothing to do with California being mostly Desert
Uh, no, Jer. I don’t know that.
Actually, Jerry, these wildfires are pretty much due to people setting them. At least that is what the AP reports. You’ve had a dry year, but over time, that’s to be expected periodically and is part of being on the edge of a desert.
California and other western states have wildfires every year. They can happen any time of year. They happened before liberals decided that we have global warming. They will still happen even if Obama’s EPA institutes strict standards on power plants. They will still happen even if we institute a cap and trade system. They will still happen even if Obama parks Air Force One and doesn’t go on vacation anymore.
What would really clinch this proof, would be if any other unknown phenomena hit California, for instance, an earthquake, or a mud slide.
To gaslight an entire society you have to get them to keep silent. You have to convince people that everyone sane believes what you do. Those other people? Oh, those are fringe voices, those are crazy and/or stupid. The good people are all with us. - Sarah A. Hoyt
Gaslighting - According to Hoyt
http://accordingtohoyt.com/2014/05/16/gaslighting/
Gaslighting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3157198/posts
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Stuff it, Brown, you lying sack.
I read that the authorities have already concluded they were all due to arson,
Guess what Moonbeam means is that Climate Change makes people angry enough they resort to arson.
In other words, no one is at fault, so empty the prisons. It is not their fault.
This is the kind of academic stupidity that's rife in the U.S. right now. Mr. Miller, stroll over to the geology department at Berkeley. It won't take you long to find an expert on California's paleoclimate who'll give you a very long record of periodic droughts in the state. Some have lasted a very long time 75 to 250 years. That's real climate change and humans have nothing to do with it.
The guy that they’ve arrested....is his name Global Warming?
jerry brown is such a clueless twit. His understanding of anything leaves a lot to be desired. He is old and doesn’t have to long to live with the results of his inferior intellect and understanding. Who are the defective ones who elect such subhuman debris?
Or it could be arson.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/arson-suspect-charged-most-blazes-dying-down/nfyc2/
What is the primary cause of your brain damage, Gov. Brown?
Sadly he has no fear of not being reelected in 2014. He will coast right through and be the Governor again. At least he is DEFINITELY too old to be President because I fear that he probably could be after his 2 terms as Governor and he seems to have at least equalized the economy there.
AW GEEZ EDITH!
“Actually, Jerry, these wildfires are pretty much due to people setting them. At least that is what the AP reports. You’ve had a dry year, but over time, that’s to be expected periodically and is part of being on the edge of a desert.”
Most of California isn’t on the edge of a desert - it is a desert. We yell that at politicians every time they blather about us having a drought - “California’s a DESERT!!!!”
Using Progressive language logic bending redefinition, I guess you could redefine “arsonists” as “climate change” and get away with it with the “47% portion” of the brain dead population.
naw, i think the’re due to stray moonbeams or maybe that malathion stuff they sprayed.
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