Posted on 08/09/2018 10:31:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CALIFORNIA, THE nation’s most populous state and the world’s fifth-largest economy, is on fire. In a state already known for monster conflagrations, the past month has been unusually destructive. The Mendocino Complex fire north of San Francisco is now officially the largest in California’s history, having burned an area about the size of Los Angeles, and it is just one of the major blazes the state has had to face since last October.
As much as the president might prefer to point fingers elsewhere, it is impossible to talk about California’s blazes without considering the role of climate change. Four of the five largest conflagrations the state has had to battle have come since 2012, and that is probably no mere coincidence. Droughts, storms and heat waves have occurred throughout history, of course, and it is hard to attribute any single event to climate change. But scientists have concluded that climate change has increased the frequency of extreme weather and will continue to do so.
A 2016 study concluded that human-caused climate change is responsible for about half the additional drying that researchers have found since the 1970s, resulting in a doubling of the area forest fires have consumed since 1984. Climate change may also increase lightning strikes, which are a major source of wildfires, and generate the high winds that can drive big blazes. Meanwhile, earlier springtime melting means that the land has more time to dry out over the warmer months. Global warming will increasingly prime the environment for spectacular disasters.
So much of the U.S. Forest Service’s budget has gone to firefighting that too little has been left for care and restoration. Lawmakers should examine the many ways they can help prevent another summer like this one - or worse.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Keep trying what doesn’t work is the definition for......
more fuel for the environmentalist fires. Don’t play with matches!!
“We won’t stop California’s wildfires if we don’t talk about climate change”
Because “talking” about doing something someday stops fires...
This latest fire is a result of a kook arsonist.
It has nothing to do with AGW....................
It’s weather and shitty forest husbandry, ya barking loons.
"...enter Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, who schooled him good."
"Allow me to help YOU, Mr. Schiff. Here is a link to December USDA report showing a record 129 million dead trees in California, citing forest mismanagement for fires. Your own California state fire office signed on to it.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd566303.pdf …"
They used to cut fire breaks and do controlled burns but they stopped doing that because it was harmful to the environment. Like an uncontrolled wildfire is good for the environment. There is nothing worse for the environment than an environmentalist.
Basically, if you just hired up kids every summer (age 16-to-20) to handle some brush work, under a Ranger-’Bob’ kind of character....then all this fancy fire work wouldn’t be necessary.
People fail to see that going back for the past dozen decades....all this kinda repeats itself unless you go and do some brush work.
Create the problem by prohibiting the removal of excess flammable biomass, then blame global warming when the disaster we engineered occurs.
Check.
Four of the five largest conflagrations the state has had to battle have come since 2012, and that is probably no mere coincidence.
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Of course not. The state’s own crooked policies are causing it.
ITS A F***IN DESERT!!
And a kook arsonist.
I bet it really annoys the enviros that the biggest fire in California history is an arson fire.............
So how is sending trillions to Africa going to solve CA fire problem?
We can’t keep doing the GOP-e job asking these simple questions.
You will never stop California’s wildfires because THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WILDFIRES IN CALIFORNIA!!
A 2016 study concluded that human-caused climate change is responsible for about half the additional drying that researchers have found since the 1970s, resulting in a doubling of the area forest fires have consumed since 1984.
There is no man made climate change
There is however natural changes in the climate over the centuries. Long before man existed, earth’s climate changed. There is proof of that fact.
As recently as 10,000 years ago, parts of California was buried under a glacier. The earth warming up (global warming) caused the ice to melt and the glacier to recede helping to create the Yosemite Valley.
https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/glaciers.htm
It’s weather and shitty forest husbandry
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The lack of common sense in the regulated forest husbandry thanks to the EPA is the biggest criminal act of the EPA. Brush fires don’t have fuel when the brush is controlled.
His routines still make me laugh.
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