Bad forest management worsens wildfires.
No, criminally criminalizing the removal of excess flammable biomass worsens wildfires.
What happens when we have an unusually cold winter and we are back to “Climate Change”? How does that affect forest fires?
The Sahara shrinks during times of warming becomes the world gets wetter when its warmer.
Oddly enough, they’ve only been fighting forest fires for the past century... Previous to that nobody even bothered and the forest fires just extinguished naturally.
I blame the Russians. If TV hasn’t lied to me, they are to blame for everything.
Tell me how bringing in 30 million Illegals helped reduce global warming?
The 30M lived a low carbon 3rd world life prior to arriving.
Hmmmm....no. Glo-Bull warming does no such thing.
It’s incompetent people placed into forestry management positions that would rather promote the visionary, brain-dead ,liberal ideas, instead of doing their damn jobs that worsens wildfires.
These people are stupid.
Bad forest management that cuts back on logging, on cutting down the dead trees and clearing the dry underbrush are the worst manageable human offenses that have worsened the problems of wild fires. Were the forests actively managed better the wild fires that do occur, no matter their reason, would be shorter lived, sooner contained and smaller overall.
It would also help if in addition to flood insurance that is required for many homeowners, some homeowners had to obtain additional “wild fire” insurance in developments expansively encroaching on areas with histories of wild fires. It would dissuade many buyers from participating in those developments and reduce the loss of homes when wild fires do occur.
I have friends I love dearly who have a home in a forested mountain area with some trees as close as a foot or two from their house. I can, sorrowfully imagine how easily they could lose their home if a major fire hit their area. I pray that is never going to happen, but I recognize the potential.
I heard it was [because]of straws....and balloons.
Wait...
I thought CO2 caused Global Warming...
Trees are made of mostly carbon...
Forests act as a type of carbon sink...
When forests burn they release all that CO2 back into the atmosphere.
Which begs the question — Are all these severely overgrown forests that cannot be controlled when they burn causing Global Warming?
Things that make you go WTH?!?!??
AP analysis is now considered science?
Global Warming is a good excuse to cover up for bad forest management practices, allowing more psychos on the streets, and building houses in high fire danger areas.
The liberals can’t handle the fact they have aided and abetted the current wildfire problem. Global Warming allows them to sleep without any sense of guilt.
Today is the 118th anniversary of the Great Fire of 1910 which, alone, was over 3,000,000 acres or 4700 square miles. I guess climate change was alive and well even then.
Much of what we are seeing with respect to wildfires has absolutely nothing to do with what most people are talking about. It may largely be the result of a shift in “philosophy”. I recently came across an article (unfortunately posted at fivethirtyeight.com) entitled “Wildfires in the U.S. are getting bigger.” My apologies, as I do not know how to link to FreeRepublic.
The summary version of the story is that while over the past 30 years the number of wildfires in the U.S. has remained constant, or maybe even slightly declined, the total acreage burned on an annual basis has more than quadrupled. One could reasonably imagine that the number of people involved/time/expense necessary to extinguish has thus similarly quadrupled. Perhaps accidentally, the article includes this quote:
“Fire managers began to change their philosophy and allow some fires to burn in a more natural way in the 1970s, said Bill Gabbert, a former fire management officer and the current managing editor of Wildfire Today. Over the last 15 or 20 years, that’s become more of the norm. In the past, every little fire that started got put out before it burned much land. Today, one fire might be allowed to eat up much more built-up kindling. In addition, Collins told me, managers are now less likely to try to contain those fires to be as small as possible. Instead, there’s more of a wait and see approach, both because of the knowledge that the forests need to burn and because of an increased emphasis on protecting firefighters’ lives. It’s better to let the fire burn more acreage than risk lives unnecessarily.”
Oh, wait!
King CloneA ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old. Lucerne Valley, California
Gee, I wonder how long desert/drought conditions have existed in California?
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Well it does because they used to be called Forest Fires ,LOL
