A Catholic claiming there is a Mother Earth, that is cognizant and vengeful?
Oh my...
setting aside the arson, lightning, etc:
Tweet: Mike Shellenberger
9 Sept: 2M acres of California have burned so far this year
But *4.4 - 12M* acres (!) burned each year in *pre-industrial* times
It is gross misinformation to blame climate change for our fires
(re Tweet: Gavin Newsom blaming “climate change”)
Tweet: Mike Shellenberger
Top forest scientists:
- Smoke in the air is a function of wood fuel density, not area burned
- Climate change is “not the cause of the intensity of the fires. The cause of that is fire suppression & the existing debt of wood fuel.”
11 Sept 2020
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1304111993192738816