Posted on 07/22/2014 8:14:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama says a wildfire that has burned nearly 400 square miles in the north-central part of Washington state, along with blazes in other Western areas, can be attributed to climate change.
Obama, speaking at a fundraiser Tuesday, offered federal help to deal with Washington’s wildfire, the largest in the state’s history. …
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Here’s my tweet on this subject:
Disasters blamed on gays? Replace “gay” with “climate” and a “crazy, hateful” sermon becomes a presidential speech
Pretty sure the big one in Washington was caused by lightening. Curiously, it was after obama was elected and he caused the sea-levels to fall. Falling sea levels and worse wild fires, probably a one-to-one relationship.
the top 3 scapegoats, Bush, climate change, Republican Congress, these three things define the Obama presidency.
Same BS from our village idiot in the governor’s mansion. These morons are so invested in that bogus concept that they have no idea that it’s all worn out by now, and they just make themselves look sillier trying to tie it to the natural processes that happen every year. Or like the big fire in Kellogg, ID in 1910.
Not to mention their own crackpot theories that we shouldn’t manage the forests - and just let the understory fuels build up.
And I thought Gov. Lepetomaine was just a movie character...
Well they can't be forest fires, right? Because all the green weenies tell us that the bad capitalist loggers have cut down all the forests.
What ever happened to the National Forest Service div of BLM?
AWOL?
Nope. Just more gullible people.
VERY mild fire season so far this year, comparatively.
Year-to-date large fires: 1,562,243 acres vs
Year-to-date 10 year avg: 3,772,922 acres
Y-T-D fires 30,839 vs
Y-T-D 10 year avg 44, 663
3/4 as many fires, and only 1/3 as many acres burned this year so far, of the year-to-date 10 year average.
National Interagency Coordination Center
Incident Management Situation Report
Tuesday July 22, 2014 – 0530 MT
National Preparedness Level 3
http://www.nifc.gov/nicc/sitreprt.pdf
So far in 2014 we have had the fewest acres burned in the last 10 years (almost 1/3 of the average to date).
And the 2nd fewest number of fires total (fewest was last year).
http://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm
jinx you owe me a coke
For the numbers, see my #28 below. This year is WAY below 10 year averages.
...and thanks again for the fruit cake recipe; we loved it.
Obama came to WA State to fund raise, not for help the fire victims. While towns all over WA are holding fund raisers for the fdisplaced victims of the wild fires, Obama comes into Seattle at rush hour and ties up traffic to fill his political coffers.
2 minutes is as good as a mile! LOL
Smokey had no middle name, his name was Smokey Bear.
Traffic issues were worse than on a normal weekday commute as only 1 regular lane and 1 HOV lane of the I-90 bridge were open and there was a Mariner game at Safeco (for those that don’t know - north of Boeing Field where AF1 lanes) and a Seattle Storm game at the Key Arena - both at 7.
They were suggesting that some people work from home yesterday, which may have helped with making the commute not as bad as it could have been.
Whenever Obama comes to town one fairly liberal radio host says, “he’s coming to visit his ATM in Bellevue again - he never has time for the little people”.
You’re correct, it was started by lightening. We’ve had a beautiful summer so far - -a few days over 80 (which we usually don’t get until Aug)in the Seattle area and not much rain. East of the mountains and Eastern WA is usually warmer.
I heard on the radio last night that they may get rain over the fire area today. Which on one hand is a blessing, though they were concerned if there was a lot of rain there could be flooding as apparently the fire causes the ground to get hard so the water doesn’t sink in easily. They indicated there could be more lightening, too.
What human-caused climate change was responsible for this one? Yes, some parts of the fire were sparked by human activity, but lightning was involved, too, along with severe winds.
The problem is still mismanagement. Those fires that were fought so ardently in the past, lack of logging, and other greenie-weenie crap has reduced once-great forests to dregs.
We're no longer allowed to log like we used to. So too many trees fight for too little water, then get weak and are prone to beetle infestation. They die, and become tinder for the next little fire to blow up into a big fire.
There was a lot of reaction in the SW after the Rodeo-Chediski fire caused unprecedented damage on National Forest land, but had little impact on adjacent White-Mountain Apache forest land. The Apaches had allowed logging to thin the forest, and it suffered little damage in comparison.
Entire forests of dead/dying trees to become the next match-head to ignite.
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