Posted on 10/23/2007 6:30:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Is there nothing the Democrats won’t politicize?
Global warming? Harry, people have lost their homes here and you’re making this into a political issue? Shut up.
Reid is nothing but an opportunist. Happily, I think people on both sides of the political spectrum are finally seeing that aspect of him.
Harry Reid, you whore-shut the hell up.
Harry Reid is a complete jack-ass. There are many things that contribute to this problem, including arson.
Harry Reid is stuck on “Stupid.”
THEN they started furiously, and I mean aggressively, pimping a program that we MUST SEE!!
Some Global Warming bullshit, As it were relevent to a situation that repeats every few years.
*CLICK*
The vast majority of wildfires are caused by humans. Many fires are started as a result of debris burning. Often these fires are rekindled, in some cases several days after the fire is thought to be out, when air temperature, wind speed and relative humidity come together to create conditions favorable for fires to burn and spread.
Lightning also is responsible for fires starting on the Refuge. Such fires occur at a frequency of three to five every year. Lightning here is generally associated with rain, so these fires do not usually grow to a large size.
Human caused fires that start are most often the result of arson or carelessness. These fires are usually suppressed before they become large, but some have reached into the hundreds of acres and threatened life and property.
The source? Go to http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/arizona/havasu/causesofwildfires.html
The Santiago fire was already confirmed as arson fire.
Moments later, when asked by a reporter if he really believed global warming caused the fires, he appeared to back away from his comments, saying there are many factors that contributed to the disaster.
This is the second funniest thing I have read in the last ten minutes (not the fire). At first, I thought there was an editing mistake and part of another article got transposed into the wrong story. Not the case. Harry is that stupid!
Ahh.. Harry, the fire chief said they were intentionally set...
“Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a presidential candidate, remained in California, where he successfully cajoled the National Guard to send six C-130 jets from North Carolina, Wyoming and Colorado to help drop flame retardant to stop the fires from spreading. Californias C-130s were not equipped to fight fires. “
They have jet engines now? Who knew?
I'm a southern CA native, 50 years of age. This is at least the second time in recent memory that Malibu specifically has burned. Southern CA sees fires like this every couple years whether it's Global warming or not. These aren't even the biggest fires in CA history (yet) We had far larger ones during the 80s where the entire state felt like it was on fire.
Fires are part of CA's natural ecology - that's all there is to it.
The conditions where perfect. Santa Ana winds (winds blowing from the hot/dry desert towards the ocean takes all the moisture out of the eco-system. You look at the brush funny and it catches on fire. Been that way my whole life.
Oh yeah - Senator Harry is an Idiot of the first magnitude.
I wasn’t aware that global warming had increased to the point where it was causing combustion. I’ll have to see what Al Gore has to say.
You might as well demean someone’s religion as demean global warming.
What you haven’t heard about the C-130Z models? :>)
The rebuild them at Hill AFB. (Got to do something with those old F-111 engines.)
I hope your area is OK. I was in AZ during the 80’s and visited Vandenburg many times. I remember the raging wildfires in the mountains. Now they are being set intentionally (probably were then too because it is harvest time as everyone knows), with much more sprawl involved.
Well, they mean that the extreme winds were due to global warming.
Not to minimize the severity, but I just saw CNN an hour ago with the reporter standing there in a DEAD CALM, with smoke rising vertically from fires on a hillside in the background. Just then the crawl goes by mentioning how the fires are being whipped up by the Santa Ana winds.
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