Posted on 10/12/2017 10:04:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Big deadly fires are nothing new to California, particularly during fire season when the Santa Ana or Diablo winds blow hot and dry, making tinder out of trees and bushes that have been baking all summer long.
But the firestorm now raging through Northern California isn’t the typical wildfire.
We don’t yet know what started the fires in Northern California, but we have a good idea of what made them so destructive. Authorities blame a combination of factors.
Burning fossil fuels is not the only human activity that contributes to the destruction wrought by wildfires and hurricanes. So does the relentless march of humans to develop land in danger spots.
“These kinds of catastrophes have happened and they’ll continue to happen.” Gov. Jerry Brown observed at a news briefing Wednesday. “That’s the way it is with a warming climate, dry weather and reducing moisture.”
California is fortunate to have a governor who understands the perils of ignoring climate change and is aggressively pushing policies to mitigate its future harm. Unfortunately, that puts him at odds with a head-in-the-sand president who blithely disregards the obvious connection between the warming climate and the multiple federal disaster areas he’s been forced to declare in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and, now, California.
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They lie. Fires (most of them) are from High Powered Electric lines and bad maintenance (trimming tress). Climate had NOTHING to do with it but why let a disaster go to waste.
Another crock of dung from MOONBEAM.
California has been having these fire for thousands of years.
The only difference now is people are building in these areas, and they all want to keep it “NATURAL” right up to their front doors.
Not one of their models has predicted anything correctly. Not a week goes by where I do not read "We didn't understand (or failed to properly account for) soil, plants, snow reflection, clouds, oceans, etc. in our model and that's why it failed. But we tuned our model and it is now accurate."
They cannot point to one single "obvious connection." But, as a famous German once said "Make it a huge lie and repeat it often. They'll swallow anything."
“The only difference now is people are building in these areas, and they all want to keep it “NATURAL” right up to their front doors.”
It is not an option, but required. It started out as an option but with everything else ‘progressive’ out there. Just ask the farmers in the valley.
Just curious. Does anyone know has this fire been more destructive than any of the several hurricanes?
It’s been shown time and time again that man starts 90% of all wildfires.
Crunchy granola nutcase.
Burning fossil fuels is not the only human activity that contributes to the destruction wrought by wildfires and hurricanes.
These warmists are very good at “knowing” things that are not so.
“These kinds of catastrophes have happened and they’ll continue to happen.” Gov. Jerry Brown observed at a news briefing Wednesday. “That’s the way it is with a warming climate, dry weather and reducing moisture.”
Record rain falls in Northern California this past winter. Reservoirs filled and dams literally burst.
We had the heaviest rainfall totals in 100 years and Brown is blaming the dry weather caused by “climate change”. Right. And the fires were apparently started by underserviced power lines and transformers that could hold up to 70 mph winds.
If the state had spent more money clearing brush and doing fire prevention rather than spending it on welfare and education for illegal aliens this disaster could have been prevented.
Brown fiddled while California burned.
the trees are not the problem.
It’s the Forest Service and EPA not allowing the clearing of brush on public, and if you have a creek...on private land.
The Grasses and brush beneath the tree canopy is what causes these disasters.
Or, turns a routine, small fire into 50,000 acre conflagration.
I’m glad you mentioned that. I remembered the following thread.
PG&E power lines linked to wine country fires (Tree hugger downside)
I can’t believe this disaster is already being politicized. Screw ‘em!
Hey Moonbeam, how about responsible resource management of forests, grasslands and streams/rivers to prevent and control wildfires? Ever heard of that?
Didn’t think so.
They could be arson fires. 17 fires in 24 hours?!
So what's the "obvious" connection?
50-60 MPH winds and high tension lines don't always mix.
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