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Climate Change in My Backyard
New York Times ^ | January 11. 2018 | By LEAH C. STOKES

Posted on 01/12/2018 8:59:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Mouton

“Lastly, California for years has been basically a desert. That is why few people lived in LA before the huge water projects.”

Bears repeating because this is the central anthropogenic/man-made factor that bears on the problem at hand. This allowed humans to live in a place that was previously naturally hostile to human habitation. Mother Nature/Gaia shall not be trifled with lightly.


21 posted on 01/12/2018 9:14:55 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All
Unlike some other California global warming alarmist cities, I wonder if Santa Barbara has warned potential investors about (politically correct) global warming problems?
Big Oil throws California’s climate change hypocrisy back in its face

22 posted on 01/12/2018 9:15:19 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

....and there were once dinosaurs and more recently the Anasazi vanished from the AZ. desert...or droughts in Africa or other parts of our planet....these are all unstoppable weather patterns for eons, even now; the ebb and flow of life.


23 posted on 01/12/2018 9:15:40 AM PST by yoe ("The FBI did everything but drive Hillary's get away car.......")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here in S.E. Michigan, when I got up early this morning the temperature was 51 degrees and raining. During the course of the morning, the temperature dropped, the rain froze on my driveway and street and it is now 23 degrees and snowing...........

Was going to go out for a while but those are the perfect conditions for creating accidents on the highways

24 posted on 01/12/2018 9:17:01 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: shelterguy
>>Looks like a 12 year old, acts like a 12 year old. See the correlation there?

Probably knits pink hats for the poodles under her command.

Not with a bang but a whimper.

Real men would at least require the women who conquer them to be of Amazonian character...


25 posted on 01/12/2018 9:17:40 AM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
That was one of the most pathetic things I have seen published, even in the New York Times...and that is saying a lot.

"...That we were somehow insulated. I didn’t expect to see it in my own backyard so soon..."

Gee, whiz. Never had a fire she saw. Never had rain she saw. Never had a drought she saw. From her CV: "Hons. B.Sc., Department of Psychology and Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto 2007", so I am guessing that will make her...what...32 years old?

Boy, if she lives another 100 or 200 years, she is going to see some things that are going to blow her mind...Mt. Rainier could erupt...there could be a 9.4 quake in California, we could be hit by large asteroid, there could be a huge epidemic of some kind we haven't foreseen...

But hey. She's 32 years old, liberal with a degree in East Asian Studies and Psychology...she has seen it all.

26 posted on 01/12/2018 9:17:51 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

OMG rainfall events MORE frequent CA. has had severe drought for the past 5 years!!! IDIOT!!!


27 posted on 01/12/2018 9:18:14 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: IYAS9YAS

OMG rainfall events MORE frequent CA. has had severe drought for the past 5 years!!! IDIOT!!!


28 posted on 01/12/2018 9:18:14 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-stokes-03633012


29 posted on 01/12/2018 9:18:20 AM PST by savedbygrace
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To: Mouton

“assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.”

AKA assistant thought director.

aka Parrot of all the algorisms, with about as much understanding of meteorology as the Star Wars writers have of airflow on a spaceship with both airlock doors open to the vacuum of space


30 posted on 01/12/2018 9:19:41 AM PST by samtheman (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

News flash! It’s cold in winter and hot in summer.


31 posted on 01/12/2018 9:20:07 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Cecily
There have been wildfires and mudslides in California every year for as long as I can remember, and that is decades. If the wildfires are getting more frequent, maybe it is because arson or carelessness have become more frequent.

Actually, the more frequent fires are directly due to the EnviroNazis refusing to allow the Parks Department to clear out undergrowth and dead trees... aka perfect tinder for wildfires. As is always the case, Liberals scream about the problems that they have created with their own insane policies.

32 posted on 01/12/2018 9:20:35 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: T-Bird45
"...Mother Nature/Gaia shall not be trifled with lightly..."

LOL, we know they worship Gaia, so...that would make their heads explode, if they didn't bathe themselves in cognitive dissonance nearly every second of their lives...

33 posted on 01/12/2018 9:20:35 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Cecily

My first year at UCSB in 1964 featured a huge fire in the Santa Ynez mountains. No doubt caused by climate change as well. The rainy season for SoCal has always been the winter. Growing up ‘normal’ was green in the winter time and come spring everything would turn brown, which was the hill side color until winter. Big fires followed by heavy rain = mudslides. They don’t like to say it, but several recent big fires were set, either accidentally or on purpose, by politically protected people—either homeless or illegal aliens.

In another environmental area, the Santa Barbara beaches were always covered with tar, long before the oil spill in the late 60s. So much so that our dorm showers had kerosene available to wash our feet.


34 posted on 01/12/2018 9:23:41 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: rlmorel

Chiffon Margarine


35 posted on 01/12/2018 9:25:20 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...the largest fire in California history...”

What a load of crap.

Been living in So. Cal. for 50 years and the recent fires were par for the course during fire season. I’ve personally witnessed much larger and far more destructive fires many, many times.

It may be the largest fire SHE has ever witnessed, but it was small potatoes compared to what I have witnessed.

Idiot snowflake. SMH.


36 posted on 01/12/2018 9:25:34 AM PST by Liberal Anti Venom (Freedom exists not to do what you like, but having the right to do what you ought. ~John Paul II~)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...the largest fire in California history...”

What a load of crap.

Been living in So. Cal. for 50 years and the recent fires were par for the course during fire season. I’ve personally witnessed much larger and far more destructive fires many, many times.

It may be the largest fire SHE has ever witnessed, but it was small potatoes compared to what I have witnessed.

Idiot snowflake. SMH.


37 posted on 01/12/2018 9:25:35 AM PST by Liberal Anti Venom (Freedom exists not to do what you like, but having the right to do what you ought. ~John Paul II~)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Apparently she's educated in "political" science.

She should stick to politics and not confuse political science with REAL science.

Picture shows her young enough to not know sh*t about life and the world at large.

38 posted on 01/12/2018 9:26:01 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: IYAS9YAS

Some places were never meant to host large populations of people on a permanent basis. Just because a place has been habitable for a time, doesn’t mean that time is it’s regular, permanent condition.

The Arctic has been frozen for a very long time. If it became tropical, which it’s been in the past, doesn’t mean it’s going to stay that way.

Yes, climate changes. It changes frequently and regularly. It always has whether or not man has existed. Man has to learn to live within the bounds of nature because nature is not made to obey the desires of man.

It doesn’t take a professorship to understand the KISS principle.


39 posted on 01/12/2018 9:27:06 AM PST by PrairieLady2
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They have tremendous fires because they don’t have a policy to send loggers into the woods to clear out the underbrush and dead wood and to maintain the healthy trees. There’s so much tinder that builds up over time that isn’t cleared away .. and purposely so by the Green Meanies .. it’s as if the forests are being prepped to go up with a “whoosh” in a wall of flame...


40 posted on 01/12/2018 9:28:46 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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