What happens to a totally “Green” state such as California???
It turns “Black”...
And from what I understand, this could’ve been averted if the greenies weren’t always pacified.
You would think that this state would be burned up/down/gone already as much of it that has burned
it happened before.
THEY KNEW what to do to prevent it.
But fire brings fear, and fear porn is what
the DNC wants.
You either have to permit logging or permit the natural cycle of forest fires. If do not remove the fuel (lumber) fires are inevitable. The longer you try to suppress fires the bigger they become.
Of course, even though forest fires have been part of the natural cycle in California for countless millennia, the are Trump’s fault. Trump and those damned gasoline powered SUVs. Womyn and minorities are hardest hit.
Fire is a natural part of the ecosystem.
Look at the good side of it. The fires may knock back the Pine Bark Beatles that are killing the trees.
Math error. 1 acre = .404686 hectares. Figure should be 809,000 ha, not 809 000 million ha.
Thank God we stopped the Timber Industry from harvesting all those densely populated trees into Piano’s and Houses, and don’t forget all the dead wood that we prevented from being harvested and sold for firewood for campers,.....
California made an ash of itself................
Unfortunately this year has seen lots of weird dry lightning strikes which are ridiculously uncommon for this part of the world this time of year
if you’re in a place on the East Coast or almost anywhere in the Midwest thunderstorms and lightning happen on a daily basis but those woods aren’t going to burn
The somewhat fortunate thing here in the bay area at least is it happening in August and now September so we get those typical pretty strong Westerly breeze is every day they blow a lot of the smoke east
The main problem in October and November as you start getting to Santa Anna winds and hot weather and that’s a real deadly combo
MMMMMM, 2 million acres burned. How much Green House gas released? I think since this has been such a large environmental disaster that California should stop all activities until they make up for the large increase just released. May take a year or two but they need to save the planet!
Nature fixes man’s mistakes (too much fire suppression for decades), but it isn’t pretty as it does the fixing.
It’s all climate changes fault. Those nasty hurricanes whupped up the atmosphere and then Mother Nature set off a sparkler show like few we have seen before.
Some say you can never be prepared for such a widespread set of weather disturbances to hit.
Some say, the fires were in inaccessible terrain. We have to let them burn themselves out.
Others said why don’t we have roads and fire breaks and such to make access possible and perhaps allow firefighters to slow and reduce the extent of damages?
Why? That would require a regearing, a rethinking of the California dream. A renewal of honest and reasoned approaches to not averting disasters but preparing known trouble areas to allow some level of prevention of fires spreading easily in dense underbrush and fuel.
They can’t blame PG&E this time. They have been cutting power all fire country at the drop of a hat. Yet the burn this year exceeds the year they scapegoated PG&E.
Right, lets not clear out forests or any of that, and then when all that dead underbrush and dead trees cause massive fires, then find a new scapegoat to blame.
Thanks Commifornia.
Agenda 21 urbanization plan is coming along nicely.