Posted on 01/18/2025 2:38:52 PM PST by vespa300
Experts have identified the brand-new threat that may further destroy the Golden State as Californians continue to lose their homes to hellish wildfires.
At least 25 people have lost their lives and over 12,000 buildings have burned to the ground in the Palisades Fire - which has razed much of the Pacific Palisades, once a stunning coastal enclave home to the rich and famous.
However, according to the US Geological Survey the worst is yet to come.
As firefighters battle the flames and continue to diffuse them out, the federal agency claims landslides caused from burn scars left after the fires are out and rainfall returns will become a bigger issue in the future.
'After compiling one year's worth of soil and sediment erosion quantities occurring after large California wildfires between 1984 and 2021, scientists found that postfire erosion has accelerated over time, particularly in northern California, likely reflecting both the increase in wildfire in the state and the frequency of wet water years,' the study read.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Every bloody year. So long as you do nothing to stop wildfires the soil will then slide when the normal rains arrive.
EVERY YEAR. NO EXCEPTIONS. It is like those in charge have never lived here.
McPhee is one of my favorite authors. He would be more popular which the environmental movement, but for one book, Encounters with the Archdruid, about his conversations with a pillar of the Sierra Club.
https://www.amazon.com/Encounters-Archdruid-Narratives-Conservationist-Natural/dp/0374514313
I don’t want to give the plot away, but in one conversation, modern environmentalists are completely exposed.
Generic hand-waving mush. Not even one population estimate, merely a single sentence listing three tribes in the entire southwest of the state. (From today’s border to San Diego to the LA mountains back into today’s I10 pass into the central lowlands.)
Three tribes. Basket weaving is the single “technology” mentioned. No structures.
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