Posted on 10/13/2022 12:37:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Biden blamed wildfires on climate change during his speech Tuesday at the Summit on Fire Prevention and Control.
“And when the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly evident, we’re calling on you more and more and more,” the president said, speaking to firefighters. “Extreme heat and prolonged drought have turned wildfire season into wildfire years, and local firefighters are being called in more to respond to the fires in the wildland urban interface where we’re moving out into the forest areas to develop and it becomes local and federal.”
The president said that the Inflation Reduction Act “enables us to take unprecedented steps to confront climate crisis, which is going to protect forest health, reduce fire risk, and supercharge our clean energy future.”
“We’re also maximizing protections for people when fires do break out, through a national initiative to help states, local, and tribal and territorial governments adapt and adopt the most up-to-date building codes that reflect the threats from the climate — from climate change,” he said. …
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Wish I could find or obtain a compiled list of all the things BidenIdiot has blamed crap on. I bet that list is H U G E.
“In th’ latest, a gal came down from Yella Mountain. She ran callin’ Wil’fire! Wil’fire! But...in the new moon after...came a killin’ frost. Yeah, a pony busted down it’s stall. Somethin’. Anyway. Been a hoot-owl ou’sida my winda now. Six nights in a row. An she’s still yellin’ Wil’fire! Wil’fire! End remarks.”
It’s a real convenient excuse for everything isn’t it?
I mean, literally everything.
Wildfires and climate change are caused by illegal aliens.
Everybody knows that.
Chicken Little = p resident little
California has plenty of water if the government allowed more drilling for wells, more dams and desalination plants. Their topography is not conducive to allow regular rain falls like other states have.
Fires are caused by forest mismanagement!
The enviros had a long history of “saving” trees.
Now, there are too many trees and lots of debris in forests.
A spark and voila, forest fire!
Healthy, live trees are hard to put on fire, and if they are spaced properly, fire cannot spread. But tell it to the tree huggers!
As a matter of fact, many fires now are affecting protected wilderness’s and National Parks.
Back in 1957, public service announcements proclaimed that if all the wildfires in the US were put together they would equal the state of Louisiana.
Louisiana has 33.522 million acres.
size of wildfires in 2021....7.1 million acres.
We got a long way to go. So much for his glo-bull warming climate change nonsense.
Give the rats credit for naming their bills with positive sounding titles that in fact do the exact opposite. For the People Act, Inflation Reduction Act, etc.
Washington’s 2022 fire season has been the mildest in a decade
Fake Science + Fake President = Chaos and Poverty
Specifics please. Oh right there never are specifics, just generalities and platitudes and gobbedlygook. "You can keep your Doctor if you like your Doctor".
Stop making sense.
Orange-man bad...installed puppet pResident bad’er.
NO specifics. oops.
When my Dad, a forestry prof, got his job at a local university which has a large on-main-campus woods (one of the university’s most notable features), as he had a degree in Forest Management, well, guess what became one of his responsibilities? Except... the greenie influence prevented him from actually managing the woods at all effectively. He would grumble about it being dangerous (dead branches and trees), a fire risk, and “the greatest stand of poison ivy in the country”. Eventually, somebody with more influence nearly got clonked by a large falling branch and the University big-wigs realized they had serious liability issues to contend with. The woods got (mostly) cleaned up...
Much of the Western and Central US actually IS in a pretty notable drought at present. Heck, we got some rain yesterday and the fire risk is actually higher today because the rain all soaked in so quickly and winds are strong today, with low humidity (cold air coming in.)
However, it’s just a normal cycle. Our “days without rain” B4 yesterday are 4th on the list (a tie for 4th, I believe), and not even close to the 1964 dry spell, 48 days, which was REALLY unusual, coming in a normally wetter period for us (Oct. - mid-Nov.).
Yes. I also come from family of foresters.
They always told me how important was the forest management. Heck, I have done some forest management (cutting and burning redundant trees) in my college times.
These tree huggers drive me crazy - they fight to save the trees and they loose forest!
Nature wants clean forest, either people will clean it, or the nature will by fire!
There are old photos which show the original forests in the USA. Guess what, lots of meadows and sprinkle of trees spaced far away, so far that a carriage could easily pass between them.
In Europe, where the management was done extensively, there were no forest fires. But guess what? They are now, and invariably in the precious National parks and forest preserves, where, to preserve the nature, they stopped doing forest management!
The results of forest mismanagement were well documented and published even few years ago, but now, all that work was forgotten and politicians started blaming the straw man - global warming.
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