Rainfall in SoCal has been ABOVE AVERAGE for the last for years running.
Posted on 01/10/2025 4:05:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
This is wrong. You don’t even need the five Whys to see this. Why didn’t you have competent people managing and maintaining the water supply and distribution system? We prioritized DEI. Why did you prioritize DEI? Because we needed people who support environmental justice? Why do you need environmental justice? To prevent the racist impact of global climate change. It really couldn’t be simpler than that.
I have a book with numerous photographs of forests in California taken in 1800s compared to photos taken in the exact same spots, a hundred years later and the forests are much thicker now.
Arson.
Here is “Climate Change” in 1830 or so. I still remember the fires in the late 1960s.
http://www.authorama.com/two-years-before-the-mast-12.html
In the middle of this crescent, directly opposite the anchoring ground, lie the mission and town of Santa Barbara, on a low, flat plain, but little above the level of the sea,........
The town is certainly finely situated, with a bay in front, and an amphitheatre of hills behind. The only thing which diminishes its beauty is, that the hills have no large trees upon them, they having been all burnt by a great fire which swept them off about a dozen years before, and they had not yet grown up again. The fire was described to me by an inhabitant, as having been a very terrible and magnificent sight. The air of the whole valley was so heated that the people were obliged to leave the town and take up their quarters for several days upon the beach.
Increased atmospheric CO2 is a Good Thing.
Arson is environmental justice to fairly distribute the impact of climate change.
It enhances the growth of trees planted by rich people. CO2 does nothing for the poor downtrodden who live in dust bowels.
H.L. Mencken 1919.
I question whether any population, no matter their diligence, is capable of weeding out entire forests of brush and deadwood that some day will burn by whatever source of ignition might arise.
Due diligence, if living on land subject to natural fires, would be to equip the home with shielding devices, or plans to move out immediately (RV, for example).
Not saying fire departments and reservoirs don’t matter, but there is a limit in what any population can and will do from day to day as a way of mitigating that which the planet naturally propagates.
It doesn’t matter what caused the fire…arson, lightning, “climate change “ or whatever. Forest and brush still weren’t cleared and/or managed, lack of firefighters, equipment and water still happened. Budgets were still cut, DEI was still prioritized over competence and actual firefighting.
I actually believe climate change did result in these fires. I didn’t used to believe in man-made climate change, but now I see state and local officials are directly at fault for causing this unnatural disaster.
I’m changing my tagline.. See next post.
I’m glad Stossel is doing very well.
New tag....
I thought that was a joke when I started hearing that climate change caused the fire.
People are now, in the media, so use to the magical thinking that is required to believe their nonsense that now they will believe anything.
Forestry is a science, just like agriculture or engineering.
We do not really need fires to clean the forest, we can do it ourselves, by removing dead trees, debris and underbrush.
Then cutting fire breaks and building roads.
But fire is the nature way to clean forest.
And yes, there are photos from like 100-150 years ago, which shows that the forest in the West were very sparse, comparing to current situation.
They could just ride carriages right through the forest then.
I wonder how many years of usual burning of fossil fuels it would take to match the amount of carbon dioxide and pollutants that these fires have generated?
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