Posted on 08/02/2018 7:13:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
California Gov. Jerry Brown says his state is in "uncharted territory" with the current slew of intense wildfires and he warns that climate change has made the situation "part of our ordinary experience."
"[The] predictions that I see, the more serious predictions of warming and fires to occur later in the century, 2040 or 2050, they're now occurring in real time," Brown said at a news conference on Wednesday in Sacramento.
"You can expect that — unfortunately — to continue intensifying in California and throughout the Southwest. We are part of that process," he said.
Brown said that only a month into the current budget year California has already spent $125 million, a quarter of its fire budget.
"We're in for a really rough ride," Brown said at the news conference. "It's going to get expensive, it's going to get dangerous, and we have to apply all our creativity to make the best of what is going to be an increasingly bad situation."
Brown's remarks reflect a growing body of evidence and scientific opinion that supports a link between warmer temperatures due to climate change and more fires of greater intensity that occur for more months out of the year. They also echo the frustration of many on the front lines battling the blazes.
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So Moonbeam is saying that global warming causes arsonists?
These people are truly lost.
5.56mm
MoonBeam as he nears his 2nd Coming’s end...
Deja Vu.. It’s like he never left.
During his stay,, the state burned, suffered major droughts, crime was rampant.. revenue was burned thru on frivolous agendas that did little to save the state, only solidified immorality as the standard for politicians and many public officials.
Times change .. Times stay the same.
Of course, nothing to do with arsonists, accidental fires, underbrush policies, etc...just global climate change, eh MoonbeamIdiot?!
#8 Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead above Los Angeles will be one big fireplace because the state will not allow clearing the millions of dead trees killed by the beetle infestation.
So the weather in California is becoming more like the weather used to be in Mexico?
Or the weather in Seattle is becoming more like weather in L.A. once was?
Soon Alaska will be the breadbasket of the world!
But isn’t it just like a liberal to stake a position and then go looking for the “evidence”?
. . . has a proper name. It is called, “weather."
Idylwild, cooperating with Riverside County and the Forest Service, has spent the last several years clearing tens of thousands of dead trees, creating multiple egress routes and firefighter strike points, and dozing hundreds of firebreaks. The Idylwild fire was 80% contained by Monday, burning into unpopulated areas. The Carr fire, otoh, is still raging. The terrain is very similar between the two. Lessons to learn?
California wildfires have been a fact of life since I was a kid...in the middle years of the past century!
Complete. Insanity.
Jerry Brown, living proof you can’t fix Stupid.
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