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How climate change is "turning up the dial" on California wildfires
CBS "News" ^ | October 13, 2017 | By STEFAN BECKET

Posted on 10/13/2017 6:59:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The deadly wildfires ravaging northern California have destroyed more than 3,500 homes and businesses, leveling entire neighborhoods and forcing thousands of residents to flee the flames.

Experts say fires like those burning up California wine country will be more frequent, more intense and last longer as global temperatures rise. While no single fire can be said to have been caused by climate change, variations in temperature and precipitation are already affecting the complex dynamics that determine how wildfires develop and spread.

California Gov. Jerry Brown laid the blame squarely at the feet of climate change on Wednesday.

"With a warming climate, dry weather and reducing moisture, these kinds of catastrophes have happened and will continue to happen and we have to be ready to mitigate, and it's going to cost a lot of money," Brown said.

Scientists and fire experts back up that claim. They point to an alarming increase in the severity and frequency of wildfires in the West over the past several years, warning that the problem is only going to get worse.

"When we step back and look at the whole West, fires are increasing everywhere at different rates," said LeRoy Wankerling, professor of management at the University of California, Merced who studies how climate affects wildfires. "The goose is cooked in someplace like Yellowstone. The frequency of fires is expected to increase so much, and the ecosystem is really going to change."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: climatechangefraud; fakescience; globalwarming; hoax; journalism; socialism; wildfires
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The California fires were caused by two things, Wind, and arsonists. It was not caused by a tenth of a degree temperature rise.


21 posted on 10/13/2017 7:27:23 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Experts say fires like those burning up California wine country will be more frequent, more intense and last longer as global temperatures rise.”

You mean like all those 100’s of hurricanes that were gonna hit us right after Katrina?


22 posted on 10/13/2017 7:28:09 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: USCG SimTech

“If anything, the ash and particulate will block out the Sun a bit more and cause cooling and provide the vehicle for water vapor to condense upon (becoming rain and clouds).”

Which is what I thought the 1970’s reports on climate change said. It seems that the cooling trend ended when “clean” energy was introduced and unleaded gasoline became the norm. A cleaner atmosphere meant more sun, hence more warming.

It doesn’t take a climate scientist to understand this. Any 6 year with a magnifying glass and an ant hill on a sunny day can tell you this.


23 posted on 10/13/2017 7:28:32 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: USCG SimTech
If anything, the ash and particulate will block out the Sun a bit more and cause cooling and provide the vehicle for water vapor to condense upon (becoming rain and clouds).

In Utah...

24 posted on 10/13/2017 7:31:43 AM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the penguins are dying because of too much ice.


25 posted on 10/13/2017 7:34:49 AM PDT by just me (God bless President Trump and the USA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Back in 1956, Smoky the Bear advertisements warned there were so many wildfires in the continental USA that, if put together, they would cover the state of Louisiana. Louisiana is 50,000 sq miles, or 32 million acres.

Have we reached anywhere near 32 million yet? Why didn’t we have glo-bull warming back then?

OH WAIT! Back then it was the “GREENHOUSE EFFECT!” Then came the “Coming Ice Age” scare.


26 posted on 10/13/2017 7:36:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ptsal
Now you're just being silly. You cannot use logic and reason with the GloBULL warming crowd. When will you ever learn?!

Lord I hope this doesn't need a sarcasm tag

27 posted on 10/13/2017 7:36:58 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: BobL

Have the fires reached the ranch lands west of Colusa?


28 posted on 10/13/2017 7:40:34 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Figures. And the drought they have had over the past few years along with the policy of not cutting vegetation that will go up like a natch stick, apparently has nothing to do with it.

rwood


29 posted on 10/13/2017 7:44:36 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They instituted rules to no longer clear the undergrowth, and to remove the fire breaks, and then wonder why the fires are worse.


30 posted on 10/13/2017 7:53:59 AM PDT by Ingtar
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To: robroys woman

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


31 posted on 10/13/2017 7:59:36 AM PDT by abclily
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To: glennaro

and people building in Forest Fire Zones and then leaving all the trees around them


32 posted on 10/13/2017 8:03:15 AM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"When we step back and look at the whole West, fires are increasing everywhere at different rates," said LeRoy Wankerling, professor of management at the University of California, Merced who studies how climate affects wildfires.
33 posted on 10/13/2017 8:15:15 AM PDT by goodnesswins (As Americans, We are CITIZENS not SUBJECTS.)
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To: ptsal
<>Banning controlled burns

<>Limiting/Eliminating logging

<>Not having defensible space around structures

<>Wildfires have happened since the start of time

You might consider adding sabotage to the possible causes. There seems to be several organizations, both foreign and domestic, that might be happy with the destruction, not to mention firebugs.

34 posted on 10/13/2017 9:34:43 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

HAHAHA California has been burning since the 50s when I moved there.


35 posted on 10/13/2017 9:36:32 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (---->VMFA 235 '69 -'72 KMCAS <--- F4 PHANTOM... FLYING BRICK)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Valpal1; All
Here are two references indicating what is probably at least a part of the problem concerning the California fires imo.
36 posted on 10/13/2017 9:40:13 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: American in Israel

The California fires were caused by two things, Wind, and arsonists. It was not caused by a tenth of a degree temperature rise.


Also, if fuel (dead trees, branches, grass) is allowed to build up on the ground for a long period of time, this can make wild fires far worse—hotter, faster-spreading more devastating.

Statistically 90 percent of forest fires are caused by human activity (deliberate or accidental)


37 posted on 10/13/2017 9:42:57 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
iCBS
38 posted on 10/13/2017 9:43:50 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: olezip

Perhaps, CNN can send an undercover team to the Bay Area to discover the arson aspect.


39 posted on 10/13/2017 11:14:48 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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