I said chaparral, not chaparral bird.
Posted on 11/23/2018 6:57:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Climate change is a danger to us all and President Trump must be stopped — that’s the chorus we always hear when new climate reports are released and destructive fires ravage California. But is it true?
On Oct. 31, six days before the midterm elections, the journal Nature published an article suggesting that the world’s oceans were absorbing much more heat from climate change than previously calculated. The research, by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, and New Jersey’s Princeton University, was obligingly picked up by the national media with alarming headlines such as:
Study: Oceans warming faster than anticipated giving humanity even less time to stave off worst impacts of climate change — San Diego Union-Tribune
Oceans warming faster than anticipated, giving even less time to stave off worst impacts of climate change, study finds — Los Angeles Times
Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming — The Washington Post
Oceans Warming Much Faster Than Thought, Study Finds – The New York Times
Politicians and their campaigns quickly followed suit. California’s senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, running for reelection against a fellow Democrat, tweeted this on Oct. 31: “New science shows the oceans are warming more than we thought. We may have to cut emissions 25% faster to avoid a disastrous 2°C of global warming. It’s time to stop pretending climate change isn’t a real threat—our future depends on it.”
As with many scientific studies in the climate science realm, this one had been weaponized in the service of politics. But the study was deeply flawed. On Election Day, after five days of extensive and frequently breathless media treatment of the ocean warming study, British mathematician Nicholas Lewis posted some doubts on Dr. Judith Curry’s...
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
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All the western states being smoked out by California should be allowed to sue the state.
“Suggested target locations for arson attacks, the magazine stated, “include houses and apartment buildings, forest areas adjacent to residential areas, factories that produce cars, furniture, clothing, flammable substances, etc., gas stations, hospitals, bars, dance clubs, night clubs, banks, car showrooms, schools, universities, as well as churches, Rafidi [Shiite] temples, and so forth. The options are vast, leaving no excuse for delay.”
Jihadists were advised to time their arson “preferably in the later part of night to the early hours of morning when people are generally asleep,” and instructions were offered on how to block off exits to inflict casualties. For wildfires, ISIS said to look for dry brush “as fire cannot endure in damp or wet environments.” Arsonists were encouraged to leave the mark of ISIS somewhere near the fire site with spray paint or black marker. Suggested target locations for arson attacks, the magazine stated, “include houses and apartment buildings, forest areas adjacent to residential areas, factories that produce cars, furniture, clothing, flammable substances, etc., gas stations, hospitals, bars, dance clubs, night clubs, banks, car showrooms, schools, universities, as well as churches, Rafidi [Shiite] temples, and so forth. The options are vast, leaving no excuse for delay.” https://drudgereport
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What would a Road Runner (Chaparral) have to do with wild fires?
I said chaparral, not chaparral bird.
“Climate change is a danger to the entire world.”
“Climate change blamed for forest fires.”
Then, why are only California forests burning?
“All the western states being smoked out by California should be allowed to sue the state.”
Absolutely!
That place is the most mismanaged place on planet Earth.
They did it to themselves! They keep looking for a scape-goat. Cali-F-ornia gets an F for Failure to properly manage their Forest!
Much of California is an irrigated desert.
I'm really getting tired of it here in CO. Messes up my sinuses which exacerbates my sleep apnea.
We're returning to either normal SW precipitation by the standards of the past few thousand years, and very possibly for the entire Holocene era, or the awful standards of what paleoclimatologists call a "real" drought by historic standards. NORMAL precipitation in the US Southwest over the past 2000 years has averaged only 2/3 of what we've gotten in the past hundred years. A REAL drought by historic standards is 1/3 of the average for the past 2000 years. This has horrendous implications for the whole Southwest, and the paleoclimatologists think we're entering a "real" drought for a couple of centuries.
So the bad fires of the past ten years are nothing compared to what's coming. I recommend reading these sources:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D4EWHPU/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o02_?ie=UTF8&psc=1,_The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow_, Ingram, B. Lynn, and Malamud-Roam, Frances, 2013, University of California Press
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/drying-west/kunzig-text, _Drying of the West_, (February 2008), National Geographic, Kunzig, Robert
So happy for you that Utah has no fires. Must save you
big tax dollars.
“Much of California is an irrigated desert.”
An irrigated desert which produces double the agricultural
products of the second leading ag producing state.
Thousands of new homes built in fire-prone area near San Diego with only one exit road. Would you live there?
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/nov/20/camp-fire-fatalities-spark-fears-about-recent-land/
In his book Not by fire but by Ice, Robert W. Felix, cites numerous studies documenting underwater volcanism as the source of the oceans warming. He also cites numerous studies about our planets travels through the galactic plane that are effecting our magnetic poles and may cause magnetic wandering or pole shift as another source of climate variance. The settled science of man made global warming is a farce and these know it all scientist now call for spraying aerosols into the atmosphere to block the sun, but the sun is going into a prolonged solar minimum so aerosols would make the coming mini ice age so much worse. These lunatics are gonna kill us all
Nuclear powered desalination plants could solve the drought crisis, but if you solve a crisis you don’t have it to not let go to waste.
We have fires. We just know how to manage our forests so that entire counties don’t look like they were nuked, we have competent people that can put them out in a timely manner, and we don’t drag the entire country into our problems.
The only reason things might change is because a bunch of Hollywood stars got burned out of their homes, ironic since they’re the ones that successfully lobbied to get controlled burns shut down because the smoke from it was bothering them. Don’t like the smoke from controlled burns, eh? You’re upset about that smoke messing up your view of the valley below? How do you like your entire area code looking like it was nuked?! Californians are idiots.
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