Kinda ironic Democrats are belching huge amounts of carbon at the same time they decry our leaving the Paris Accord.
Its always someone else’s fault the planet is doomed in the next 11 years.
I call it the selling of green indulgences by the church of Gaia.
It’s exactly the same idea as in the Middle Ages. Commit all the sin you want. Cough up some money to wash away your sins. Then you get to preach about how noble and righteous you are - even while massively sinning.
Thank the Sierra Club
PG&E is bankrupt. Its senior executive, key engineers and technical personnel are leaving and taking remunerative jobs out of state. Soon the state will be forced to run PG&E. Does anyone think that the socialists can competently run such a critical complex company. The energy situation in California is going to get much worse even if these silly environmental regulations are rescinded.
Does all the smoke from the fires contribute to air pollution?
Making room for more trees.
Federal permits to harvest dead and dying trees take about a year to get approved on federal ground. The California State permits I file as a professional forester to harvest dead and dying trees on private land here in California take 4-6 weeks to get approved. Why is this important?
After the trees dies, insects begin to eat through the wood and rot/decay begins to break down the fiber. What that means is that six months after a pine tree dies, the log is borderline merchantable to a sawmill, after eight months the sawmills will not buy it. The firs last about a year before they become unmarketable.
Most private landowners try to salvage fire kill timber immediately, so they can use the money from selling the logs to reforest the property. When I tell them I cant get them a permit for almost two months they are astounded.
Fires burn in the fall here - lets use the Carr Fire that burned up Redding last year on July 25. Us foresters were not allowed in untill a month later - around September 1. Two months to get a permit puts us around November 1. The “winter period” begins November 15. This restricts logging operations to dry rainless periods. Usually around mid December it becomes to wet to log.
The ground dries out in early April - eight months after the fire. The pine is now borderline worthless. See how this works? No money from selling the logs equals no money to replant the forest. Many get disgusted and sell their property. The land reverts to a brush field with dead trees sticking up out of it. It usually burns ten years later in another 100,000 acre conflagration.
It has gotten worse over the last 20 years, but this actually started in 1988 on the federal level, and 1990 at the State level.
Accurate reporting on this is virtually non-existant. Almost every article on forests that I read is propaganda.