https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Years_Before_the_Mast
Here is an excerpt from the book:
In the middle of this crescent, directly opposite the anchoring ground, lie the Mission and town of Santa Barbara, on a low plain, but little above the level of the sea, covered with grass, though entirely without trees, and surrounded on three sides by an amphitheatre of mountains, which slant off to the distance of fifteen or twenty miles. The Mission stands a little back of the town, and is a large building, or rather collection of buildings, in the centre of which is a high tower, with a belfry of five bells. The whole, being plastered, makes quite a show at a distance, and is the mark by which vessels come to anchor. The town lies a little nearer to the beach,-- about half a mile from it,-- and is composed of one-story houses built of sun-baked clay, or adobe, some of them whitewashed, with red tiles on the roofs. I should judge that there were about a hundred of them; and in the midst of them stands the Presidio, or fort, built of the same materials, and apparently but little stronger. The town is 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 ago, and they had not yet grown 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.This great fire happened sometime between 1822 and 1824, so not caused by Man Made Global Warming.
Interesting article I read yesterday about a piece on CLimate Change that the “Journals” refused to publish “because we can’t find an editor with the necessary expertise”. Turns out all the climate models were essentially stolen from the physicists by people who were to incompetent with the math to use them properly. The guy had reviewed every important “climate” article for decades and showed that they had all made the same mistake compounding errors over time because they didn’t know what they were doing. He even showed their data wouldn’t get the results they claimed because in several cases they had clearly “fudged the data” to get the result they wanted.
Turns out “global climate change” is a hoax propagated by their own incompetence.
Dr. Patrick Frank is his name.
.... This great fire happened sometime between 1822 and 1824, so not caused by man-made “global warming” ....
That’s because, back then, there was no Mann-madeGW Industrial Complex-caused, “global warming.”
Just like now.