Posted on 09/12/2020 1:00:07 PM PDT by karpov
Wow. Overnight, apparently there’s nobody who does not understand that climate policy is not an answer to California’s wildfire crisis.
Even the do-gooder, nonprofit news group ProPublica plaintively asks in a headline, “They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?” The article goes on to assert: “The pattern is a form of insanity: We keep doing overzealous fire suppression across California landscapes where the fire poses little risk to people and structures. As a result, wildland fuels keep building up.”
I guess when thousands of people might be burned out of their homes, it concentrates the mind.
But then why was California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most quoted response to the fires “Never have I felt more of a sense of obligation . . . to face climate change head on”?
Confusion abounds. One admirable New York Times article makes clear the immediate answer does not lie in climate policy: “Millions of Americans are moving into wildfire-prone areas outside of cities, and communities often resist restrictions on development. A century of federal policy to aggressively extinguish all wildfires rather than letting some burn at low levels, an approach now seen as misguided, has left forests with plenty of fuel for especially destructive blazes.”
But another Times article on the same day insists that “the mechanism driving the wildfire crisis is straightforward: Human behavior, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil.”
Such sentences are a counsel purely of despair. People who take an interest in global warming can only conclude fires are unstoppable and must be endured as a result of our accumulated planet sins.
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Antifa arsonists doing their thing. AG Barr???
Controlled burns would lessen the severity. But if it’s arson, then I am beyond pissed.
Well, duh. The Climate Change Lobby expects a return on their investment.
It’s really laughable, if it weren’t for the fact that hundreds of people have probably died because of their liberal arrogance.
Don’t think I’m far out on a limb to say NO ONE at the WSJ knows jack about forestry.
Just like a broken clock, they may be right from time to time, but the motivation is never truth.
Behind every word is their agenda, and that is the only constant.
I’m surprised the NYT hasn’t lectured us that it’s OK since it’s only burning up rich whiteys who abandoned the inner city to congregate with other racists.
All that money spent fighting fires could be better spent raising awareness about racism.
Germany is a land of beautiful forests.
Germany has well-developed forestry land management which has evolved out of experience during the middle ages. Each county or dukedom had a forester. It was his job to clear out the old trees and downed brush. He did not allow overgrowth, and also managed the wildlife. He either hunted or worked with the official hunter of the village. he was the only person allowed to hunt. Poachers were caught and punished. It was necessary because of the density of the population. With the huge land mass in North America, we never had to worry too much about the dangers of fires to residents in the forest areas.
You never hear of wildfires in Germany - well hardly ever despite their famous forests and villages. They have the Black Forest, the Odenwald and all the other ‘....walds’ and the Alps. Their mountain villages are safe and enchanting.
Could put a lot of people to work in forests
Mother nature managed the forests just fine before humans showed up.
When lightning started a fire it meant there was just enough fuel on the forest floor to start the cleanup process.
It would burn until it couldn’t.
Now the humans have interrupted the cycle and too much fuel builds up and when a fire does get started it burns so hot it kills the forest.
I have known this for decades, why can’t the smart people understand?
Imported pests and diseases don’t help.
Antifa activist arrested for arson in Washington state
https://www.wnd.com/2020/09/antifa-activist-arrested-arson-washington-state/
The rolling blackouts are also showing why the current renewable energy solutions are a failure. Less than 5% of those who put solar panels on the roof have an energy storage system, whether an old fashioned battery bank or modern energywall from Tesla. It just connects to the grid and pays them for the power, maximizing subsidies while minimizing cost. So a lot of people have solar panels ... but can’t get power for them homes from them.
The Universe is a cruel and unforgiving place, where stupidity is the one crime that is inevitably rendered full justice. People knew fifty years ago how to prevent the buildup of fuel from fallen trees and dead underbrush, by going in and harvesting selectively, and cleaning up the slash afterward, while preparing and replanting the replacement growth stock. Young growing green trees and vegetation are a natural fire retardant.
Then along came a few young folks, smarter than anybody else on the planet, and decided they needed to “protect” the habitat of some species they believed was in danger of extinction. Thus, whole swathes of forest land were declared “protected”, and the buildup of undergrowth fuel began. Once ignited, this fuel in the undergrowth would burn very hot, enough to cause mature trees to burst like bombs as the sap boiled in the trunk, and the explosive force could blow a flying fire retardant spreading airplane or helicopter right out of the air, making an already hazardous enterprise much like a war zone.
Not to say that the species that this management strategy was supposed to protect, but they die like everything else that cannot escape the fire.
Think outside the box after that.
No gas out west? Nothing they can get from Canada?
I’ve been saying....revive the CCC camps...it’s a semi-military life that provided boys with food, shelter and clothing and money to send home. My dad and his bro joined for a year. They loved it. It was an adventure for them.
Letting fires do their job is one way to clean forest.
Cleaning the underbrush, pruning the forest and even clean cutting areas of the forest are ways to simulate forest fire. Plus we get some wood out of it!
Right now the forests are managed by good feelings, trying to save the trees, but kill the forest. Struggling to preserving the nature, by killing it.
We need adults and science to take care about forest, not crybaby, good feeling, environmentalists.
The forest service is underfunded, always under the threads of lawsuits from environmental groups. Moreover actually still most of its budget goes to fighting fires! We need to radically reform the forest service to switch from this conservation mismanagement to really intensively manage the forests!
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Or we can simulate forest fires by clean cutting, pruning and brush removal.
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