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Did Global Warming Play A Significant Role in the Recent Northwest Wildfires?
Watts Up With That? ^ | 09/22/2020 | Charles Rotter

Posted on 09/22/2020 8:11:48 AM PDT by fireman15

A number of groups and individuals are claiming that the recent major wildfires in the Pacific Northwest are predominantly or significantly the result of climate change produced by increasing greenhouse gases. In fact, many have called these conflagrations “climate fires.” Did global warming (a.k.a. climate change) have a significant impact on the Northwest wildfires of the past few weeks?

Consider the key fires in the Northwest U.S. this month: the huge, rapidly expanding fires on the western slopes of the Oregon Cascades.

The fires that not only burned hundreds of thousands of acres, but produced most of the smoke that engulfed the region for over a week. As I will demonstrate, the catastrophic Oregon Cascade fires of the past weeks were forced by strong easterly winds, and such winds may well weaken under global warming. And I will show that the weather of the past summer was relatively normal.

Thus, although global warming will undoubtedly produce substantial changes in our climate in the future, the impacts of global warming on the recent Oregon fires were probably quite small.

(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: 2020election; climatechange; election2020; fires; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal
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This is actually reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog on the Watts Up With That? website.

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/09/did-global-warming-play-significant.html

1 posted on 09/22/2020 8:11:48 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15

Does Global warming make people have ender reveal parties with incendiary devices?


2 posted on 09/22/2020 8:14:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (evience)
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To: fireman15

Global Warming is more leftist BS.


3 posted on 09/22/2020 8:15:16 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: fireman15

How about some sickos with matches and gasoline having a role in these fires.


4 posted on 09/22/2020 8:15:22 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: 1Old Pro

I don’t think global warming played any part at all.

“Change my mind.”


5 posted on 09/22/2020 8:15:34 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: fireman15

I think moronic peaceful protesters starting forest fires may have been a major factor.


6 posted on 09/22/2020 8:16:16 AM PDT by Home-of-the-lazy-dog ("Leftists will stand before you and cut off their own head just to prove that they'll do it!")
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To: fireman15
It is an interesting technical article which demonstrates clearly that Governor Dimsley of Washington along with the Governors of Oregon and California are either ignorant fools or habitual liars or probably both.
7 posted on 09/22/2020 8:16:29 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15

bookmark


8 posted on 09/22/2020 8:20:51 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Demon-rats cannot shove “global warming theory” down the throats of citizens and police who saw ARSONISTS and found evidence of arson.


9 posted on 09/22/2020 8:23:59 AM PDT by doc maverick
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So Molotov cocktails are part of “global warming theory” ?
I guess that is what Antifa/BLM thinks.


10 posted on 09/22/2020 8:28:37 AM PDT by doc maverick
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To: fireman15

Here is what is the cause of those forest fires.

In the early 70s it was “OLD GROWTH”

Then it was the “Spotted owl”

Then it was the “fish”

Then it was Bruce Babbit running around with a drip can saying we should BURN BABY BURN! BTW Bruce Babbit was the one who said that the idea of private property was outdated.

YES it is Climate change that is causing these fires-Political Climate change. When you let idiots and retards control natural resources that are sustainable by forestry practices, this is the result.

Here is a fact. Fires, whether it be natural, or man caused are devastating to forests eco systems-and that includes prescribed burns.

Management of those forests by logging does the exact opposite. it enhances the forest eco systems.

You fire bugs can kiss my....


11 posted on 09/22/2020 8:33:38 AM PDT by crz
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How about some sickos with matches and gasoline having a role in these fires.

No gasoline was necessary in this part of the woods. The interesting thing was how these strong hot and dry easterly winds dried plants and trees where we live out in a matter of hours. It was in the 90s with basically no humidity. The foliage around here is not used to this type of unusual conditions. I have never experienced something quite like it here.

We had leaves falling off the trees that were completely crispy yet still green. I was very worried about our house which is just up a steep hill from a busy street with brush and tall trees. Most of the year it is hard to start a campfire around here, but any idiot with a lighter or just throwing a cigarette butt out their window could have easily burned the entire hillside and all the houses on top of it last week. We had a number of arsonists operating in the area, none of them needed an accelerant...

The article explained that easterly winds have no correlation with "global warming" and that they have been a phenomena associated with every major fire on this side of the mountains since records began over a hundred years ago. It is unusual but just happens on sometimes.

I normally dread the first rains in September. It has been pouring all morning and predicted to continue for the next few days. I am grateful for it this year despite having both roofing and painting jobs to finish before the seasons completely change.

12 posted on 09/22/2020 8:33:42 AM PDT by fireman15
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13 posted on 09/22/2020 8:40:59 AM PDT by Bommer (I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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I’ve lived in California for 50 years. Starting from May to October we don’t get a drop of rain. Everything turns tinder dry, so any fire however it starts has free rain until it is put out.

It’s been like that pretty much forever around here.

I believe my lying eyes.


14 posted on 09/22/2020 8:41:24 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: crz
Before the econazis devastated the wood products industry here my family owned and operated a small lumber mill. My uncle was a forrester and worked for the state when the government still hired non-idiots for that role. I don't know where one can even get a decent non-leftist forestry degree these days.

I remember hang gliding up at Dog Mountain in the 1990s between Randle and Morton two communities which were devastated by the “spotted owl” nonsense. We were confronted frequently by groups of heavy drinking well armed unemployed loggers and lumber mill workers who thought that we were leftists because we were hang gliding. They threatened to blow us out of the air, but none of them ever did because they were all people who despite their sorry situations still knew that you didn't do things like that. They were just hoping to goad us into a physical confrontation so they could kick somebody’s a$$.

These days leftists actually will kill people for no reason.

15 posted on 09/22/2020 8:47:58 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15

Er . . . NO!


16 posted on 09/22/2020 8:50:45 AM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: fireman15
I live in Western Washington, and our summer was a bit cooler and wetter than normal, at least until about mid July. The warm weather then extended until about the second week of September, which is normal. During the summer, we had one or two days over 90 degrees, which is about normal.

The winter and spring were wetter than normal. There was nothing here to suggest that unusual weather caused by climate change had anything to do with the fires, despite what Gov. Inslee claims. In fact, about a month ago, the Director of Public lands said that few if any of the fires were started by lightning strikes, and most appeared to have been caused by human carelessness (cigarettes, campfires, etc.), or - in a couple of cases - arson.
17 posted on 09/22/2020 8:54:31 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Marxist pols were mainly responsible.


18 posted on 09/22/2020 8:56:07 AM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: aquila48
A friend of mine ran an online business where he stocked and sold expensive bicycle parts. He decided to move from the city to out in the country in Idaho. He was able get a good enough Internet connection and ship from his home there with no delay to his customers. Unfortunately, his home and business were destroyed by a forest fire a couple years after he relocated. I have a cousin who lost his home and business the same way in a different fire.

It is great to live out in the country in wooded areas but there are severe risks involved if it is an area that dries out seasonally. My grandson has been working wildland fires for a couple of years now. He has seen a lot of devastation in just the past two years.

19 posted on 09/22/2020 8:56:59 AM PDT by fireman15
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The convenient thing about claiming that climate change is causing these fires (or any other specific weather event) is that the claim is non-falsifiable, and hence dubious as scientific proof. It is a wild card that can be invoked to explain even the most contradictory scenarios.


20 posted on 09/22/2020 8:57:00 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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