Posted on 10/20/2020 6:35:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Cameron Peak fire, a few miles west of Fort Collins, Colorado, has engulfed over 200,000 acres and it's still growing. It has now become the biggest wildlife in Colorado history.
This year Mother Nature has supplied us with smoking-gun evidence to prove what climate scientists have been warning about for decades. The scorched-earth impacts of climate change have arrived.
In a letter the editor published in the journal Global Change Biology, two of the world's foremost experts on wildfires conclude that the "[r]ecord-setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States."
"Our 2020 wildfire season is showing us that climate change is here and now in Colorado. Warming is setting the stage for a lot of burning across an extended fire season," says Dr. Jennifer Balch, professor of fire ecology and director of Earth Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.
"Even as a scientist studying extreme weather & wildfire in a warming climate, I was shocked by how fast #CalwoodFire roared down the Colorado Front Range foothills," Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, wrote on Twitter, posting video of a swirling vortex of smoke.
Examining all the evidence, it's clear why conditions are extraordinarily flammable this fall. It's a compound issue of short-term natural climate variability layered on top of fundamental changes to the long-term climate from global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
BS.
It just proves that the Democrat controller government has been negligent with forest management.
“show” should be in quotes and nothing else.
maybe also “is”
The outdated 195 nation state system can’t deal with these global problems. I suggest we create some sort of sovereign global organization in their place. Lets destroy old communities and create new ones
And of course those CBS “reporters” all got As in the graduate physics courses that they took. /s
(In truth, we know that they ALL failed “physics for dolts & journalism majors 101).
That, and OANN reported yesterday that the initial spark of the Cameron Peak Fire appears to be human.
Which means you should manage your forests even more. How many millions of tons of CO2 do these fires release?
And when you are also getting people (most of them likely very liberal) moving out into these areas for their dream retirement homes but that the wildfires are part of the natural life cycle there, so probably that very dumb idea to think you can live out in those areas.
Colorado’s record-breaking wildfires show “climate change is here and now”
Perhaps it might show arson.
I think this thinking is based on a superficial expectation that warm weather means more fires. Because heat.
But I think what fires really want is dryness. Apart from bad forest management, I think increased dryness is why you may have big fires.
And my understanding is that a warming climate sees more evaporation and more precipitation. The Sahara shrinks during warming cycles because warm cycles are wet cycles.
I believe that big fires caused by dryness are an indication of a cooling cycle.
A dead tree laying on the ground will release a certain amount of CO2. It will either be released slowly over time as they rot, or all at once if they burn.
Hilarious. Spend decades enforcing policies that create a tangled mess of dry fuel. Blame global warming. Oops. Scratch global warming. Let’s further obfuscate and call it climate change. Next it will be magic unicorn follies.
So they’re going to press China to stop building 2 coal fired power plants every month?
Which is why you harvest it to put it in a house.
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