CO2 Cyclone Doomsday Flat Out Refuted: 170 Years “Absolutely No Trend” In Hurricane Intensity/Frequency

No Tricks Zone ^ | 5-22-2021 | P. Gosselin

[srmanuel]

170 years ago, probably 60 years ago maybe less, no one would have known that storm even existed....which makes recent years seem more active in terms of storms when in reality we can see everything now that would could not 170 years ago..

[crusty old prospector]

Yeah, like the fire around Rocky Mountain National Park.

[woodbutcher1963]

The beetle kill has been going on for 15 years in the Pacific NW US, BC & AB.
The Canadians were very aggressive their efforts to clean up the dead and dying timber. The US forestry/lumber companies also cut as much as possible. However, the USFS and BLM lands were left to rot in many areas. This led and will continue to lead to catastrophic wild fires. Many times the fires started on public land and then spread to private property. Now there is a spruce beetle in Europe that is having similar effects. I do not know their forestry practices, but I suspect they will harvest the timber and turn it into lumber as quickly as they can.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“How do the climate scammers get away with these Myths?? “

They lie and leftist media repeats it often.

[crusty old prospector]

Seems like I heard the bug timber has a weird color and was hard to market. Purple or something.

[woodbutcher1963]

Pine trees/logs get blue stain when they dry out and the temperature gets in the 80-90F degree range. It is one of the reasons why sawmills sprinkle their log decks and try to minimize the pine they cut in the middle of the summer.

If Ponderosa Pine gets blue stain the lumber is not worth as much because Anderson windows, Marvin windows, Woodgrain Door will not take stained shop grade lumber.
Also, the #2 grade appearance boards they sell to Home Depot and Lowes does not allow stain. These are the high grade lumber that the sawmill is trying to maximize.

However, there is a market for Blue Stain pattern boards in various parts of the country. Specifically, CO and OK. OK likes a 1x8 #3 grade run to WP4 pattern(tongue & groove V edge). Colorado likes the same grade and pattern in 1x6.
Some people call this a cabin grade or rustic grade. It has become very popular in the last few years.

[woodbutcher1963]

I wanted to add that with Europe getting into this spruce/pine beetle that a lot of that lumber may end up in the US.
Now that the US market has been getting this blue stained dimension lumber for 15 years every customer is used to it.

European and Japanese customers are much more fussy about the appearance of their framing lumber. So, those sawmills that get the blue stained timber may end up shipping more of it to the US than other world markets.

China will also buy the blue stained lumber because the majority of the lumber they buy goes to concrete forming, pallets and crates.

[hinckley buzzard]

Hurricanes have been down over the long run. No big deal. BTW Anyone interested in a great true account of the Galveston hurricane, and lots of history about weather forecasting in America, read Erik Larsen’s Isaac’s Storm.

[crusty old prospector]

Interesting. Thanks for the color on the color.

[crusty old prospector]

By the way, I sold some pine timber in Texas last year around February. I got $6.50 a ton for pulpwood, $9 a ton for 4” pine, and $14 a ton for Chip ‘n Saw. I wish I would have known that the rise in timber prices was coming.

[woodbutcher1963]

The price being paid for timber really has not changed much in the last few years.
There is no shortage of timber. Especially in AL & MS and New England. The shortage is from the sawmills inability to increase production when demand increased.

Also, there have various short term decreases in production due to covid shutdowns. They are continuing to happen even today. There is a small dimension mill called Marcel Luzon right on the NH/VT/PQ border that down last week because of covid. They will be down for 2 weeks.