Posted on 12/09/2017 10:49:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
Devastating wildfires fueled by climate change are “the new normal”, California’s governor has said.
Jerry Brown said vast fires, such as the ones that have ravaged southern California in recent days, “could happen every year or every few years”.
“We’re facing a new reality in this state,” he said. Mr Brown made the comments after surveying the damage in Ventura County, north of Los Angeles.
Thousands of firefighters have been battling the fires since Monday.
Mr. Brown, a Democrat who has attacked the Trump administration’s stance on climate change, said: “We’re facing a new reality in this state, where fires threaten people’s lives, their properties, their neighborhoods, and of course billions and billions of dollars. With climate change, some scientists are saying southern California is literally burning up.” …
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The return to the long term historic pattern of rainfall for the west coast, after a century and a half of wetter than normal weather for California, is the real story.
Fire prone habitats develop species which require the heat to release their seeds, or chemicals from fire to sprout. A managed forest with brush overgrowth, the result of total fire suppression, interferes with renewal of native vegetation.
We have had fires in SoCal for decades. Since before the first time whacko moonbeam was governor.
So the governor is correct in a sense. It is normal; albeit just not new.
By accident, then. He’s trying to blame “climate change”, of course.
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