Probably knits pink hats for the poodles under her command.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Real men would at least require the women who conquer them to be of Amazonian character...
Posted on 01/12/2018 8:59:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — On Tuesday morning, half an inch of water fell in nearby Montecito — half an inch in five minutes. Even in the best of conditions, this pace could cause flooding. But it wasn’t the best of conditions. Last month, we endured the largest wildfire in California history.
We say the extreme rain caused this disaster. We say it was the fire. And we say that multiple years of drought didn’t help. But what caused the rain, the fire and the drought?
There is a clear climate signature in the disaster in Santa Barbara. We know that climate change is making California’s extreme rainfall events more frequent. We know it’s worsening our fires. We know that it contributed substantially to the latest drought.
I have researched climate change policy for over a decade now. For a long time, we assumed that climate policy was stalled because it was a problem for the future. Or it would affect other people. Poorer people. Animals. Ecosystems. We assumed those parts of the world were separate from us. That we were somehow insulated. I didn’t expect to see it in my own backyard so soon.
It is never too soon after one of these disasters to speak truth about climate change’s role. If anything, it is too late. If we do not name the problem, we cannot hope to solve it. For my community, as much as yours, I hope we will.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Lastly, California for years has been basically a desert. That is why few people lived in LA before the huge water projects.”
Bears repeating because this is the central anthropogenic/man-made factor that bears on the problem at hand. This allowed humans to live in a place that was previously naturally hostile to human habitation. Mother Nature/Gaia shall not be trifled with lightly.
Big Oil throws California’s climate change hypocrisy back in its face
....and there were once dinosaurs and more recently the Anasazi vanished from the AZ. desert...or droughts in Africa or other parts of our planet....these are all unstoppable weather patterns for eons, even now; the ebb and flow of life.
Was going to go out for a while but those are the perfect conditions for creating accidents on the highways
Probably knits pink hats for the poodles under her command.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Real men would at least require the women who conquer them to be of Amazonian character...
"...That we were somehow insulated. I didn’t expect to see it in my own backyard so soon..."
Gee, whiz. Never had a fire she saw. Never had rain she saw. Never had a drought she saw. From her CV: "Hons. B.Sc., Department of Psychology and Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto 2007", so I am guessing that will make her...what...32 years old?
Boy, if she lives another 100 or 200 years, she is going to see some things that are going to blow her mind...Mt. Rainier could erupt...there could be a 9.4 quake in California, we could be hit by large asteroid, there could be a huge epidemic of some kind we haven't foreseen...
But hey. She's 32 years old, liberal with a degree in East Asian Studies and Psychology...she has seen it all.
OMG rainfall events MORE frequent CA. has had severe drought for the past 5 years!!! IDIOT!!!
OMG rainfall events MORE frequent CA. has had severe drought for the past 5 years!!! IDIOT!!!
“assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.”
AKA assistant thought director.
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aka Parrot of all the algorisms, with about as much understanding of meteorology as the Star Wars writers have of airflow on a spaceship with both airlock doors open to the vacuum of space
News flash! It’s cold in winter and hot in summer.
Actually, the more frequent fires are directly due to the EnviroNazis refusing to allow the Parks Department to clear out undergrowth and dead trees... aka perfect tinder for wildfires. As is always the case, Liberals scream about the problems that they have created with their own insane policies.
LOL, we know they worship Gaia, so...that would make their heads explode, if they didn't bathe themselves in cognitive dissonance nearly every second of their lives...
My first year at UCSB in 1964 featured a huge fire in the Santa Ynez mountains. No doubt caused by climate change as well. The rainy season for SoCal has always been the winter. Growing up ‘normal’ was green in the winter time and come spring everything would turn brown, which was the hill side color until winter. Big fires followed by heavy rain = mudslides. They don’t like to say it, but several recent big fires were set, either accidentally or on purpose, by politically protected people—either homeless or illegal aliens.
In another environmental area, the Santa Barbara beaches were always covered with tar, long before the oil spill in the late 60s. So much so that our dorm showers had kerosene available to wash our feet.
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“...the largest fire in California history...”
What a load of crap.
Been living in So. Cal. for 50 years and the recent fires were par for the course during fire season. I’ve personally witnessed much larger and far more destructive fires many, many times.
It may be the largest fire SHE has ever witnessed, but it was small potatoes compared to what I have witnessed.
Idiot snowflake. SMH.
“...the largest fire in California history...”
What a load of crap.
Been living in So. Cal. for 50 years and the recent fires were par for the course during fire season. I’ve personally witnessed much larger and far more destructive fires many, many times.
It may be the largest fire SHE has ever witnessed, but it was small potatoes compared to what I have witnessed.
Idiot snowflake. SMH.
She should stick to politics and not confuse political science with REAL science.
Picture shows her young enough to not know sh*t about life and the world at large.
Some places were never meant to host large populations of people on a permanent basis. Just because a place has been habitable for a time, doesn’t mean that time is it’s regular, permanent condition.
The Arctic has been frozen for a very long time. If it became tropical, which it’s been in the past, doesn’t mean it’s going to stay that way.
Yes, climate changes. It changes frequently and regularly. It always has whether or not man has existed. Man has to learn to live within the bounds of nature because nature is not made to obey the desires of man.
It doesn’t take a professorship to understand the KISS principle.
They have tremendous fires because they don’t have a policy to send loggers into the woods to clear out the underbrush and dead wood and to maintain the healthy trees. There’s so much tinder that builds up over time that isn’t cleared away .. and purposely so by the Green Meanies .. it’s as if the forests are being prepped to go up with a “whoosh” in a wall of flame...
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