Comments by Jim Campbell
August 7th, 2018
The fires of Hell have descended on CA – thank the environmentalists.
This was a disaster waiting to happen and not the cause of so-called climate change.
Better yet, we Americans who live in that vast space located between the coasts could have given you a clue.
Remember when Obama attempted to pander to the countries eco-terrorists by passing by executive order laws that would prohibit ridding our forests of dead underbrush that served as nothing more than tinder for wild fires?
To the contrary, President George W. Bush cut dead trees and underbrush to inhibit debacles our forests are facing. (Source)
Intentionally set or caused by lightning the results are the same.
But then again, it was those who probably never step into a woods made the policies. One of the few legacies of Obama that has now borne fruit.
Diseases are devastating the Forest. It’s the worst of both worlds, small fires are not allowed to burn allowing forests to rejuvenate with new growth and browse necessary to sustain animal life.
Failed Prognostications of Climate Alarm
Watts up with that!
By Rob Bradley writing at IER
“If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit [between now and] the year 2025 to 2050…. The rise in global temperature is predicted to … caus[e] sea levels to rise by one to four feet by the middle of the next century.”
— Philip Shabecoff, “Global Warming Has Begun.” New York Times, June 24, 1988.
It has been 30 years since the alarm bell was sounded for manmade global warming caused by modern industrial society. And predictions made on that day—and ever since—continue to be falsified in the real world.
The predictions made by climate scientist James Hansen and Michael Oppenheimer back in 1988—and reported as model projected by journalist Philip Shabecoff—constitute yet another exaggerated Malthusian scare, joining those of the population bomb (Paul Ehrlich), resource exhaustion (Club of Rome), Peak Oil (M. King Hubbert), and global cooling (John Holdren). (Source)
How can this be? Scientists continue to receive grant money for publishing desired results.
Erroneous Predictive Scares
Appropriate logging has been stopped or severely curtailed thus limiting barriers to these hellish fires as well and help keeping forests healthy.
August 7, 2018 — bunkerville
The Daily Wire
“Hotter, drier, longer forest fires we are witnessing today have nothing to do with dangerous man-made climate change.
They have a lot to do with idiotic forest mismanagement policies and practices.”
This past week, it was reported that California’s wildfires stating that “Since 2012, according to state emergency management officials, there has not been a month without a wildfire burning — a stark contrast to previous decades, when fire officials saw the fall and winter as a time to plan and regroup,”
As California burns, many Californians have asked why the dramatic increase in wildfires in the last five years? Except for Governor Jerry Brown.
Governor Brown claims that devastating fires are the “new normal.” Supporting Obama-era regulations have resulted in the new normal: an endless and devastating fire season.
What’s the significance of 2012?
Obama-Era Eco-Terrorism through Environmental Regulations
Under Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, “the Obama administration finalized a rule governing the management of 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands, establishing a new blueprint to guide everything from logging to recreation and renewable energy development,” The Washington Post reported in 2012.
“The rule will serve as the guiding document for individual forest plans, which spell out exactly how these lands can be used.”
These Obama-era regulations introduced excessive layers of bureaucracy that blocked proper forest management and increased environmentalist litigation and costs — a result of far too many radical environmentalists, bureaucrats, Leftist politicians and judicial activists who would rather let forests burn than let anyone thin out overgrown trees or let professional loggers harvest usable timber left from beetle infestation, or selectively cut timber.
In a 2016 Townhall column, Paul Driessen explains:
Eco-purists want no cutting, no thinning – no using fire retardants in “sensitive” areas because the chemicals might get into streams that will be boiled away by conflagrations.
They prevent homeowners from clearing brush around their homes, because it might provide cover or habitat for endangered species and other critters that will get incinerated or lose their forage, prey and habitats in the next blaze.
They rarely alter their policies during drought years.
The resulting fires are not the “forest-rejuvenating” blazes of environmentalist lore.
They are cauldron-hot conflagrations that exterminate wildlife habitats, roast bald eagle and spotted owl fledglings alive in their nests, boil away trout and trout streams, leave surviving animals to starve, and incinerate every living organism in already thin soils … that then get washed away during future downpours and snow melts.
Areas incinerated by such fires don’t recover their arboreal biodiversity for decades.
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