Ecowatch -California Governor Jerry Brown unequivocally blamed climate change for the [forest fire] devastation.
"This is not the new normal," he said Sunday, as reported by The Sacramento Bee. "This is the new abnormal, and this new abnormal will continue certainly in the next 10 to 15 years."
The fires were also driven by hot winds from the east that further dried vegetation already parched from unusually low rainfall, as University of Nevada atmospheric scientist Neil Lareau explained in Wired. But climate change makes that worse.
"All of it is embedded in the background trend of things getting warmer," Lareau explained. "The atmosphere as it gets warmer is thirstier."
Tellingly, five of the 10 most destructive California fires listed by ABC 7 News occurred in the past two years.
But that wasn't the line taken by President Donald Trump, who blamed poor forest management, not global warming, for the blazes. In a tweet Saturday, he even threatened to withdraw federal money if the state didn't improve management.
In fact, the federal government owns 57 percent of California's forested land, while state agencies only control three percent. The rest is owned by private individuals, families, companies or Native American tribes, according to University of California data.
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As usual, there may be more than one issue at play for a given event.
Here's my recent posting on Twitter:
The aluminum hydroxide in geoengineering chem trails, like the quality of mercy, is not strained (by the atmosphere); it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon place beneath, where it adds to the propensity of dry brush to ignite upon the careless whim of man or nature...
Other responses to the Tweet I posted this to, suggested that PG&E may have been somewhat remiss in the management of their infrastructure.
Still other posts indicated that people had observed what could have been an artificial start of the fire and as in previous years' fires, melted artifacts within the burn zone that would have withstood normal brush and tree fire temperatures... indicating that some other flammable agent was present and involved.
Others merely say that some places aren't suitable for buiding homes, or even cities. The hillside mudslide locations for homes in souther CA come to mind.
TPR is a source for various articles, which taken in whole help the reader focus on current events. There seems to be more to this story than just a debate over climate change vs forestry management.
It may be that our whole solar system is moving into an area of our local part of the galaxy that is inherently warmer. In such case, whatever else the universe has planned for our Earth, it will be warming up without any help from fossil fuel use. Let's prepare for warming and adhere to general best practices, out of principle rather than urgent necessity.
Cheers, Tom
Tom Puckett seems to know about as much as Trump about what is going on. Nothing
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