The chief cause of the California wildfires is the total lack of forest management there. When you prohibit logging, forest thinning, controlled burns and similar practices, the forest floor becomes lined with dead branches, trees and other easily ignited litter. Once a fire gets started, it not only has an abundance of fuel on the forest floor, but the density of the trees gives it all the oomph it needs to become the lead story on the evening news.
The chief cause of the California wildfires is the total lack of forest management there. When you prohibit logging, forest thinning, controlled burns and similar practices, the forest floor becomes lined with dead branches, trees and other easily ignited litter. Once a fire gets started, it not only has an abundance of fuel on the forest floor, but the density of the trees gives it all the oomph it needs to become the lead story on the evening news.
The chief cause of the California wildfires is the total lack of forest management there. When you prohibit logging, forest thinning, controlled burns and similar practices, the forest floor becomes lined with dead branches, trees and other easily ignited litter. Once a fire gets started, it not only has an abundance of fuel on the forest floor, but the density of the trees gives it all the oomph it needs to become the lead story on the evening news.
So you want to rake the forest floor? Here is some perspective: The amount of just forest land in California is 5.5 times the size of New Hampshire, or 1.4 times the size of NH, VT, MA, CT, and RI combined. You better get busy!
Can we humans affect the worldwide climate? I doubt it.
Can we humans affect the worldwide climate? I doubt it.
Droughts are nothing new or unexpected in California. The most significant statewide multi-year droughts occurred during 1918-1920, 1928-35, 1947-1950, 1987-1992, 2000-2002, and 2007-09. And while we see some unusual weather events now and then, the NOAA scientists that analyze weather patterns don't look at any cycles less than 50 year periods. So just because it's dry, wet. hot, etc. for 10 years, doesn't really count for anything more than a short-term phenomenon. As far as climate change .... sure the climate changes. It always has. We've had ice ages in the past and the planet warmed and the ice melted - all with no humans or cows spewing stuff into the atmosphere. Can we humans affect the worldwide climate? I doubt it. I remember the good scientists telling us back in 1973 that an impending ice age was ready to freeze us all out of existence because we were blocking the sun's rays from warming the Earth.
From the John Locke Foundation:
"Climate experts believe the next ice age is on its way…within a lifetime…" Leonard Nimoy 1978
The really sad part of all this is that Leonard Nimoy was right. In 1978 this is what "climate experts" believed. Like today, they were blaming the weather on humans and their polluting lifestyles. And, like today, part of the problem, along with particulate matter, was the evil carbon dioxide. As one government scientist concludes according to this 1970 article in the St. Petersburg Times, "doubling CO2 in the atmosphere…would raise surface temperatures by 3.6 Fahrenheit and [here’s the kicker] cool the lower stratosphere some 27 degrees." Holy iceberg, Batman!!!
Below you’ll find similar hysterics from the 1970s global cooling alarmist crowd in a long (but partial) list of 100 newspaper and magazine articles from the period. I wonder, after 15 years of no global warming, when will we start to view the hundreds if not thousands of scare stories from newspapers, magazines, and TV newscasts over the last 20 years with the same sense of humor with which we now view these stories from 40 years ago? Have fun!
Science w/o politics is rare, if it exists at all. All scientists depend on grants for their own survival. Most grants depend on who's in office and what policies and programs they favor. If it was proven tomorrow that there is no climate change taking place, just think how many scientists would be packing up their desks.About the John Locke Foundation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke_Foundation
I'll take my science without the politics.
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1970 – Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age – Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
1970 – Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 – Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century (Boston Globe, April 16, 1970)
1971 – Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground (The Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971)
1971 – Pollution Might Lead To Another Ice Age (Schenectady Gazette, March 22, 1971)
1971 – U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
1971 – Ice Age Around the Corner (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)
1971 – New Ice Age Coming – It’s Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)
1972 – Weather To Get Colder (Montreal Gazette, September 12, 1972)
1972 – British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)
1972 – Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972)
1972 – Science: Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)
1972 – Ice Age On Its Way, Scientist Says (Toledo Blade, December 13, 1972)
1973 – The Ice Age Cometh (The Saturday Review, March 24, 1973)
1973 – Possibility Of Ice Age Worries The Scientists (The Argus-Press, November 12, 1973)
1974 – New evidence indicates ice age here (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974)
1974 – Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)
1974 – 2 Scientists Think ‘Little’ Ice Age Near (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)
1974 – Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)
1974 – Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974)
1974 – Scientists Fear Smog Could Cause Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 5, 1974)
**** 1974 CIA Report on climate change (or here) ****
1975 – Climate Changes Called Ominous (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)
1975 – B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Cooling Trends Arouse Fear That New Ice Age Coming (Eugene Register-Guard, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade(Youngstown Vindicator, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Is Earth Headed For Another Ice Age? (Reading Eagle, March 2, 1975)
1975 – New Ice Age Dawning? Significant Shift In Climate Seen (Times Daily, March 2, 1975)
1975 – The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate (The Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975)
1975 – The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)
1975 – Cooling trend may signal coming of another Ice Age (The Sun, May 16, 1975)
1975 – Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975)
1975 – Summer of A New Ice Age (The Age, June 5, 1975)
1975 – In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975)
1975 – Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 11, 1975)
1976 – Ice Age Predicted (Reading Eagle, January 22, 1976)
1976 – Ice Age Predicted In Century (Bangor Daily News, January 22, 1976)
1976 – It’s Going To Get Chilly About 125 Years From Now (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 23, 1976)
1976 – Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)
1977 – The Ice Age Cometh… (New York Magazine, January 31, 1977)
1977 – The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)
1977 – Space Mirrors Proposed To Prevent Crop Freezes (Bangor Daily News, February 7, 1977)
1977 – We Will Freeze in the Dark (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977)
1978 – Winter May Be Colder Than In Last Ice Age (The Deseret News, January 2, 1978)
1978 – Winter Temperatures Colder Than Last Ice Age (Eugene Register-Guard, Eugene Register-Guard, January 3, 1978)
1978 – Winters Will Get Colder, ‘we’re Entering Little Ice Age’(Ellensburg Daily Record, January 10, 1978)
1978 – Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978)
1978 – It’s Going To Get Colder (Boca Raton News, January 17, 1978)
1978 – The Coming Ice Age (In Search Of TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, Host: Leonard Nimoy, May 1978)
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