While not a full-bore media hype yet, there are the beginnings of chatter on blogs and Twitter that the Colby fire in Southern California might somehow be related to “climate change”. NASA MODIS has this image and explanation:
Colby Fire Near Los Angeles, California
A wildfire started and spread quickly in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles on January 16, 2014. The plume of ash and smoke blanketed much of the metropolitan area and prompted air quality warnings.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites captured this images of the Colby fire:
According to InciWeb, the fire started around 6 a.m. Pacific Time on January 16 in Angeles National Forest near Glendora, California. As of 3 p.m. local time, nearly 500 firefighters were working the fire, which had destroyed 1,700 acres and at least two homes. Fire officials were concerned about gusty winds and extremely low humidity that could promote fire growth.
References:
- InciWeb: Incident Information System (2014, January 16) Colby Fire. Accessed January 16, 2014.
- Los Angeles Times (2014, January 26) Colby fire: Plume of smike, ask prompts air quality advisories. Accessed January 16, 2014.
- Los Angeles Times (2014, January 26) Wildfire near L.A.: Firefights brace for wind gusts, heat. Accessed January 16, 2014.
NASA image by Holli Riebeek and courtesy LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/colby-fire-near-los-angeles-california/
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So before we get into the blame game of climate change, it might be worth noting that it appears the fires were started by some pothead campers.
Three men arrested in accidentally setting the highly-dangerous Colby Fire plaguing Southern California were found with pot in their backpacks, according to local reports. They are being held on $500,000 bail, according to police Sergeant Michael Hammond at the Glendora Police Department. According to Police Chief Tim Staab, the three men did not set the fire purposefully: “It wasn’t an arson. They are charged with a crime but part of it is criminal stupidity.”
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/3-arrested-ca-fire-had-pot-backpacks
Musta was a accident. Everbody nose weed makes us more smarter.
pokerguy says:
January 17, 2014 at 2:28 pm
@Steve from Rockwood…
Actually had me laughing out loud. As in ALOL…Very funny.
Steve and pokerguy,
Back about 1970, Anita Bryant was the spokeswoman for the Florida orange growers association. She was the first to issue the “Orange Juice, It isn’t just for breakfast anymore!” slogan. A beer company in Wisconsin ran a local parody ad of the orange juice commercial in Wisconsin. (I think it was Leinenkugels beer, might have been Point beer, fuzzy memories… too many beers?) “Leinenkugels, It’s not just for breakfast anymore!” was uttered by a quizzical faced guy in a Tee shirt on a TV ad.
It was a good spoof… but I can’t find any reference to it now, only a memory from my high school years.
“Part of it is criminal stupidity”? If that was a felony, half of congress would serve out mandatory life sentences.
@kaboom – based upon your analysis, it should be criminal then!
Hey, thank you for highlighting that they were “pothead campers”…..was it their pot that started the fire or their campfire?
Because the hysterical “pothead” crap is all you reaply meant to expose….yes?
And when fires are started by persons flicking their cigarette butts out of their window’s, as has happened over and over, do we get the headline “bitchstick suckers”?
Truly though, if you can connect the pot in their backpacks to the fire on the ground, then use your ignorant ranting line. If you are just using the same line pushed in your truthrevolt story, you shouldn’t debase your intelligence in this way.
Again………fires started by bitchstick smokers(how many?)=zero rants about bitchstick smokers.
……………….fires started by people with pot in their backpacks (fully 1)=silly and useless rant on pothead backpack weilding campers.
WOW
@Mac. I had forgotten where the saying came from. Interesting how things stick in your head. Thanks.
Leinenkugels. Is there nothing it can’t do?
At least those homeless guys got a roof over their heads now…
lol, Mac (and Steve) — couldn’t find that ad, but, heeeeere ya go!
“Beer’s Not Just for Breakfast Anymore”
Please. It’s not the weather. It’s not the potheads.
It’s the fuels.
Weather doesn’t burn; fuels burn. In the case of wildfires, the fuel is plant matter. Fuel is a biological phenomenon. Fuel grows and accumulates every year.
Thus, wildfires are BIOLOGICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you live blithe disregard next to a rat nest with 50 years of accumulated hardwood fuels reeking of creosote and other flammable hydrocarbons, and then your home burns down in a wildfire emanating from that rat nest, please don’t blame the neighbor children. It’s your own stupid fault.
Potheads are notorious for their good judgement. Or SLT.
Global warming; is there anything it can’t do?
Fires can only occur in the presence of oxygen and a fuel.
Obviously as fires are increasing, everywhere across the face of the planet,according to the presstitutes of the MSM, it must be because of low slung oxygen, that well mixed excess CO2 is forcing innocent oxygen molecules down from near the ozone layer where they promote excess oxidation of surface materials.
Soon our entire naval fleet will vanish into a pile of ferrous oxide.
Civilization is doomed.
There you go, the new fear of the Cult of Calamitous Carbon.
Sure too be included as fact if there is a AR6.
If this needs sarc… God help the needy.
Mike Dubrasich says: @ur momisugly January 18, 2014 at 4:34 pm
Please. It’s not the weather. It’s not the potheads.
It’s the fuels.
Weather doesn’t burn; fuels burn. In the case of wildfires, the fuel is plant matter. Fuel is a biological phenomenon. Fuel grows and accumulates every year.
Thus, wildfires are BIOLOGICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!….
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
At least someone has figured that out.