Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
The L A Times published yet another climate alarmist Ca. wildfire story quoting Gov. Brown claim that the states recent wildfires are driven by man made “greenhouse gases”.
The Gov. offered the following assessment:
“The more serious predictions of warming and fires to occur later in the century, 2040 or 2050, they’re now occurring in real time,” Brown said at a news conference at the state’s emergency operations center outside Sacramento.”
“Brown, who met with top fire and emergency response officials, said the state would spend whatever is needed to combat the blazes. But he said the current conditions are part of a long cycle that began with the rapid rise in greenhouse gases caused by human activity.”
The Gov. has made these flawed claims before as noted below even though the states forest management policy leadership had clearly identified the failure of a century long practice of unnatural wildfire suppression policies that has allowed the built up huge amounts of wildfire fuel materials that were greatly increasing the risks for more dangerous and damaging wildfires.
In October 18, 2015 L. A. Times article wildfire experts unsupportive of Brown’s position noted that:
“Today’s forest fires are indeed larger than those of the past, said National Park Service climate change scientist Patrick Gonzalez.
At a symposium sponsored by Brown’s administration, Gonzalez presented research attributing that trend to policies of fighting the fires, which create thick underlayers of growth, rather than allowing them to burn.
“We are living right now with a legacy of unnatural fire suppression of approximately a century,” Gonzalez told attendees.”
This century long policy of fire suppression and its impact of Ca. wildfires is further reflected in a 2015 University of California Berkeley study which noted:
“National parks and other protected areas clearly provide an important function in removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it,” said Battles. “But we also know from previous research that a century of fire suppression has contributed to a potentially unsustainable buildup of vegetation. This buildup provides abundant fuel for fires that contribute to carbon emissions.”
This most recent L A Times article fails to address these flawed forest management policies largely championed by environmentalists as being responsible for the present wildfire challenges being experienced in the state and instead tries to falsely speculate that man made greenhouse gases are the culprit.
The Times continues to promote its climate alarmism propaganda campaign by hiding the forest management fire suppression policy failures of the state as well ignoring the role played by Gov. Brown and the legislature in these failures.
The L A Times seems incapable of addressing real world issues regarding the states climate and energy policy.
Is it possible that catastrophes such as the wildfires in the western states could have more that one cause — for example, both mismanagement of forests and underbrush AND global warming? This would mean that global warming is, among other things, going to make us pay for our mistakes in a way that we have not had to do before.
Why take blame for your mistakes when you have a corrupt mainstream media that will support and repeat your lies blaming everyone else?
And from USA Today, which I tend to ignore-
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-03/90-wildfires-are-caused-people-not-climate-change
The forests that are the healthiest are those that are owned by private timber concerns that have long-term, truly sustainable, interests in the assets that forests represent.
Oh, and I’m sure we need more tax money for the bullet train that will speed us from Fresno to Madera.
A flat tire started the deadly Carr Fire and days of devastation in California
People like Gov. Brown need to be taken to task for fraud and lying to the people about such serious matters. I think there should be a new criminal code section that prohibits this kind of misinformation from fear mongering the general public, like Nazis did etc. they like to make erroneous claims when free thinking people call out the climate lies.
If the fires are due to “greenhouse gases” which the left has been parading about for the last 20. Years, why on earth didn’t they prepare the forests for that?? If you are such a proponent of global warming why are the forests throughout Tuolumne County piled 5 feet high with pine needles?
“Brown . . . said the current conditions are part of a long cycle that began with the rapid rise in greenhouse gases caused by human activity.”
The rising part of the current cycle of CO2 fluctuation (as has been evidenced by multiple rising and falling cycles of atmospheric CO2 concentration in Earth’s past history) actually began about 20,000 years ago around the time of the last glacial maximum. It then rose from a low point of about 185 ppm to about 270 ppm about 10,000 years ago. (It did not decline since then but instead resumed its upward rise about 200 years ago.)
By his statement, Mr. Brown must believe human-activity caused that first part of the rise.
Gov. Moonbeam
To prevent wildfires, replace your “environmental officers” with commercial loggers. They will cut down old dead woods to plant new trees.
People like Brown only listen to experts when the experts agree with the latest orthodoxy. Often folks like Moonbean even go expert shopping.
Or maybe they started the fires to get federal funds