In the hands of Democratic politicians, climate change is like systemic racism in the sky: You can’t see it, but it’s everywhere and it’s deadly.
As many WUWT readers know, I’m right in the middle of the wildfires here in Northern California. While it has affected me with power, Internet, and other service outages, plus chocking smoke, I’m OK.
But I’ve had friends dramatically and permanently affected by it. The left wants to blame climate change, and in fact, California Governor Newsom came to Oroville yesterday, unannounced to address the issue. He didn’t even notify local news media, instead bringing Sacramento news media in tow, which caused a bit of a tizzy, and was quite a slap in the face.
Nonetheless, we expected him to lead, we expected him to provide words of comfort to people affected who lost everything, we expected him to praise our first-responders for the heroic work they have done, instead, he browbeat us with a lecture on how it is all “caused by climate change.”
This didn’t sit well with a lot of people, and signs like this appeared as he left the press conference site in the burned out area.
I’ll address Newsom’s incredible climate gaffe later in another post.
But, the gaffe was so big, it reached Tucker Carlson on Fox News, and our local State Assemblyman James Gallagher, was invited on the show. Tucker ripped the “climate crisis” a new one, and Gallagher told it like it was.
Click to watch:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6190083549001?playlist_id=5198073478001#sp=show-clips
If you want to watch Newsom’s press conference, it was posted by TV station KCRA here:
ADDED:
WUWT Contributor Eric Worrall was writing a post while I was writing this one, I’ve combined the effort, he notes:
Climate change in my opinion is once again being used as a convenient political prop to deflect blame for years of failed forestry management policies.
‘Ideological BS’: Amid ashes, governor fires away on climate change
By DON THOMPSON
September 12, 2020 — 1.31pmSacramento: California Governor Gavin Newsom has offered some of his most impassioned comments on climate change, denouncing the “ideological BS” of those who deny the danger and vowing to accelerate the state’s already ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gases.
Newsom spoke against a backdrop of ghost-like trees and ground covered in snow-like grey ash left by the deadliest of the record-breaking fires that have charred huge swathes of California in recent weeks.
“The data is self-evident, the experience that we have in the state of California just underscoring the reality of the ravages of climate change,” he said. “Mother Nature is physics, biology and chemistry. She bats last and she bats 1000. That’s the reality we’re facing, the smash mouth reality — this perfect storm. The debate is over around climate change.”
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Republican state Senator Jim Nielsen and local councillor James Gallagher countered that the cause of recent devastating wildfires and electricity blackouts was “decades of bad policy enacted by Democrats, not climate change.”
“The excuse of climate change cannot be used to deflect from the fundamental failure to address the fuels build-up in our forests that are the cause of these devastating fires,” they said in a statement. “These same misguided policy decisions have led to rolling blackouts and an energy grid that is falling apart.”
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/ideological-bs-amid-ashes-governor-fires-away-on-climate-change-20200912-p55uzd.html
Not sure if I can get away with this here on WUWT by posting under another ‘name’ but I may try. Along the lines of the famed Monty Python skits I would like to post under “eyeswideshut” or something similar following the lead of Monty Python utilizing satire, sarcasm, mockery, lampooning, and wit of the original famed producer. Mods beware!
Diversity (i.e. color judgments): systemic racism, sexism, genderism?, etc. They’re conventional followers of the Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic, ostensibly “secular” quasi-religion adopted by Progressive Churches, which is infamous for its predilection to conflation of logical domains when it i deemed to be politically congruent/convenient.
Just move out of California and take your high tax dollars with you where they will be more appreciated. Voting with your feet is the best solution for these chumps. Tens of thousands of Californians have already figured this out and make this choice everyday.
But the good news is that it looks as if the last person out no longer needs to turn off the lights when they leave.
Gov. Cuomo of New York recently warned Mayor DeBlasio against instituting new taxes on the rich in order to help close NYC’s budget gap. He warned that NYC get’s 50% of it’s budget from the top 1% of income earners (and here I thought the mantra was that the rich aren’t paying their fair share).
I’m guessing that Cuomo is worried that if DeBlasio drives the rich out of NYC, they might decide to leave the state altogether, and that would blow a hole in Cuomo’s budgets as well.
Bunches of them have already left the state and taken their businesses with them.
Still giving the science is settled argument, in this case nature did it. And it is all our fault.
@ur momisugly Doonman is right Anthony, you should leave while you can get something out of your property. If I were in your shoes I’d look at South Dakota with where Governor Kristi Noem has used common sense as a leader.
Here in Arizona, there are bumper stickers appearing that say, “Don’t California my Arizona.”
Now I’d hugely welcome Anthony to Tucson. I’m sure he’d be quite a hit visitng the UA campus and their tree rign lab. But too many of the middle class fleeing Calizuela are also bringing their failed Liberal politics with them to their new states. Arizona is slowly turning blue because of it. We’ve got Mark Kelly, a gun grabber, being supporter financially by Hollywood and East Coast Liberals running against Republican Senator Martha McSally to try to take the US Senate from the GOP’s control. Astronut Kelly’s campaign is being flooded with out of state donations to turn not just here in AZ Blue but the very consequential US Senate.
Here in Tucson, we just had the ignorant Tucson Mayor and City Council declare a “climate emergency,” as if on cue from a coordinated national political campaign to push the agenda. It of course means nothing other than symbolically. But still that ignorant kind of thinking from Democrats is slowly infected the dumbed down population.
For Democrats, campaign finance laws are something they don’t have to worry about.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-data-shows-that-half-of-2019-donations-to-actblue-came-from-untraceable-unemployed-donors
The problem is the media doesn’t care how many laws the Democrats break. All they care is winning and getting the power to steal other people’s money.
“The problem is the media doesn’t care how many laws the Democrats break.”
That *is* the problem. The Democrats can do anything they want to do. They can attempt a coup and the media pretends nothing is happening.
Joel
I suggest a slight tweak: “Don’t Californicate Arizona!”
Here in the Phoenix area we also have a reverse The Grapes-of-Wrath problem: well-off
Californians moving here but bringing their voting proclivities too.
[My condolences to you for having to deal with Rep. Grijalva]
Oregon, Washington, and California Democrats are gonna have a tough time emotionally dealing with 4 1/2 more years of President Trump. They should start medicating now.
If
rebellious turdstoads like Governors Jay Inslee, Gavin Newsom and Kate Brown want to think about their state seceding from the Union because they hate President Donald Trump, they should keep in mind that southern Democrats who participated in the Confederacy during the War of Secession after having previously sworn an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution.Those 1860-1861 Democrats running those states rejected the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and then attempted to secede in rebellion. Under the 14th Amendment, having taken an oath to defend the US Constitution and then participated in an insurrection agains the US, they lost the right to ever hold political office again . Every single one, down to judges and Confederate government officials, who participated in the Confederate rebellion never held political office again, banned for life unless COngress by 2/3 vote in both chambers removed the disability.
There is nothing in the constitution that bans secession, so secession can’t be unconstitutional.
Hmm, one can easily look at it the other way. There is not provision for succession and so it is not Constitutional. Besides that, name one single nation with a permanent (not provisional) government which provides for that countries dissolution under any circumstances. I know of none.
Further. The Constitution replaced that Articles of Confederation with a strong federalist system because the Articles did not bind the states strongly enough. The last paragraph of the preamble to those articles is:
” Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.”
Key words “perpetual Union”.
But really this is an academic argument. The founders knew that no words can hold a state or states that had made up their mind to try and leave the Union. Only force of arms can resolve such a dispute as our own Civil War aptly demonstrates.
We don’t live in China, where everything that isn’t permitted is forbidden.
Since the constitution doesn’t ban it directly, it’s permitted.
Then I guess I can commit murder and it’s permitted.
That’s a state responsibility, not federal.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Secession without consent would seem to fit the bill.
I don’t see anything in that section that refers to secession, much less bans it.
Secession is not making an agreement with a foreign power, and once the state is no longer a state, constitutional restrictions don’t apply to it anymore.
Real time fire map. The Windy of Real Time Assessment tools.
Says Oregon, but covers the whole country. Many additional layers available, like Air Quality, Youtube, etc…
Raptor 2 Public:
https://geo.maps.arcgis.com/apps/PublicInformation/index.html?appid=f8a0d8814a67445a9e6bf3485f4fd24f#!
EXCLUSIVE: Trump appears in Portland to admonish sinful BLM/anitfa arsonist rioters.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1304847660457709568
Newsom, Pelosi and Mann and three fraudster peas in the same ignoramus pod.
Central Washington USA has gotten increasingly smoky throughout today (9/12/2020), some more or less local fire, but most from Oregon and California that got lofted. Cliff Mass has had reports. Still, I’ll guess we have 85% daylight, just a bit yellow.
When I was small (1950), a fire in Canada — <Chinchaga — blotted out the Sun in Western Pennsylvania and the smoke went on to Europe. See “The Great Smoke Pall” in the link. That fire started in Northern British Columbia and “is the single largest recorded fire in North American history
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Many comments here and elsewhere blame forest mis-management for the fires. Actually, the notion is a bit backwards. The reason for massive fires is partly attributable to Smokey Bear. Smokey and the slogan “Smokey Says – Care Will Prevent 9 out of 10 Forest Fires”- – began in 1944.
Studies now suggest that 84% of wild fires are ignited by something that humans are involved in, and there are now more humans. The Western States now have massive amounts of grass, brush, and trees.
There is no good way of getting rid of most of it. We have entered the Era Of Megafires.
https://www.ted.com/speakers/paul_hessburg
There is a very good way of getting rid of most of it. Burn it when the weather is favorable for containment. The three factors that make for wild fires are: the moisture in the fuel, the moisture in the air, and the wind speed and direction.
All three contribute to fires that burn hot, burn through fuel quickly, and spread to new fuel before you can deal with the current fire.
Burning under optimum containment conditions is the best method, so you are prepared, and the fire is slow to burn, slow to spread, and provide sections of low fuel that will act as a break to future fires.
First remove fuel from the vicinity of power lines. That should be step one. Then clear fuel from residential areas, and make fire breaks in more remote areas. If nothing else it will give you time to slow down the fires to get people out, and fire crews in. Lastly there are known areas that are predisposed to Santa Ana winds that first dry out everything, before igniting it like a blow torch. Those sections need to be cleared of fuel, regularly. They are the unique characteristic that turns manageable fires into wild fires. They go off like a bomb spreading fires for miles so quickly that there is little that can be done, but run for your life.
“There is no good way of getting rid of most of it. We have entered the Era Of Megafires.”
Biomass energy has been proven to work—-wood gasification is how I’ve heated my
home for many years and how much of Europe has heated their houses for generations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZysZ-sPXY
Canada build several plants to deal with the issue of dead trees..
both energy plants and fuel pellet plants. I know a engineer from
NY that worked on the feed system on a plant 15is yrs ago.
It’s almost as if the political structure doesn’t want a solution.
I agree with your point. But the west coast is not conducive to harvesting of biomass. Most of the areas that are fire prone are mountainous and too rugged terrain for machinery to haul tonnage of biomass. It can be done for lumber, because wood has greater value for a construction material than it does for energy.
At some point we may be able to do this in a way that is not too expensive and dangerous. For now I think we will have to do this for areas that are close to residential and power lines, because they are more sensitive to fire and smoke.
Then if we are able to do that successfully it can be expanded to cover more areas that are accessible to vehicles. Within twenty years we could have robots that do most of this work for us, and we would just have to maintain them and direct their movement based on our priorities and our understanding of historical problem areas.
I’ve never looked at the financial engineering of the national forest
firefighting machine but given how things are being managed
I might be inclined to think that CALPER’s & other public retirement
fund money is behind the management of
wildfire, eg who is managing the money behind the resources
fighting these fires. Investing in jet slurry bombers vs
chippers at the landing, also given how CA has spent
on wind and solar vs disruptive biomass.
I live in W MT and know a bit about logging…if
it was determined by those in power to manage
these land it would be done.
A solution is hanging arsonists, whether labeled a peaceful protesters or otherwise.
I read in an article today that the California fire season now lasts 75 days longer than it used to. That’s a long time. Where do they come up with such “facts”?
What precisely defines the beginning and end of the “California fire season”? It could be 356 days or it could be 30 days based on what the criteria is. I am sure it is easy to make it seem worse than it is compared to the past, based on how you define it.
Too much drought and it begins to wain because there is not enough fuel. Too much rain and the fire season may be light this year and bad next year, or even the year after.
And the spacing of rain events is important to how severe the current year is, versus how much fuel is accumulating, but not currently dry enough to contribute to large fires.
Saying it is climate change is the same as saying it is due to “witches”. It is a abdication of responsibility by those who have the responsibility to monitor the fuel load, and how dry it is, and did not do what is required..
Naturally the fires on the west coast are branded, like every year, of a sure sign of climate change. But please stop using Tucker Carlson as an expert on the subject. If you want to convince people that it is overdone stop quoting Trumpers and stick to the science.
Science by itself will do nothing to stop the cult of “climate change”. Only public ridicule and their lockout of power will do that. Trumpers are key, as there is no other group, including the church, standing in the way of this new form of paganism.
Newsome is full of it. The actual data shows nothing like what he says.
average CA precipitation from 1930 to present:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/statewide/time-series/4/pcp/12/8/1930-2020?base_prd=true&begbaseyear=1930&endbaseyear=2000&trend=true&trend_base=10&begtrendyear=1930&endtrendyear=2020
Wow. There’s actually been a small 0.1″ increase.
And here’s the annual average temperature for the same period:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/statewide/time-series/4/tavg/12/9/1930-2020?base_prd=true&begbaseyear=1930&endbaseyear=2000&trend=true&trend_base=10&begtrendyear=1930&endtrendyear=2020
A big whooping 2 deg F (and we know that’s probably inflated due to “adjustment” and UHI effects)
(Sorry I couldn’t get these to come out as clickable links)
Don’t know if this has been posted, but in prehistory, these fires in California and Oregon today were BELOW the mean on an annual basis.
The lack of management means the forests are now shifting back the regime in pre-settlement times. This means large numbers of fires everywhere.
Let that sink in. These fires are still below the ANNUAL acreage burned each year.
” Our estimate of prehistoric annual area burned in California is 88% of the total annual
wildfire area in the entire US during a decade (1994–2004) characterized as ‘‘extreme’’ regarding wildfires.
The idea that US wildfire area of
approximately two million ha annually is extreme is certainly a 20th or 21st century perspective. Skies were likely smoky much of the summer and
fall in California during the prehistoric period.”
https://www.sierraforestlegacy.org/Resources/Conservation/FireForestEcology/FireScienceResearch/FireHistory/FireHistory-Stephens07.pdf
This is mother nature at her normal.
CO2 smothers fires.
Here is an article from CBC quoting “experts” from California. Anyone know any of the names?
Then they have this thing they call “attribution” which uses “computer modelling” to assign blame to “climate change”.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/california-wildfires-climate-change-1.5659909
Hopeless in Sacramento
Hey Anthony, still waiting for you to get your UHI paper peer-reviewed like you have promised me you would do over and over again. What’s it been, like 8 years since you said you would do so?