This image captured at 10:45AM yesterday, by the Landsat8 satellite shows the town of Paradise, CA fully engulfed in the fire. I have added annotations to the image to help…
Category: Wildfires
Huge #CampFire seen from space by GOES satellite
Here is a short video of the GOES16 satellite imagery of the extremely dangerous, fast-moving “Camp” wildfire in wildland-urban interface currently burning through Paradise, California at an estimated 80 acres…
VIDEO Nightmare evacuations from Northern California wildfire #CampFire
Fire started at just before 6:30AM, and has been driven by fierce winds in excess of 50mph. Now over 17,000 acres. This is some of the scenes from evacuation going…
The ‘New Normal’ for Western Forest Fires – Not Necessarily
Dealing with Forest Fire Risk Guest essay by Don Healy Looking out on smoke and ash filled vistas while reading about the Carr, Mendocino and numerous other forest fires raging…
NASA alarmism headline: ‘A World On Fire’
From NASA Goddard. The world is on fire. Or so it appears in this image from NASA’s Worldview. The red points overlaid on the image designate those areas that by…
Gov. Brown blames “greenhouse gases” for his flawed forest management policy leading to wildfire devastation
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…
A Geological Perspective of Wildfires
Guest essay by David Middleton Warning: This is a long post, >5,200 words. Introduction This post was inspired by Anthony Watts’ recent post about wildfires and their unwillingness to cooperate…
#CarrFire – Satellite Shows California Shrouded in Smoke
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural color image of the fires in California and the resultant smoke that has shrouded the state and swept eastward as far as Salt Lake…
#CarrFire doubles overnight, from 48,312 to 80,906 acres
The news is not good. Video and satellite imagery follow. From Action News Now, interviewing a CalFire official: The “Carr Fire” burning in Shasta County has grown to 80,906 acres…
#CarrFire in Northern California so big it is making it’s own weather
Video of a “fire tornado” follows. My friend Kris Kuyper writes on Facebook: BIG Pyrocumulus clouds now forming above the smoke plume of the #CarrFire! The dirty part on the bottom…
Remember when we were told that wildfires would increase due to global warming? Never mind.
This paper was just published in the Royal Society Biological Sciences journal. The takeaways: “Global area burned appears to have overall declined over past decades, and there is increasing evidence…
Remember when the massive California wildfires of 2017 were blamed on global warming? Never mind.
On June 8th, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) made its first official announcement via press release that 12 big Northern California wildfires in October 2017…
While Jerry Brown claims ‘climate change’ is the source of the Thomas fire, NASA demonstrates that it’s weather helping to put it out
From NASA Goddard: What a difference a few days can make in the life cycle of a fire. In this particular case, the Thomas Fire that is ongoing in the…
Jerry Brown vetoed enhanced requirements for undergrounding power lines, blames CA wildfires on nebulous “climate change”
While Brown proclaims larges wildfires “the new normal”, here’s some scrutiny on his own incompetence in preventing wildfires Guest essay by Larry Hamlin In September 2016 California Governor Brown vetoed…
California sets new record for longest ever wildfire warning
Thomas Fire Still Growing Under Longest Running Red Flag Warning Brown smoke continues to spew from the Thomas Fire in this image captured by the Aqua satellite on December 14,…
Is climate change REALLY the culprit causing California’s wildfires?
We’re told that climate change caused or intensified California’s wildfires — and that such fires are getting worse. As usual for such scary stories, these claims are only weakly supported…
Wildfires: Separating Demagoguery from the Science
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Published in Range…
Deconstructing the Climate Demagoguery of the Wine Country Wildfire Tragedies
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism As sure as…
Inoculating forests against forest fires
From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO Fighting fires before they spark University of New Mexico research could impact forest management around the world With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat…
Finally, some commonsense western fire policies
New DOI and DOA policy to cut overgrown, diseased, dead and burned trees is long overdue Paul Driessen President Trump promised to bring fresh ideas and policies to Washington. Now…
Forest fires discovered during the cold climate of the last ice-age
Forest fires are not limited to hot or temperate climates A joint Canada-France study shows that there were wildfires in the Alps during an ice age 20,000 years ago UNIVERSITY…
Finding: Forest fires in Sierra Nevada driven by past land use – not climate
From the University of Arizona and Penn State comes this inconvenient finding. Forest fire activity in California’s Sierra Nevada since 1600 has been influenced more by how humans used the land…
Debunking the L A Times story claiming new study shows human caused warming doubled western U.S. area burned since 1984
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The October 10, 2016 Times article addresses a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences where the authors claimed that through…
Claim that wildfires are on increase due to 'climate change' is shown to be 'a prescribed result' of climate models
Read All About It! Heat Dries Things Up! By PATRICK J. MICHAELS and PAUL C. “CHIP” KNAPPENBERGER No one doubts that much of the West, especially California, has been very…
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