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- Climate change is only one piece of this puzzle. The lack of funding for preventive and preparedness activities (these budgets are being cut every year), the frivolous prosecution of fire managers for fatality fires, and the associated policies, rules, and checklists with which firefighters are encumbered have led to an "ultra cautious" firefighting force, even to the point of absurdity.
Climate change is definitely a piece of the puzzle, but don''t fool yourselves, the federal land management agencies are as much to blame as the climate! - Reply to this comment
- Climate change is only one piece of this puzzle. The lack of funding for preventive and preparedness activities (these budgets are being cut every year), the frivolous prosecution of fire managers for fatality fires, and the associated policies, rules, and checklists with which firefighters are encumbered have led to an "ultra cautious" firefighting force, even to the point of absurdity.
Climate change is definitely a piece of the puzzle, but don''t fool yourselves, the federal land management agencies are as much to blame as the climate! - Reply to this comment
- Climate change is only one piece of this puzzle. The lack of funding for preventive and preparedness activities (these budgets are being cut every year), the frivolous prosecution of fire managers for fatality fires, and the associated policies, rules, and checklists with which firefighters are encumbered have led to an "ultra cautious" firefighting force, even to the point of absurdity.
Climate change is definitely a piece of the puzzle, but don''t fool yourselves, the federal land management agencies are as much to blame as the climate! - Reply to this comment
- Climate change is only one piece of this puzzle. The lack of funding for preventive and preparedness activities (these budgets are being cut every year), the frivolous prosecution of fire managers for fatality fires, and the associated policies, rules, and checklists with which firefighters are encumbered have led to an "ultra cautious" firefighting force, even to the point of absurdity.
Climate change is definitely a piece of the puzzle, but don''t fool yourselves, the federal land management agencies are as much to blame as the climate! - Reply to this comment
- Climate change is only one piece of this puzzle. The lack of funding for preventive and preparedness activities (these budgets are being cut every year), the frivolous prosecution of fire managers for fatality fires, and the associated policies, rules, and checklists with which firefighters are encumbered have led to an "ultra cautious" firefighting force, even to the point of absurdity.
Climate change is definitely a piece of the puzzle, but don''t fool yourselves, the federal land management agencies are as much to blame as the climate! - Reply to this comment
- "The facts are that since we have stopped logging there are more fuels to burn therefore more megafires." Pathetic, circular argument. If you cut down all the trees there won''t be any fires at all now will there? Moron.
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- After living "out west" all of my life and watching what is actually happening we can thank the enviromental waccos like Al Gore for what it happening to our forests. I knew when I saw the story that was going to be done that the truth would again be pushed aside to advance the cause of global warming. The facts are that since we have stopped logging there are more fuels to burn therefore more megafires. The fires used to be relegated to a few small areas that had not been logged for various reasons but since we have all but bancrupt the logging industry there is no one to manage the forests and they are becoming overgrown and choked with dead fall. We need to get off our proverbial ***** and start looking at the truth instead of blaming things that we can not change. The "global warming" is cyclical thousands of years ago there were palm trees in Minnesota it is oh so easy to only look back far enough to back up what we want to push as the reason for something. Pull your heads out of your butts and start thinking for yourselves.
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- We have had El Nino''s for a long time........ they cause droughts, hurricanes and rain.
Some parts of the country are experiencing 100yr droughts - CA and SE. Others are experiencing 100 yr rain fall....... North Texas
Global temperature has risen .7C. Not that much and probably not the cause.
Arctic ice retreat? Yes....
Sea rise? Not yet measurable.
Do we have smog and global air contamination? Absolutely and most of it comes from Chinese coal mine fires that they can not extinguish and put more into the air than all US cars.
This was supposed to be a BIG hurricane season. Didn''t happen for the second year in a row.
So, what does that tell us? The Global Warming forecasters are just as good as the weekly forecasters on the TV....... not so good. - Reply to this comment
- I''m really surprised there''s anything left to burn out west.
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- There are several reasons for so much human denial about disturbing events amd ideas, whether it be evolution, global warming, holocosts, etc. Some of the denial is based on superstition--sometimes called religion, some of it is based on greed, and some of it is based on fear of change and the unknown. The best tool we have, as fallible human beings who have not that long ago come down from the trees, is good science. It''s not perfect, but the best method we have to make rational decisions to insure a decent future for our children and beyond. The preponderance of good science tells us we are dwelling on a planet that shows definite signs of massive human abuse which may render it hostile to our own existence. It really doesn''t matter that you can google up dozens of articles denying it or that the the spate of 24 hour "news" stations, hungry to prlong controversy, can find some "scientist" to deny it. Along with all the positive things you can say about the Internet and Information Age, the negative is that arguments are seldom settled any more and therefore action can be delayed indefinitely. For example, you can stil hear ******** Cheney still claiming that he is "entirely persuaded" that Iraq had WMDs or at least had plans for them, or at least had preliminary discussions of plans, or at least drew up plans to have plans for preliminary plans to plan for WMDs...etc.
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