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Worst California fireseason in recorded history, and we have a long way to go yet...
The Associated Press: Crews stamp out flames in Paradise, Calif. blaze
Terrible fires. Coming from a country that lives with them I can only wish the fireighters and citizens can get on top of these fires. Forget the politics, bushfires are endemic to certain terrains and California is one of them. Where I live our biggest forest industries use pinus radiata (you call it Monterey Pine) which we imported from California, so we know what it's like when fire takes hold in those forests.
The point is Fires have always been a problem in So Cal. It is only now that so many people live there that we always hear about them. Also many of the fires are found to be arson or started by people on accident.
Yep and as more and more people move into the areas effected it will only get worse, But I assume you are using this of more proof we are all going to die from GW soon right?
About 20,000 firefighters from 41 states and Puerto Rico were fighting more than 320 active fires around the state, and more were on the way from Mexico, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered 2,400 National Guard troops to join the fire crews on the ground for the first time in more than 30 years.
The point is Fires have always been a problem in So Cal. It is only now that so many people live there that we always hear about them. Also many of the fires are found to be arson or started by people on accident.
California is drier now than at anytime in recorded history. In June there were 1,500 fires burning most started by lightening storms. And there is this from the article I posted.....
"Officials say more fires have been burning at one time this year than during any other period in recorded California history.
"This is truly a national disaster. The magnitude is incredible," said Daniel Berlant, a state fire agency spokesman.
U.S. Forest Service spokesman Jason Kirchner said firefighters have spent hundreds of millions of dollars fighting the blazes, and that doesn't include the economic cost to businesses, tourism and agriculture, or the impact on air and water quality.
Officials warn the state could suffer a lot more because fire danger is typically highest in Southern California in the fall, when hot dry wind could scour hillsides desiccated by a two-year drought.
"The ground is set for some really horrific events, bigger than we've seen so far," Max Mortiz, co-director of the University of California Center for Fire Research & Outreach. The conditions show a need for more research into the patterns of weather, wind and geography that could show where fires are likely to flare into infernos, he added."
The Rush Limbaugh Show - June 9th, 2008
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: "There was a story over the weekend about drought in California. It turns out the reason for the drought is a federal judge who made a decision in January to stop the flow of water from the Sacramento Delta to the southern part of the state because a fish had gotten somehow entangled in the pumps. And so for half the year, maybe seven months, the people of California had to deal with less water so that a fish would not be harmed by pumps! I know that I joke about the circumstance here in Florida -- all along the East Coast -- with the turtle lights and so forth, but it's all the same."
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Here is part of the reason why Cali is seeing an even worse drought this year:
I am looking for the ruling to post. Rush has it right. Environmentalists and their unintended consequences.
I wonder why we have such a bad drought down here? Could be lack of rain I think.
World Climate Report Global View of WildfiresWell at least you're not suffering from drought, down this end of the planet we're in diabolical strife. Bloody drought.
World Climate Report Global View of Wildfires
A recent article in Global Change Biology caught our eye with its title Global spatial patterns and temporal trends of burned area between 1981 and 2000 using NOAA-NASA Pathfinder. Given that we had not seen any press coverage for this piece, we suspected it would be a perfect fit for World Climate Report. Sure enough, a few sentences into the abstract we found The total annual burned area has not increased in the last 20 years and we suddenly knew full well why we have not heard of this research. Announcing that burn area has not increased is not going to sit well with the fraternity members!
I wonder why we have such a bad drought down here? Could be lack of rain I think.
The Rush Limbaugh Show - June 9th, 2008
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: "There was a story over the weekend about drought in California. It turns out the reason for the drought is a federal judge who made a decision in January to stop the flow of water from the Sacramento Delta to the southern part of the state because a fish had gotten somehow entangled in the pumps. And so for half the year, maybe seven months, the people of California had to deal with less water so that a fish would not be harmed by pumps! I know that I joke about the circumstance here in Florida -- all along the East Coast -- with the turtle lights and so forth, but it's all the same."
You keep quoting your Exxon butt boys.
Here's some info on the "World Climate Report" editor.
California will have to ban building homes in these areas and start paying the full cost of fighting these fires.Worst California fireseason in recorded history, and we have a long way to go yet...
The Associated Press: Crews stamp out flames in Paradise, Calif. blaze
New York Times - June 7th 2008
"Even more significant, a judge in federal district court last year issued a curtailment in pumping from the California Delta — where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers meet and provide water to roughly 25 million Californians — to protect a species of endangered smelt that were becoming trapped in the pumps. Those reductions, from December to June, cut back the state’s water reserves this winter by about one third, according to a consortium of state water boards."
Even your Liberal Newspapers acknowledges what Rush said as true...
I wonder why Rush is usually right. Probably because he does the research...
Applaud that....
