Links tagged “wildfire”

Also see: Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: A Nuance Chuck Todd is Ill-Prepared to Discuss - Journalists are notoriously under-informed on science issues. For example, let’s look at the claim that recent warming has been human-caused. It is easy to show that such attribution is more faith-based than science-based.

Marc Morano has his office in the center of power in Washington. Photo: Alex Wroblewski

Paper: "Under President Trump, Morano has more fun than for a long time...If Morano used to be a mocker at the political margins, he is today an echo of his own president. It has made life much more fun.'

Morano: 'What worries me is people who think that you can alter and control the climate with modern witchcraft -- through regulations and carbon taxes.

Interior Secretary Zinke calls for better forest management

"The 2018 wildfire season in California is estimated to have released emissions equivalent to roughly 68 million tons of carbon dioxide. This number equates to about 15 percent of all California emissions, and it is on par with the annual emissions produced by generating enough electricity to power the entire state for a year."

Meteorologist Cliff Mass: It is more than unfortunate that some politicians, environmental advocacy groups, and activist scientists are attempting to use this tragedy as a tool for their own agenda, make the claim that the Camp Fire was result of global warming...it has little impact the Camp Fire and many of the coastal California fires of the past few years (e.g., the Wine Country Fires of October 2017).  And blaming global warming takes attention away from the actions needed to prevent such tragedies from happening again. 

Now let me prove to you that global warming had nothing to do with the dry conditions near Paradise on the morning of November 8.  Below is a plot of the ten-hour fuel moisture at the nearby Jarbo Gap observation side, a site that was in the path of the fire, for the five years ending November 20.  You will note a repeatable pattern, with values reaching around 27% during the winter, but 3-8% every summer and early fall.  The fuels are not getting progressively drier.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that Brown is proposing one of the most significant change to the state's logging rules in nearly half a century. "Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing broad new changes to California’s logging rules that would allow landowners to cut larger trees and build temporary roads without obtaining a permit as a way to thin more forests across the state," the paper reports.