Links tagged “wildfire”

Bastardi's fact check: 

1) wildfires less than 20% of earlier 20th century in acreage burned.

2) Hurricane ace index/storm near record lows this year, Globally no increase. EPAC/WPAC well below average So is total Global production this season.

3) Much worse storms than what we see now have always run rampant. The list is legion and too numerous to name.

4) Heatwaves are nothing compared to the 1930s , and if you didn’t have rolling blackouts due to energy policy, there would be less problems, Why the rest of the nation would want to adopt the example of California is beyond any rational person. Besides cold kills more than warm, another fact ignored.

Michael Shellenberger was Time magazine's ‘Hero of the Environment’ in 2008

He’s now become a heretic the Green movement would happily burn at the stake

His thesis is that rabid Green alarmism is creating a raft of dangerous myths

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The vehemence may be understandable given his belief that this ‘apocalyptic’ view of climate change is an ‘evangelical, fundamentalist religion’ that doesn’t respond to rational arguments. It satisfies a basic need for something to believe in, he says, and its followers can convince themselves they are serving a higher purpose [saving the planet]. ‘These people are in the grip of a religion,’ says Shellenberger, ‘and they don’t know it.’