Rep. Linda Sanchez: Global warming caused California wildfires
Yes, it was inevitable:
Rep. Linda Sanchez, the Democratic congresswoman from California’s 39th Congressional District, appeared on MSNBC’s Sept. 1 “Andrea Mitchell Reports” and did just that. She told the show’s fill-in host Tamron Hall that these wildfires have increased in “magnitude” over the years. And she knew why.
“Yeah, it’s really interesting because I’m a native Californian, born and raised here and periodically we would have fought wildfires when I was younger, but nothing of the magnitude that we’ve seen in the last several years,” Sanchez said. “And, obviously, a big contributing factor to that is that we’re in drought condition. We don’t, we aren’t receiving the amount of rainfall that we should or, quite frankly, that in years past we did.”
What you won’t hear from these enviro-nitwits: The role that the eco-zealots’ own litigious environmental obstructionism has played in creating hazardous wildfire conditions.
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Global Warming Wall of Shame entry for Rep. Linda Sanchez.
Yeah right. The pot growers and other arsons who keep lighting these fires are just exercising their first amendment rights to protest global warming.
The environmentalists demanded an old growth forest and they got it. Of course, with an old growth forest comes old growth forest fires.
As for global warming, well, she is simply a lemming, trying to turn a fire disaster into a reason to push a cap-and-tax government takeover of all industries.
hey sanchez,
probably illegals that started the fire.
Of course, Linda Sanchez, all those illegal immigrants moving from rural Mexico and into California’s 39th Congressional District, increasing their carbon footprints, doesn’t help much either, does it?
Does it?
????? Fires now burn hotter? The only thing that has changed is that whereas there would be one of these fires every 6-7 years, now arsons start numerous fires simultaneously several times each year. It’s not the climate, it’s the criminals.
I’ve heard one report that there is a 60 year accumulation of dead undergrowth (fuel) being burned in some of these fires, or is it this fire now.
The green weinies ‘love’ for their forests and critters has tried to prevent control normal fires all over North America. Fire is normal. When this much fuel is allowed to accumulate the fires virtually ‘Can’t be stopped’. As the population grows people begin to inhabit area that were barely used in the past, closer to nature, closer to natural fire areas.
It is a known fact that the big fire at Lake Tahoe a couple of years ago got out of control because the local eco-nut-cases would not let the homeowners clear the underbrush and such from their properties and it was actually a very large fine to do so … so guess what caught fire and allowed the flames to spread more quickly … you guessed it … the underbrush …
The failure to clear all of those dead limbs and other dried up fuel on the forest floor increases the severity of these fires … which are a natural means of thinning the forests and causing their renewal as they grow back … been so throughout history …
Too bad all that kool-aid they have been drinking for so long doesn’t give them a massive case of indigestion …
The woman’s a cretin.
It’s quite possible it’s man made, just let the brush grow around your house for decades and see how it all works out for you.
I heard from a firefighters friend that rabbits are a big problem in these fires. They catch on fire and run into surrounding brush. The firefighters have try to kill them before they can do that.
It’s not global warming, it’s the flaming bunnies.
Stamp Out Flaming Bunnies !!!!
Sorry, but that sounds like a Monty Python routine.
The enviro-nitwits need to check the definition of old growth forest, if what others posting here have said is true, that the growth is between 40 to 60 years old. See the following definition of old growth forest:
Some definitions say that any forest area that has been undisturbed by man for 100 years qualifies as old growth, but even by that definition the growth in California that environmentalists have sued over hasn’t always qualified.
There have also been suits to stop homeowners from clearing the brush that surrounds their properties, brush that provides the tinder for these fires to spread. Can the enviros claim that the brush is also protected as old growth? /sarc.
I so did not need that image in my head.
I see you beat me to the point about brush (must read all the comments before posting….)
at the very least she’s a cretin…I have much stronger words but don’t want to get banned so I won’t….lol
blame the illegals and drug cartels or just some fire bug getting his jollies off…
For the libs, logging is a dirty word even though we have to import our timber from Canada now as a result of their eco-nuts…
All of the residents that lose their homes in these fires should join together in a class action lawsuit against all the enviro-nut organizations that have prevented proper forest management practices for all these years from lessening the chances of these fires getting “out of control” …
I figure a billion dollars or so for all the damages should work for starters …
I thought so.
I could feel it from 33,000 feet on my last flight.
heh.
Forest fires isn’t all global warming is responbible for! Check it out.
Scroll over each item and there’s a link to the source. Rush highlighted this a year or two ago.
Forest fires are a natural occurrence. Man should not intervene to stop mother nature from doing what’s natural in the life cycle to thin the forest and cause new growth. So this nitwit should read her environmentalist wacko notes. If it is man caused isn’t man a part of the natural environment?
It wasn’t Bush and Cheney?
Don’t forget they shut off the water to save a non-native fish.
Wayfaring Stranger said:
LOL, that made my day.
Linda is teh stupid.
That’s absolutely in line with Forest Service dogma from a few years ago – they let the fires burn thousands of acres before it occurred to them that they weren’t dying of natural causes…..
I’m surprised it took somebody on the left this long to blame global warming. The Obama-Kennedy Universal Health Care Insurance Reform debacle must have them disoriented. At least more so than usual.
+1!!! :
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Sodom got destroyed by fire. Maybe, CA is getting hit hard by fire because of all the Homos sucking each other off in the streets, and peeing on each other during Folson street fair.
Damn those Romans, Saxons, and Normans and their SUVs!
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force! Wildfires are Nature’s way of saying, “Stop screwing with the natural order of things. Redwood and Sequoia seeds won’t germinate unless they’re burned over.” Clean and load your guns, boys and girls. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ECS
On September 1st, 2009 at 6:45 pm, DesertLover said:
Maybe Jimmy Carter could lend us his Secret Service detail to do the job, they have experience with menacing rabbits.
The “dryland farmers” who moved west to plow up the buffalo grass made the same claim after the unusually wet weather that they had enjoyed the first years they planted reverted to the normal weather patterns.
Hey, Congresscritter Sanchez! There is a reason most of the Inland Empire was high desert!
ECS
After these fires pass maybe “The enviro-nitwits”that clog up the courts will take a hike thru the burned areas and collect the skeletons for burial of the animals lost due to their intelligence.
Can you recycle ash?
The more these environuts fight clear-cutting, the worse these fires become.
A few more seasons of these and we won’t have any forests left.
Hiking in the Angeles National
Forestmoonscape is going to be a new experience to say the least.Allow the Forest Service to conduct “controlled burns,” and these fires wouldn’t be “wildfires.” California could keep their old growth forests without all the underbrush.
Stupid, ignorant, non-forestry management types shouldn’t be involved in forestry managment. Emotional “Fires are bad!” people shouldn’t move into overgrown canyons that work like blast furnaces.
ECS
ECS
Thanks Michelle. I needed to set my watch. Right on time. Just like the rising and setting of the sun.
Is it true the environmental terrorists have even succeeded in forbidding homeowners to clear brush on their own land? If so, that is criminal. If I lived out there, I wouldn’t have a forest anywhere near my home. They are beautiful, but in California, they are deadly.
Forset fires are a good thing. If it wasn’t for the enviro-nuts that stop modern forest managment from remving the excess under growth wild fires would not get out of control.
That gives me an idea. Make the enviromentally deranged people live in the overgrown areas and see how they like getting burned out every couple years.
3,2, 1….there isn’t enough National Guard and equipment to help fight the fires because they are all in Afghanistan fighting Barak Obama’s war.
*Just like you can’t toss a burrito in southern Ca without hitting an illegal alien, you just can’t have a wildfire without some dimwit Democrat blaming it on the hoax that is man-made global warming.
This is totally reminiscent of the time Bill Clinton tried to tell us that the Blizzard of ’96 was caused by global warming.
Is there no end to these nitwits’ foolishness?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
It was.
Don’t forget Bush and Cheney caused global warming in the first place.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
um, ok but the current Calif. drought is a fact.
If she had used the words “climate” and “change” I could see pillorying her, but frankly she’s just stating facts.
Droughts make wild fires worse.
It’s funny how the left decries fear mongering except when they’re the ones doing it:
–Global Warming will burn down your house unless you pass Cap and Tax legislation.
–Little Johnny aint gonna get no good education unless you send more tax dollars our way.
–Little Pat will be denied a life-saving sex-change operation unless you pass Obama’s health care bill.
Dick Cheney type “fear mongering” to warn people about the real threat of terrorism is bad. But Linda Sanchez type fear mongering aimed at increasing taxes to fight an imaginary threat is not only welcomed by the left, it’s an end that justifies any means.
If you follow the first link and read the whole article, you will see where she did use the words “climate” and “change”. Here is the relevant passage:
The liberal mind:
Fire baaadddd. Friend goooddd.
That’s last year eco science. This year we have re-learned that global warming is causing global cooling.
This Sanchez woman sounds like a counter-revolutionary, perhaps one of the 5 black types.
It may be time for her to write down her sins and send them to our beloved leader.
Reading the cut out portion of MM, I was thinking Sanchez might be misconstrued by MM or the article, that maybe the article failed to differentiate weather from climate.
The fires, I believe are taking place in a semiARID area, which typically becomes DRIER during the late summer months, and has a historically frequent fire ecology given the native chaparral. So, in all fairness to Sanchez, we may all conclude she (Sanchez) is just a plain dunce.
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My family has a cabin on the beautiful Nevada side of South Lake Tahoe. For 30 years we always removed dead tree limbs, cut and removed dead bushes, got rid of ground cover near the cabin–on our property–to prevent fires from getting near the pine cabin.
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Then the environmental “greenies” took over when Nevada and California signed a legally restrictive agreement (Tahoe Regional Protective Agency) to “save the lake”. People were then fined thousands of dollars if they cut the dead limbs and removed the living fuel near their homes.
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And very restrictive building requirements were put in. Our cabin is 25 ft. by 25 ft.–625 square ft. total area. The house next door–on the same size lot–is over 3000 square ft. We can only rebuild a modern house if it is 625 square ft. or less! The neighbor gets 3000 square ft. on his lot if he rebuilds.
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Our cabin shares a common driveway with 2 other cabins. The neighbor on the other side wants to rebuild after a fire–her cabin was 400 square ft. She has to “give back” the driveway area so she can build a more useable house to replace the cabin that burned down.
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The other two cabins–ours and the other neighbor–will have to spend tens of thousands of dollars for environmental studies, runoff containments, permits, etc. to put in two tracks for a driveway to each house. And will have to give back small patios and porches to get the TRPA permits.
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Forty years ago a Bobcat would grade the driveways, put in cement or rock, and it would have cost $500 dollars to do so. And anyone could build the house they wanted as long as it met local building codes and the homeowners compact rules.
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Let’s hear it for “greenie” control of all areas. The fires are just one of the “unintended consequences” of the liberal agendas. But TRPA is just “helping us out”.
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John Bibb
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Don’t forget the Indians (uh, they’re not native to America either). One mystery that bothered early colonists was the occasional “blue” sunsets they saw. It wasn’t until they went west that they found out it was forest fires. That was during a period of global cooling. It’s okay to be ignorant on some things; we’re all that way. It’s when you speak, with supposed expertise on the subject, that crosses the line from ignorance to stupidity, Ms. Sanchez.
Sierra club does HUGE damage by getting involved
Because of these exact type of things they do and one gov’t employee who started the fire, my heirloom and antique filled 2200sq ft house w/piano & organ plus my 600 sq ft cabin and another structure(900 sq ft) BURNED to the ground in the Hayman fire a few years ago.
They are responsible for destroying 138,000 acres in this fire alone and many additional homes. We tried to prevent this but Oh No, the gov’t and eco-terrorist special interest groups (environmental “greenies”)got involved.
I am still immensely depressed each and every day from family items lost in that fire.
The greenies should use a tried and true method of protection by acting as human shields for the trees. Save the trees! You can do it!
No sap for oil!
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HI SHOOTER #54. Sorry about the loss of your house–as I remember the fire started when the clowns decided to burn out the underbrush with a (not!)”controlled burn” that got out of hand–on a high wind day yet.
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That was a really scary fire on T.V.–I saw a lot of them when I lived in Northern Nevada.
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John Bibb
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Sanchez is a dolt. The fact of the matter is that the region that now goes by the political name “California” has had massive, cleansing wildfires literally for millennia.
Wildfires, as any semi-idiot should know, are necessary and natural for the types of forest and desert biomes commonly found throughout California.
Would it really kill Sanchez to sit down for 4 or 5 minutes and read a brief page or two from a popular science magazine or a 6th grade science book before she opens her big fat stupid mouth?
Just got back from Yellowstone, they let the fires there burn but do protect the buildings. There is alot of regrowth going on there.
That’s crazy talk. Since my career with Cal Fire ended I follow the larger wildfires in California on my blog.
The fires of the past three years are drought driven, simply.
Fuels dry when there is drought obviously. Most people that believe in global warming understand if it is true we are 100 to 200 years away from serious risk to the planet.
For the government to suggest present day droughts are caused by global warming is irresponsible, fear mongering politics.
Shame on the Administration.
Unless of course they are just plain ignorant.
Explain to me again how mass immigration (legal and illegal) from 3rd world countries, of which she is a proponent, in any way helps solve the “man made global warming” issue she is so worried about? Only the thinking of a liberal can champion 2 policies which are in direct conflict with one another.
The sad thing is that these green wienies are never there to fight these fires.
In CA we have to get permission to cut down trees or cut back brush; it often takes months. The last Big Bear fire was caused by the city not allowing a bulldozer into the forest to completely kill the previous fire–the dozer would destroy the forest!
So it’s the eco wackos who have contributed to this.
The proof of this being a moron statement is right next door. Mexico does not have the out of control wildfires every year like California does. Gee, wonder why global warming is not affecting Mexico? Is it that Mexico cleans out its overgrown brush and does controlled burns? No, can’t be that.
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HI FIREBLOGGER #60–good comments on the so called “global warming” C**P.
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National Geographic had a good article on the rainfall for the Western U.S. over the last 600 years–based on tree ring data. The 1800–1900 time was an unusually wet time. The previous wet times were in the 1300–1400 time period. Most other times were much drier than now.
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This is not related to the natural global warming / global cooling that is caused by earth to sun and earth axis tilt changes. Ice core data temperature information over the last 500,000 years correlates well with the ice ages and warming ages–which have about 50,000 year periods.
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John Bibb
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STOP THE PRESSES!!! this could be a breakthrough… MS. SANCHEZ did not blame BUSH for the increase in wildfires… Now that is NEWS…
Most of the second half of the 19th century and into the early 1900s in California were plagued by severe drought.
Were they the result of man made global warming too?
If so blame native Americans since obviously cleaning up America and Europe hasn’t changed anything.
If people could clear the brush and chapparal, there wouldn’t be these massive wildfires.
Santa Ana season kicks up next month :O.
California has three and a half times the population it did when my family moved here in the late 50′s.
We had wildfires back then, but thanks to brush management, most were not catastophic. Also, because fewer people lived in fire prone areas then as they do now. You get more people here and developers push the envelope with regards to building in fire prone areas.
Given the environitwits pressure on blocking effective bush control, people living where they should not, and a semi-arid environment given to burning every now and then, and we will continue to see this cycle played out over and over again.
And we still have all of September and into October for more possible fires stoked by the inevitable heat of the Santa Ana conditions most likely to come within the next six weeks.
That is, unless Global Climate Change brings Southern California unusually mild and cooler weather conditions.
fire departments recently found cause as being human.
One of the reasons we have such big huge brush fires in California is because of Cal Fire and its use of helicopters and failure to bring in the water tankers like the DC-10 until the fire is well out of control.
The same thing happened with the San Diego fires. The Russians offered to let California use their Ilyushin-76TD water tanker, the biggest in the world by the way, Cal Fire Refused its use and let the DC-10 sit on the runway for weeks.
Me thinks they care about getting the maximum overtime for the state workers than fighting fires.