Comments on: Rep. Linda Sanchez: Global warming caused California wildfires

By: ScottyDog

ScottyDog — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:22:01 +0000

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.

By: fuseman

fuseman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:52:12 +0000

fire departments recently found cause as being human.

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By: hawkeye54

hawkeye54 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:31:05 +0000

Wildfires, as any semi-idiot should know, are necessary and natural for the types of forest and desert biomes commonly found throughout California.

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.

By: greenfairie

greenfairie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:21:14 +0000

If people could clear the brush and chapparal, there wouldn’t be these massive wildfires.

Santa Ana season kicks up next month :O.

By: Speakup

Speakup — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:57:57 +0000

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.

By: pueblo1032

pueblo1032 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:46:04 +0000

STOP THE PRESSES!!! this could be a breakthrough… MS. SANCHEZ did not blame BUSH for the increase in wildfires… Now that is NEWS…

By: rocketman

rocketman — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:32:13 +0000

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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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By: frontierguy

frontierguy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:46:09 +0000

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.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:26:42 +0000

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.

By: Savage24

Savage24 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:02:46 +0000

The sad thing is that these green wienies are never there to fight these fires.

By: Weary Citizen

Weary Citizen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:41:28 +0000

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.

By: FireBlogger

FireBlogger — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:03:32 +0000

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.

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