California wildfire investigators blame arson, not global warming
California authorities believe the wildfires ravaging southern California may have been caused by arson, not global warming.
In other words, it looks to be what Janet Napolitano calls a “man-made disaster.”
Not that fear-mongerers like Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez will care.
She’s never let past arson-related blazes stand in the way of a good eco-apocalypse claim.
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Shocker.
Whenever a disaster strikes, there seems to be no shortage of people willing to politicalize it and claim victimization by some imaginary conspiracy.
Take this tool for example.
California – the home of the pot farm, meth lab, and illegal immigrant related forest fires.
Those ‘authorities’ must be the first to the re-education camps, stat!
Michelle, did we break your site with Monster Thread? If so, I’m sorry, it seemed harmless enough.
I’m writing a new study that claims that global warming CAUSES arson. I’m going to make a bundle on grant money.
Joy, Zero asked about the numbering problem at the beginning of the “Culture of corruption: Rangel and his Ethics Committee foxes” thread, and Michelle answered that her Tech team was updating WordPress and they’re working on the comment numbering issues.
So it sounds like it was just a software updating glitch and does not appear to have anything to do with monster thread. It’s just a coincidence.
But Monster Thread is gone. Even the part MM wrote. The post, the comments, everything… so I guess I figured it must have been connected. What a strange coincidence. I’m very glad it wasn’t the cause. Thanks for telling me.
Some of these truly huge fires in the west are indeed man caused-arson or not. Overly exuberant fire suppression has allowed all too much dead drop, grasses and undergrowth to accumulate. This has happened on the grasslands, deserts and forests. As the various agencies got better at firefighting firefighting and suppression became a holy writ instead of a management tool. We have always had the likes of Rep. Linda Sanchez. That wack job need to be sentenced to three seasons on a Japanese whaling ship.
And Joy PLEASE not not to break the counter again please?
I bet Roland is a Global warming denier too. ManBearPig would not be pleased.
Near impeccable logic as always, AN. And as you know… we are unable to export logic to our neighbor to the west at anytime.
You can bring in drugs, violence, illegal aliens but don’t ever bring in any evidence that will shatter The Grand Illusion. Look how they turned Ahhrrnold into a girly man.
Global warming is making people set fires now? Please do something Mr. Gore!
Isn’t California’s state motto
“Live Green or Die”?
More like:
Live Green and Cry!
Maybe it’s:
Live Green and Die.
California firefighters sometimes get worried about their pensions…nothing like a good crisis.
Just say’n.
Then, that proves it!California authorities ain’t nuttin’ but global-warming-denying, head-in-the-sand, rightwing, Bush-Hitler lovin’, McCain-supportin’ neocons who need to be sent to re-education camps to correct their thinkin’.
Obviously someone was wandering around some field, looking for remains of some melted iceberg or dead polar bear and dropped his candle.
Then poof, you have this fire.
Proof positive, George W. Bush hates anything that can catch on fire.
The comedian Gallager once said “California is like a bowl of granola. What isn’t fruits and nuts is flakes”
But, but if man didn’t cause global warming there wouldn’t be arsonists.
Are the Mooslems involved in this arson? Just asking is all.
Monster Thread is gone? I had some epic posts there. (sniff)
Let’s not forget all those California Cheese commercials, those that state the cheese is great because California cows are contented.
And now we know the real problem, those cows are contented because they emit methane. %@#&$* cows! Because of you, we have forest fires! We should make you pay higher taxes or enter re-education camps.
The first thing those nutcases out there need to do is ADMIT that their wacko policies of not getting rid of underbrush and dead trees is what is causing these fires to rage out of control. The fires may have been started by idiot arsonists, but they are FUELED by moron eco-terrorist freaks who have held this country hostage for FAR.TOO.LONG. How did these idiots get so intrenched into our society that we have such a hard time getting rid of them? The time is NOW to get our country back. Drill for our own oil, build nuclear plants, more clean (and maybe even some dirty) coal. Wind and solar are fine…up to a point. But we now know they are not the solution!
unfortunately many of these forest fires are started by transigent fire fighters looking for work. a suggestion is to polygraph all firefighters to see which have started fires in the past. i know, racial or someother profiling. but if you pay people to have bastard children, they do that, and if you pay people to fight fires, some might just start them when they need some extra cash.
Southern California has had fires of this scale every few years for the six decades that I remember. They used to blame fire.
Since you started the list, howza ’bout tar and feathering our politicians and many more fun activities for the friends and families?
for intellectually challenged liberals arson and global warming are one and the same.
Same difference,at least in Snachez’s mind. Gobal warming is manmade, just like arson, so they must be the same.
If environmentalists oppose controlled burning and clearing brush and think that man is a parasite causing all the planet’s ills, then maybe eco-arsonists are trying to burn down the houses and clear out the people?
I’m with you on that one!
I guarantee it was set by enviro-nitwits.
Or just some hippies blazing a spliff.
Whichever.
Global warming — hot dry weather — created the conditions that make it possible for a small fire to spread so fast and do so much damage. The actual inevitable spark came from elsewhere.
Same difference, if you use her reasoning. Gobal warming is manmade, just like arson, so they must be the same.
That part of Southern California is a semi-desert area, so hot dry weather is normal. My mother still lives in the house I grew up in, near those cities. She is a died-in-the-wool envirnmentalist, and even she doesn’t believe global warming started or fueled those fires.
I apologize for the misspelling of Sanchez’s name in above post. I accidentally hit the submit button before I spell-checked. I would never spell her name that way on purpose.
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The MAN CAUSED FIRE statement occurs because there were no indications that this was a lightning caused fire.
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Many people don’t realize that there is a nationwide lightning strike locating and reporting system that records the location, time, and intensity of all lightning hits. It operates on time of arrival differences at different antenna locations that receive the radio wave caused by lightning.
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If this system does not report lightning–it gets called a man caused event. A lot of non-arson events can cause fires also. Stove, vehicle, friction, electric sparks can do this. The old 1 gallon glass jugs had a convex bottom that could ignite pine needles under the jug and start a fire.
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John Bibb
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Well, we know where that spark didn’t come from: your limp mushy noodle.
California has horrible wildfires every single year, so why SUDDENLY is so-called man-caused global warming being blamed?
Idiots.