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Climate Experts Suggest Trump Was Right When He Blamed California’s Wildfires On...
Quote:Climate experts are apparently backing President Donald Trump’s repeated arguments that California’s wildfires were a result of poor land management rather than climate change, E&E reported Thursday.

Roughly 75% of damage stemming from California’s wildfires was a result of “the way we manage lands and develop our landscape,” Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday at a conference in Washington.

Wildfires used to burn through 4.5 million acres a year in the 18th century, when indigenous communities populated California’s countryside, Stephens noted. “Fire was almost as important as rain to ecosystems,” he added.

Stephens was not the only researcher at the National Council for Science and the Environment to made that point. “Wildfire is not really wildfire — it’s not pointy green trees,” Jennifer Montgomery, director of the California Forest Management Task Force, added.

Montgomery continued: “You get these so-called wildfires at intersection of development.”

Trump makes similar arguments.

“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” the president tweeted in September 2018 when fires were scorching their way across the Golden State.

The cost associated with firefighting is increasing dramatically, hitting a record $1.1 billion in 2017. The president signed “fire funding fix” legislation in 2018 to give federal agencies $2.25 billion to fight fires starting in 2020. That amount would increase to nearly $3 billion by 2027.

Montgomery and Stephens’ comments also come in stark contrast to remarks made by California’s largest power utility.

California’s “prolonged, record drought; unprecedented tree mortality; heat waves;” and offshore “Diablo” winds created “a significant and an unforeseen increase in wildfires,” PG&E CEO Bill Johnson told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in December.

PG&E shut off electricity in November 2019 to nearly 1 million customers to prevent the spread of wildfires. The blackouts were intended to forestall wildfires. One of the utility’s snapped wires was reportedly found on a transmission tower near where the Kincade Fire began.

California wildfires killed 103 people between 2017 and 2019, and burned 4 million acres while causing millions of citizens to lose power as electric companies turned off electricity to prevent potential arching from sparking fires.

State officials frequently argued that California’s wildfires were the result of excessive carbon emissions inside Earth’s atmosphere. Former Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, for instance, said in 2018 that “those who deny” global warming were “definitely contributing” to the deadly fires.

Other experts say Trump and Brown are both wrong.

“The recent fires are predominantly in grassland and chaparral,” University of Washington climate scientist Cliff Mass told the Daily Caller News Foundation in 2018. And Brown is wrong because the prairie grass would have burned despite climate change, he added.

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(01-13-2020 03:50 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  
Quote:Climate experts are apparently backing President Donald Trump’s repeated arguments that California’s wildfires were a result of poor land management rather than climate change, E&E reported Thursday.

Roughly 75% of damage stemming from California’s wildfires was a result of “the way we manage lands and develop our landscape,” Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday at a conference in Washington.

Wildfires used to burn through 4.5 million acres a year in the 18th century, when indigenous communities populated California’s countryside, Stephens noted. “Fire was almost as important as rain to ecosystems,” he added.

Stephens was not the only researcher at the National Council for Science and the Environment to made that point. “Wildfire is not really wildfire — it’s not pointy green trees,” Jennifer Montgomery, director of the California Forest Management Task Force, added.

Montgomery continued: “You get these so-called wildfires at intersection of development.”

Trump makes similar arguments.

“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” the president tweeted in September 2018 when fires were scorching their way across the Golden State.

The cost associated with firefighting is increasing dramatically, hitting a record $1.1 billion in 2017. The president signed “fire funding fix” legislation in 2018 to give federal agencies $2.25 billion to fight fires starting in 2020. That amount would increase to nearly $3 billion by 2027.

Montgomery and Stephens’ comments also come in stark contrast to remarks made by California’s largest power utility.

California’s “prolonged, record drought; unprecedented tree mortality; heat waves;” and offshore “Diablo” winds created “a significant and an unforeseen increase in wildfires,” PG&E CEO Bill Johnson told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in December.

PG&E shut off electricity in November 2019 to nearly 1 million customers to prevent the spread of wildfires. The blackouts were intended to forestall wildfires. One of the utility’s snapped wires was reportedly found on a transmission tower near where the Kincade Fire began.

California wildfires killed 103 people between 2017 and 2019, and burned 4 million acres while causing millions of citizens to lose power as electric companies turned off electricity to prevent potential arching from sparking fires.

State officials frequently argued that California’s wildfires were the result of excessive carbon emissions inside Earth’s atmosphere. Former Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, for instance, said in 2018 that “those who deny” global warming were “definitely contributing” to the deadly fires.

Other experts say Trump and Brown are both wrong.

“The recent fires are predominantly in grassland and chaparral,” University of Washington climate scientist Cliff Mass told the Daily Caller News Foundation in 2018. And Brown is wrong because the prairie grass would have burned despite climate change, he added.

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President Trump is always right when it comes to Democrats and their bull****.

Whoa - I was ready to call out this "expert" as NOT an expert. But this guy is from Left of San Francisco - UC Berkely.... The Dems can't use that card on a fellow Left-ite
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(01-13-2020 03:57 PM)Eldonabe Wrote:  Whoa - I was ready to call out this "expert" as NOT an expert. But this guy is from Left of San Francisco - UC Berkely.... The Dems can't use that card on a fellow Left-ite

napes....they'll turn on a dime and ponder why it's 'trailer trash (wh)OR(e} vs. Kerrigan' once again....

they've mastered that bs.....
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you don't say?
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Oh, snap!
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(01-13-2020 04:33 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  you don't say?

if one isn't laughing, one isn't breathing....

the Neshoba county fair doesn't have any 'noose' or
chariot on the track' relative to this political bs....

ol' boy changed the game....

#hang'EmHigh

disclaimer: somebody will whiff the jew-ism and call me a racist for that one too....
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You can file this one in the "No **** Sherlock" file.
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(01-13-2020 05:49 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  You can file this one in the "No **** Sherlock" file.

Yet he was blasted for making that assertion. Go figure.
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(01-13-2020 05:52 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  
(01-13-2020 05:49 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  You can file this one in the "No **** Sherlock" file.

Yet he was blasted for making that assertion. Go figure.

it's a given, "if Trump"....

that's what makes it too fonzies....
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