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How many controlled burns does CA do per year to handle underbrush?
Legitimate question.
CalFire is doing prescribed burns all the time. They even have a program where they will help private landholders manage their vegetation. BLM and the forestry service do the same thing I believe.
CalFire is doing prescribed burns all the time. They even have a program where they will help private landholders manage their vegetation. BLM and the forestry service do the same thing I believe.
The quick Google search brought up a few articles saying they aren't doing enough controlled burns which exacerbates the wild fires. They aren't doing them because the air quality permit is too hard to get. Now get this, a study found that wild fires pollute 3 times as much as a controlled burn. Backwards CA for ya.
I lived in the Everglades, I can vouch that this did happen.
By the way, we had a pink/red sun setting last night, thanks to the haze in the air caused by forest fires...the 3 closest of which are over 100 miles away.
Sure am glad CA knows what it's doing. /sarc
Yes we in Victoria BC. are enjoying the colorful sunsets too, but don't you think the display is rather expensive?
Does anyone realize that climate change doesn't start fires? Dead trees and brush doesn't spontaneously combust. Fires are started by people. It doesn't matter how many dead trees there are, they don't start burning by themselves.
Naturally, lightening is the only thing that can start a fire, nothing else and the vast majority of these fires that occur every year in CA are caused only by people and rarely lightening.
The natural CA landscape has evolved to burn every hundred years or more when lightening strikes, not when people put a match to it. Nature doesn't need control burns, it just need people to stop starting fires.
No the thread is about the people actually fighting the fires and knowledgeable about California's water availability saying that Trump doesn't know what the hell he is talking about.
And this is all to common theme concerning Trump. But at least the firefighters didn't call him an "idiot" or a "moron" like several of Trumps cabinet have done.
Firefighters are NOT climate change experts. Heroes, yes - climate control experts, no.
The only common theme is that the deranged left blames Trump for everything, all of the time. Even if wildfires are the result of climate change - and there's compelling scientific evidence indicating that they aren't - climate change predated Trump. I suspect you'd blame getting a flat tire on your way to work on Trump. TDS at its finest.
Hahaha, firefighters are now experts on climate change. They've amazingly cracked the code on something that a bunch of PhD scientists can't even come to an agreement on.
Side note: thanks for the laugh OP.
Well, globally 2017 was the hottest year on record. And the vast majority of PhD scientists have came to a consensus on global warming.
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