Comments on: Are the California wildfires caused by climate change?

By: KTJewitt

KTJewitt — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:37:32 +0000

Or maybe it’s terrorists:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/fox-news-al-qaeda-is-causing-the-ca-wildires

By: Benjamin Napier

Benjamin Napier — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:55:38 +0000

In a word, no. The Tillamook burns, the massive fires in Minnesota and Wisconsin of the 1800’s occurred before the “climate change” started. The wildfires in CA are a result of failure to manage the forest and grasslands and of building in the middle of them.

Nature cleases by fire. Old growth must be removed for the advent of the new. We just are stupid enough to build in the middle of it. Also, we know how to manage forests and grasslands. One of the management techniques is to have small controlled burns and to harvest mature trees and grasses. If we do not use a resourse, we will lose it.

Fires aren’t bad and they aren’t good. They are.

By the way, the Santa Anna winds have been happening as long as humans in the area can remember. There are years that are more severe than others. Always has been, always will be.

By: lindsay

lindsay — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:44:33 +0000

a p garcia, I’m guessing that the first statement is not purely scientific.

Also, in the interest of being accurate, it’s been discovered that the California arsonists were copying the massive fires that had already started (according to the NYTimes). A big factor in spreading the wildfires is that the Santa Ana winds have been stronger, and lasted longer, than usual, and that’s been attributed to changes in climate.

By: a p garcia

a p garcia — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:17:15 +0000

Global Warming has also been named as the culprit that forces Paris Hilton & Friends to go “pantyless” so how does Global Warming make an Arsonist do their thing!

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:29:09 +0000

I have to agree with Tom Boatner. I’ve never seen anything like this in my lifetime. I can’t get over being struck by the fact that - 30 years ago - scientists began saying that fossil fuel emission would cause Earth to get warmer, and that, although we weren’t see the effects back then (in the 1970s), we would probably begin seeing them around the turn of the century.

And now the new century is here, and half a million people are being evacuated due to California wildfires.

I believe these sorts of events - droughts, fires, floods - will become more common as this century progresses, and Earth continues to warm.

Deborah