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Kinda funny how t went from a bumbling, self-promoting, real estate side show clown, who ripped off anyone who dealt with him and counted on foreign money became the darling of these people. To them he is now the final authority and can do no wrong . . . sad, but hilarious.
 
California Burned

  • And now the rest of the story.
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AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu
JAMES DELINGPOLE 24 Nov 2018


Ever since President Trump tweeted about the real cause of the California wild fires, celebrities, union leaders, activists and leftist politicians have been lining up to tell us how evil and wrong Trump is.

But the more evidence emerges, the more it appears that Trump was dead right to blame “poor” forest management for the California fires.

And who was responsible for that poor management? Why only the guy who has been busily trying to point the finger of blame at Trump: California Governor Jerry Brown.

California’s fire problem is summed up here by CFACT’s Bonner Cohen:

State and federal forests in California are full of dead and diseased trees that should be removed, along with overgrown underbrush. But, to the extent that these forests are being thinned, it is at a snail’s pace. Prescribed burns, fire breaks, and adequate roads allowing firefighters quick access into forests are all a part of proper forest management but are largely absent from California’s government-managed forests. People managing forests on private land must deal with the state’s Byzantine bureaucracy to obtain permits enabling them to carry out fire prevention measures on their land.

As a result, the state’s forests and adjacent grasslands are a tinder box waiting to explode.

Governor Brown had a chance to put a stop to this. Or at least alleviate it. Instead, as CFACT’s Paul Driessen notes here, he personally vetoed a legislative amendment designed to reduce the wild fire risk.

In 2016, Governor Brown vetoed a bipartisan wildfire management bill that had unanimously passed the state Assembly and Senate. For decades, radical environmentalists have demanded – and legislators, regulators and judges have approved – “wildlands preservation” and “fires are natural” policies. Tree thinning has been banned, resulting in thousands of skinny, fire-susceptible trees growing where only a few hundred should be present. Even removing diseased, dead and burned trees has been prohibited.
 
California Burned

  • And now the rest of the story.
California-wildfires.jpg

AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu
JAMES DELINGPOLE 24 Nov 2018


Ever since President Trump tweeted about the real cause of the California wild fires, celebrities, union leaders, activists and leftist politicians have been lining up to tell us how evil and wrong Trump is.

But the more evidence emerges, the more it appears that Trump was dead right to blame “poor” forest management for the California fires.

And who was responsible for that poor management? Why only the guy who has been busily trying to point the finger of blame at Trump: California Governor Jerry Brown.

California’s fire problem is summed up here by CFACT’s Bonner Cohen:

State and federal forests in California are full of dead and diseased trees that should be removed, along with overgrown underbrush. But, to the extent that these forests are being thinned, it is at a snail’s pace. Prescribed burns, fire breaks, and adequate roads allowing firefighters quick access into forests are all a part of proper forest management but are largely absent from California’s government-managed forests. People managing forests on private land must deal with the state’s Byzantine bureaucracy to obtain permits enabling them to carry out fire prevention measures on their land.

As a result, the state’s forests and adjacent grasslands are a tinder box waiting to explode.

Governor Brown had a chance to put a stop to this. Or at least alleviate it. Instead, as CFACT’s Paul Driessen notes here, he personally vetoed a legislative amendment designed to reduce the wild fire risk.

In 2016, Governor Brown vetoed a bipartisan wildfire management bill that had unanimously passed the state Assembly and Senate. For decades, radical environmentalists have demanded – and legislators, regulators and judges have approved – “wildlands preservation” and “fires are natural” policies. Tree thinning has been banned, resulting in thousands of skinny, fire-susceptible trees growing where only a few hundred should be present. Even removing diseased, dead and burned trees has been prohibited.

Sucker.
 
Kinda funny how t went from a bumbling, self-promoting, real estate side show clown, who ripped off anyone who dealt with him and counted on foreign money became the darling of these people. To them he is now the final authority and can do no wrong . . . sad, but hilarious.


Will you kindly post your address so we can mark it with a large BLUE X on the map...
You need to be avoided like the plague for the blatant stupidity you continue to display
Daily !!!!
 
California drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say


Through studies of tree rings, sediment and other natural evidence, researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years — compared to the mere three-year duration of the current dry spell. The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years.

“We continue to run California as if the longest drought we are ever going to encounter is about seven years,” said Scott Stine, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Cal State East Bay. “We’re living in a dream world.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01...ve-lasted-more-than-200-years-scientists-say/
 
California drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say


Through studies of tree rings, sediment and other natural evidence, researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years — compared to the mere three-year duration of the current dry spell. The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years.

“We continue to run California as if the longest drought we are ever going to encounter is about seven years,” said Scott Stine, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Cal State East Bay. “We’re living in a dream world.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01...ve-lasted-more-than-200-years-scientists-say/

Irrelevant.
 
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