There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!
Is there any subject that Donald Trump can't display gross ignorance about?
Tax fraud?
Trump has successfully prevented a clear discussion of how climate change has caused this California fire season. Never mind the impossible drought and severe, unseasonal winds that drove the fire spread.
And yes, if Trump said the Sky was blue, I would be pretty confident that the sky was red or green or anything else besides blue, sight unseen.
Except that draining aquifers, mismanaging the water drained from them (HEY LETS GO THROW WATER AT THE DESERT GUIZ), fucking exploding fire trees, people refusing to let any burns happen until they explode, and the worst sin of all: living in California which clearly hates humans. Climate change or not, California is going to burn, acting like this is surprising or due to something besides stupid policies involving everything about living in California is ridiculous.
If you think California's not worth living in, I guess we're going to have to evacuate the midwest (the only place on the planet which reliably has tornadoes), and the south (those hurricanes are only getting worse) and the east coast (due to proximity to New Jersey).
Texas is worth living in despite the south end of tornado alley being there--though lets ignore that we just had
one of the least interesting tornado seasons yet--and the rest, yeah, but most of the country doesn't get earthquakes, landslides, mudslides, L.A. people, and top it off with a big wildfire cherry. Hurricanes are getting more costly because of more people being encouraged to rebuild in previously flooded areas,
strengthwise is another matter, which makes sense, in a planet which is warming you would expect a reduced equator to pole temperature gradient, and since that gradient is what powers the most destructive storms it's weird to argue they'll get stronger somehow.
And yeah, I know California's prone to fires. Despite that, this is the deadliest and most severe fire season in decades. If it was due to policies, we'd see this stuff happening every year, or else reliably every few years, not clustered in the past 5-10. This firestorm is due to terrible conditions and lack of rain, both of which can be attributed to climate change.
Uh,
deadliest? most destructive? Your link doesn't seem to support this idea that it was a new thing, or the worst ever even, though I don't doubt it is being reported that way.
Of course, policy can mitigate the loss due to fire. We can mandate stone houses and defensible spaces. We can insist on firebreaks around every town. But don't act like there's someone out there who said "I'm a Republican, and if we have a Democrat in office, that will lead to the state burning to the ground for any reason other divine judgement."
I'm not sure what this means, I'm virulently and violently anti-republican, but it is hard for me to parse this properly besides the first bit about policy. It's been a problem for decades that we catch and stop any minor burn before it spreads, this causes dead plant matter to build up until you get a fire too big to catch and stop which roars through the whole area.
I'd be frankly terrified of living near the field we have next door if Memphis wasn't soggy year round, stuff never dries out enough to slog over and remove it even mid-summer.
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