California is burning because of failed, ill-
conceived left-wing “global warming” policies
Wildfires are swallowing up the West Coast, with the
states of California and Oregon facing thousands upon
thousands of acres of blazing forests. So far, 13
fires have taken over 185,000 acres of land in
Oregon, while California has been fighting 19
wildfires and numerous “fire whirls,” or tornadoes
made of fire. Over 577,000 acres of land in the
Golden State have gone up in smoke.
Governor Jerry Brown has been quick to blame climate
change for the fires, stating, “With climate change,
some scientists are saying that Southern California
is literally burning up.”
Brown went on to claim that “more serious predictions
of warming and fires to occur later in the century,
2040 or 2050, [are] now occurring in real time.”
President Donald Trump weighed in on the issue via
Twitter, stating, “California wildfires are being
magnified & made so much worse by the bad
environmental laws,” such as laws that prevent
thinning out forests, logging and so on.
“Tree clear to stop fire spreading!” the President
added. Left-wing media outlets like The New York
Times have been quick to criticize Trump, declaring
his opinions as “nonsense.” Ironically enough, the
same Times published an article about how tree
harvesting can help stop forest fires in 2012.
Indeed, many experts have stated that forest
management is integral to managing and keeping
wildfires at bay.
Clearing trees stops wildfires
While the left-wing desperately clings to the climate
change narrative, the fact remains that bad
environmental laws, as Trump stated, are indeed
making the issue of wildfires worse. Bob Zybach, a
doctor of environmental science and a forester, has
been speaking out about the danger of new wave
environmental polices for years.
According to Zybach, an uptick in forest fires was
first noted in the 1970s, at around the same time
legislators began favoring a “hands off” approach to
forest management instead of more active management.
In an interview, he explained, “Mostly fuels were
removed through logging, active management — which
they [the Feds] stopped– and grazing.”
“You take away logging, grazing, and maintenance, and
you get firebombs,” Zybach stated.
Recently, experts have studied the issue and
concluded California forests are overburdened by
trees.
Richard Yuretich, director of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) Southern Sierra Critical Zone
Observatory (CZO), says “[F]ire is part of healthy
forest ecosystems. By thinning out trees, fires can
reduce water stress in forests and ease water
shortages during droughts. And by reducing the water
used by plants, more rainfall flows into rivers and
accumulates in groundwater,” he explained.
Writing for Front Page Mag, Bruce Thornton reports
that tree density in forests has increased
exponentially, from 50 to 80 trees per acre to 300 to
400. With 129 million dead or diseased trees as fuel,
it’s easy to see why wildfires on the Left Coast are
more intense and more destructive than years past.
Climate crock
Governor Brown’s adherence to the climate change
narrative as the only cause of California’s wildfire
woes is especially problematic when you consider how
little the state is doing to prevent fires from
happening. California’s massive spending on electric
vehicle subsidies ($335 million) lies in stark
contrast to their underwhelming spending on reducing
fuel for fires in the state’s 33 million acres of
forest ($30 million).
“Once again, global warming ‘science’ is a camouflage
for political ideology and gratifying myths about
nature and human interactions with it. On the one
hand, progressives seek ‘crises’ that justify more
government regulation and intrusion that limit
citizen autonomy and increase government power. On
the other, well-nourished moderns protected by
technology from nature’s cruel indifference to all
life can afford to indulge myths that give them
psychic gratification at little cost to their daily
lives,” Thornton contends.
Mike Adams, founder of Natural News and REAL.video,
has spoken out about the fraudulent nature of climate
science and so-called climate change repeatedly. As
Adams reported last year, it is now known (but not
widely recognized) that much of the data to support
climate change as a theory was faked.
In 2017, a study of climate data found that
temperature readings were adjusted by “scientists” in
ways that were “completely inconsistent” with
published and credible temperature recordings.
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