In 1936, Forest Fires Were Seen As The Greatest Threat To California

10 Responses to In 1936, Forest Fires Were Seen As The Greatest Threat To California

1. gator69 says:

   November 20, 2015 at 2:27 pm

   Recent studies prove those fires never happened. Using chicken bones from Bali and eye of newt from the Alps, grantologists modeled fires in the Americas with 67 different GCM’s to finally disprove all forest fires before 1979.

   http://blog.world-mysteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3witches.jpg

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2. Martin Smith says:

   November 20, 2015 at 2:33 pm

   It sure is interesting to see how much we have learned in my lifetime.

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   • stevengoddard says:

     November 20, 2015 at 2:42 pm

     What Martin means is “It sure is interesting to see how much we have forgotten in my lifetime”

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     • Martin Smith says:

       November 20, 2015 at 3:13 pm

       I still don’t see your point, Steven. You write about seeing forest fires as a serious danger in 1936 as if you mean that was wrong, or that seeing forest fires as a problem now is wrong because we saw them as a problem in 1936. You appear to be forgetting that in 1936, we didn’t have the forest fire fighting capabilities we have now. We didn’t have helicopters. We didn’t have tankers that dropped tons of water and chemicals on fires at a time. We didn’t have the chainsaws and bulldozers we have now, and those shiny silver blankets you climb under when you get caught in a fire. Nor did we have the forest management techniques we have now. We didn’t have the fire prevention techniques we have now.

       Didn’t we also have more forests back then?

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       • gator69 says:

         November 20, 2015 at 7:46 pm

         No, there are more forests now. Read “The Skeptical Environmentalist”, and see if you might learn something.
       • Andy DC says:

         November 21, 2015 at 6:35 pm

         The very huge fires, like the Idaho fire of 1910, fanned by high winds and burning literally 2 million acres overnight, could have never been stopped by helicopters, tankers and chain saws. It would be like a couple of gnats trying to stop a rampaging elephant.
   • AndyG55 says:

     November 20, 2015 at 4:16 pm

     It sure is interesting to see how LITTLE you have learnt in your lifetime.

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     • PeterK says:

       November 20, 2015 at 7:17 pm

       Ditto.

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   • catweazle666 says:

     November 20, 2015 at 8:14 pm

     You are not “WE”, Marty.

     Nor does it seem YOU have learned anything in your short lifetime, except lying, insulting, smearing and patronising.

     Did I mention lying?

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3. David A says:

   November 20, 2015 at 4:44 pm

   He forgot nothing MS. The point is we had more fires, and more severe fires in the past corresponding with greater droughts and lower stream flow.

   There is zero data showing a global increase in droughts. CO2 is irrelevant to drought.

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