Obama science czar John Holdren says US forest fires doubled this decade, when in fact they did the exact opposite. They have declined by more than 50%
This summer has been very wet in most of the west, and there are no large fires burning outside of California, Oregon and Idaho. The number of fires is the lowest in three decades, and has plummeted since 2006. (This number will increase a little over the next two months.)
Except for California and Oregon, this has been a wet summer.
Burn acreage this year has been less than half of the decadal average, and is the lowest in a decade.
Makes sense when you think about it. While the mild (cool) summer has been a boon for city dwellers, there is no need to ‘escape’ the heat by visiting the forest and starting a fire.
I suspect when all is said and done, the Forest Service is going to moan about the drop in visitors.
Actually, with the exception of Southern California,typically, most of the burned acreage in the national forests is the result of lightning caused fires. While almost 90% of fires are human-caused (before it became politically incorrect we used to say “man-caused”),the greater percentage of these human related ignitions are in the eastern US where fires sizes are considerably smaller than in the west.
Yea, if man can get into an area to start one, they can usually fight it before it eats too much. Whereas lightening can strike anywhere.
The problem is, and pretty much always has been, not how many fires there are or how much area is burned, but WHERE the fires are located.
A thousand acres in WV can burn and it barely makes the local news, yet one of the same size in CA is headline news and a sign of the impending climate apocalypse. (Granted CA fires frequently spread well beyond 1000 acres…)
WVa ( as well as other eastern states) have relatively very few 1000 acre fires.
Yes, but how many eastern other eastern states are even capable of having a 1000 acre fire (hint…two, maybe three…and 2 of them are New England states) and not wiping out at least one town?
WV has over 1 million acres of National Forest land AND is nearly 78% forested. So a 1000 acre fire is very possible, in fact last year saw a 1600 acre fire. The worst year for WV fires was 1952 with over 630,000 acres burned…and an ‘average’ year sees about 5000 acres burned, most of them are well under 100 acres in size but every so often there’s a 1000+.
In 1825, New Brunswick and Maine had a 3 million acre fire.
Maine and New Hampshire are the other two eastern states capable of large fires due to the amount of forested land they contain…Virginia is 4th. Georgia may be capable, with all the pine plantations, but that is usually so well managed fire is low on the list of dangers…storm damage affects a lot more acreage.
Actually, getting out of NE, you will find most of the eastern states can easily have fires that size without affecting a town. Now if you are talking 100k acres that is a different story. 1000 acres is not that much – less than 2 sq miles.
Even the alarmists don’t believe Holdren. http://m.nwnewsnetwork.org/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F#mobile/1916
weather, not climate…smh
just keep being willfully ignorant and let your grandkids deal with it.
I am planning to make sure my kids descendants are well prepared for the coming glaciation by breeding my current doe kids to cashmere bucks.
The Holocene interglacial is now 11,717 years old….. That’s two centuries or so beyond half the present precession cycle (or 23,000/2=11,500). Only one interglacial , MIS-11, since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition has lasted longer than about half a precession cycle.
Any hope that the Holocene would go long was shot down by Lisiecki and Raymo in 2005 in their rebuttal of Loutre and Berger, 2003.
A History of Solar Activity over Millennia
Since that paper was written solar cycle 24 has made it rather clear the earth is indeed looking at a Grand Minimum.
To top it off increased volcanic activity has been linked to low solar activity.
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Yes, our grandchildren will be dealing with $17,000,000,000,000 in debt and $100,000,000,000,000 in unfunded liabilities.
For everyone’s benefit me thinks that you need to oil your time machine. By the time your Grandchildren get around to dealing with the debt they will have children of their own and the debt will likely be $17,000,000,000,000,000 (Quadrillion) and the unfunded liabilities that the Rent Seekers have amassed may will be north of $1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (Quintillion)
And a health care system that was broken so they could see what was in it.