After the PDO shift in 1976, Los Alamos, New Mexico suffered a series of large fires, beginning with the Bandelier Fire of 1977. I originally blamed the change in climate on Jimmy Carter, but that may have been unfair.
The most recent fire was in 2011, which removed the last of the overgrown forest, caused by decades of Smokey the Bear fire suppression. I rode my bike up to the burn area yesterday, and took some pictures of the recovery of the forest. The burn area is rapidly filling in with Aspen, Oak, Currants, Chokecherry, Maple, and other species. There were three Red Tailed Hawks circling right over me and screeching, which was pretty amazing.
During the 1890’s, Northern New Mexico was hit with a similar series of massive fires. The burn areas from those fires now form some of the largest and most spectacular Aspen groves anywhere. The world’s tallest Aspen trees are outside Santa Fe, where I used to work as a wilderness ranger.
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I attended the annual ceremony for Los Alamos Living Treasures yesterday, an organization founded by my mother – who passed away in December. It was a very large event, and besides the parts dedicated to my mom, there were three new inductees, including a scientist (Chick Keller) who has dedicated his life to “global warming.” Chick’s house burned up in the 2011 fire and he believes that natural cycles are man made, because he trusts fake climate data from NOAA and hasn’t looked back far enough in history to see that it has all happened before. Here are some of the ridiculous arguments Chick has told me in the past.
I have already discussed the 1900-1945 rise. After WWII rapid and massive industrialization with no pollution controls lead to global dimming in which sulfate aerosols reflected much sunlight back into space. The resultant cooling reversed as developed nations cleaned up their atmosphere. Global dimming has been observed to reverse starting about 10 years ago which is presumably leading to our seeing the real power of anthropogenic greenhouse gases to warm the earth.
What a load of BS. China is making massive amounts of pollution. And NASA has since erased the post 1945 cooling anyway.
the IPCC doesn’t “assume” anything about CO2 or anything else. It is a body that attempts to reflect the best science out there.
The IPCC was created and exists entirely to produce evidence of CO2 driven climate change. They have no other purpose.
16 National Academies of Science from 16 developed countries as well as the IPCC, the American Geophysical Union, etc. have all endorsed the idea that humans are causing most of the observed warming.
There is no question that humans are producing most or all of the observed warming. Their names are Gavin Schmidt, Tom Karl, and few others who tamper with data, to create fake graphs showing warming.
