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Wildfires sweeping across California are threatening the US state’s famed Sequoia trees, with firefighters scrambling to protect the national treasures.

The so-called Rough Fire, the largest of more than a dozen burning across northern and central California, has edged closer to the giant trees in recent days with firefighters scrambling to protect them.

“The fire has moved into a number of Sequoia groves in King’s Canyon National Park and Sequoia National Forest and we are taking preventive measures to make sure nothing happens to them,” park spokesman Mike Theune told AFP.

Of particular concern is the General Grant tree, the second largest Sequoia in the world. It stands 268 feet (81.7 meters) tall.

Theune said firefighters are monitoring the tree round-the-clock, spraying water and clearing the area around Grant grove.

Wildfires threaten California’s treasured Sequoias – Yahoo News

Fire is an essential part of the Giant Sequoia life cycle.

Fire in this forest (1) prepares a seedbed; (2) cycles nutrients; (3) sets back succession in certain relatively small areas; (4) provides conditions which favor wildlife; (5) provides a mosaic of age classes and vegetation types; (6) reduces numbers of trees susceptible to attack by insects and disease; and (7) reduces fire hazards.

The 1890 photograph below shows what Giant Sequoia forest is supposed to look like. Large trees, some with bases hollowed out by hundreds of fires.

Humans decided to fix this natural balance, and quit allowing fires to occur.  As a result, there is a huge amount of underbrush growing in the forest now, which makes fires burn much hotter and makes them much more dangerous to the large trees. The photo below was taken in 1970

Fire’s Role in a Sequoia Forest – Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks (U.S. National Park Service)

Government created the hazard to the trees, and now they blame their stupidity on your SUV creating imaginary global warming.

The Arctic summer minimum sea ice extent was reached very early this year, due to cold weather which set in early in August over the Beaufort Sea.

The extent of Arctic sea ice is up 26% from three years ago. Green shows growth since September 16, 2012, red shows loss.

Government funded experts, leading journalists, and Nobel Prize winners all say the Arctic is ice-free.

The End of the Arctic? Ocean Could be Ice Free by 2015 – The Daily Beast

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013?

Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

The Argus-Press – Jun 24, 2008

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

In 1988, Hansen and Emanuel predicted 225 MPH hurricanes, due to “global warming”

 FEROCIOUS STORMS AND DROUGHT SEEN – NYTimes.com

In fact, peak wind speeds have declined since Camille in 1969 and Allen in 1980, and the Atlantic is now experiencing a record hurricane drought.

Failure doesn’t stop these fraudsters. They simply ramped up their BS to 500 MPH.

New study reveals the possibility of hurricanes ‘unlike anything you’ve seen in history’ – The Washington Post

Government is financing this big lie.  You can be a lukewarmer and be polite, or you can use your brain, get angry, and throw all the Democrat alarmists and Republican panderers out of government.

In 1988, NASA’s James Hansen made these remarks about drought which were completely false, and utterly incompetent.

 FEROCIOUS STORMS AND DROUGHT SEEN – NYTimes.com

During the 1950’s the odds of summer drought were 50%, not the 5% Hansen claimed. And the frequency of summer drought in the US has declined over the last 120 years, not increased.

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Hansen is an incompetent buffoon, who can’t do math, has zero integrity, and makes ridiculous forecasts – which all fail. So he compensates by tampering with data and further defrauding the public.

Prior to 1960, wildfires in the US burned far more acres than they do now.

Wildfires Were Much Worse In The Past | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Heatwaves were much longer, more widespread, more frequent and more intense prior to 1960.

NASA and NOAA have massively tampered with the temperature data prior to 1960, so this part of American history is largely lost. And government agencies don’t talk about pre-1960 forest fires, because it doesn’t suit their agenda. All part of the biggest science fraud in history.

The Maryland train story has taken a tragic turn. I talked to some people at the scene of the crash, and they said the boy was taking pictures and stepped the wrong way into the train.

Later I found out the boy was the grandson of a good friend of mine. She was just telling me yesterday about how he had overcome his dyslexia, and how proud she was of him. She talked about him all the time and beamed with pride. But apparently he wasn’t completely over his dyslexia, because he stepped the wrong way.

I will do what I can to help, but her loss is unimaginable. John John, rest in peace.

So far, the Maryland half of my public transportation experiment has been a complete disaster.

1. They wouldn’t sell me a weekly pass on the train, so I had to waste $5 on a daily pass I didn’t need.
2. They didn’t sell a weekday only pass at the Gaithersburg train station, so I had to pay en extra $15 to get a seven day pass.
3. The Metro Red Line in DC was running very slow today because of track maintenance. This caused me to miss my bus and most of my meeting, and had to take a taxi. $17 lost
4. Some kid stepped out in front of a Marc train this afternoon, and the trains home were halted for three hours. Had to take another taxi – $20

I lost $57 today and countless hours. I could have rented a car on Relay Rides for $20 and not wasted any time. Unless there was an accident on the freeway.

So far,  Maryland public transportation gets the big thumbs down.

Check out the latest fraud from “climate scientists” in a “peer reviewed journal”

California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack is the lowest in 500 years

California droughts are caused by periods of dominantly cold water in the Pacific. This year the water is very warm, and they will likely get huge snowfalls. They cherry-picked the last El Nino year (2010) for their comparison

The authors also chose a time period of 500 years, because they didn’t want to discuss the much worse droughts more than 500 years ago.

Satellites show the world cooling this century, so the US Space Agency ignores satellite data and relies on fake surface temperatures to create the appearance of warming.

Their reported temperatures diverge from reality at 1.3C per century.

Global-warming deniers cherry-pick their facts

The cherry-picking season in the Okanagan is over, but it’s alive and well on the letters page of this newspaper, with a classic example via the tired meme: “The planet has warmed very little since 1998.”

Hmmm … why would the letter-writer pick 1998, one wonders? Well, it’s one of the warmest years in recent decades, thanks to a major El Niño, so if you pick that as a starting point — as global-warming deniers are wont to do –– ongoing warming looks less imposing.

It’s spin, pure and simple. The fact is that Planet Earth is heating up. Every decade since the 1970s has been warmer than its predecessor, driven inexorably upward by human-produced greenhouse-gas emissions. And this year is on track to be the warmest of at least the past 1,000 years.

Thomas F. Pedersen

Executive director

Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions

University of Victoria

Global-warming deniers cherry-pick their facts

Pederson doesn’t want to include the actual hottest El Nino year of 1998, but does want to include the completely fake “hottest” El Nino year of 2015. He wants to start the trend in the coldest decade of the 1970’s, and then accuses others of cherry-picking.

He is a typical global warming fraudster. Every single one of his facts is wrong, and he projects his own scientific malfeasance on to others. His job at the “Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions” tells us that he is a snake oil salesman charged with selling a completely useless product to the public.