According to the US Government, the US used to have ten times as much burn acreage as at present.
In the conterminous United States during the preindustrial period (1500- 1800), an average of 145 million acres burned annually. Today only 14 million acres (federal and non-federal) are burned annually by wildland fire from all ignition sources.
www.nwcg.gov/branches/ppm/fpc/archives/fire_policy/docs/chp1.pdf
h/t to chris y
The IPCC wants to bury the last 15 years cooling, and instead focus on the long term trend.
I’m happy to play that game. Let’s look at the entire hockey stick – going back to 1850. It indicates 0.7C warming over the past 163 years, which extrapolates to a laughable 0.38C warming for the rest of the century.
Either way, alarmists are completely screwed. The scam is dead and they have it on life-support.
Obama is focused on his drive-by attack of Syria, while his Chicago neighbors are taking care of the local drive-bys.
Everything is completely clear to John Kerry. And he learned a new word!
Report on Syria Chemical Weapons released, Kerry said evidence irrefutable
John Kerry statement | Syria | Declassified Report
“The science is clear. It is irrefutable and it is alarming,” Kerry told a climate conference in Majuro in the Marshall Islands in a video address from Washington.
Climate science alarming, irrefutable: Kerry | Bangkok Post: news
When the White House uses the word irrefutable, what they mean is that they are trying to rush something very destructive through, which wouldn’t stand up under any kind of serious debate.
Kerry says that Hitler used chemical weapons, while Kerry accidentally vindicated the Iraq war.
“Bashar Assad now joins the list of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein [who] have used these weapons in time of war,” he said.
Kerry: Samples from Syria tested positive for sarin – NBC Politics
Chris Matthews says that Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons.
We didn’t use them in World War II, Hitler didn’t use them, we don’t use chemical weapons.
I guess the thousands of tons of napalm bombs the US used to kill half a million civilians in Japan and Germany during WWII, were not made of chemicals. Also a good thing that nuclear weapons aren’t made of chemicals, because the US took out another 300,000 civilians with those.
Does anyone actually believe that Obama wouldn’t happily kill millions of Americans if a Civil War started in the US? Obama claiming morality as an excuse to bomb Syria is beyond laughable.
By the end of August 1886, there had already been seven hurricanes in the Atlantic, including five which hit the US. This year there have been no hurricanes.
At Indianola, Texas a storm surge of 15 feet overwhelmed the town. Every building in the town was either destroyed or left uninhabitable.
1886 Atlantic hurricane season – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The number of forest fires and burn acreage so far this year in the US is 62% of normal for date.
The only years which had fewer forest fires were 1983 and 1984.
In 1938, the US had six times as many forest fires.
US summer afternoons in 2013 were the 12th coolest since 1930, and more than 5ºF cooler than the summer of 1936. The trend is down about 1.5ºF since 1930.
The number of 100ºF readings in the US has also dropped dramatically since the 1930s, and was one of the lowest on record this summer.
U.S. and European Union envoys are seeking more clarity from the United Nations on a slowdown in global warming that climate skeptics have cited as a reason not to “panic” about environmental changes, leaked documents show.
The UN World Meteorological Organization defines climate as the average weather over a 30-year period, and scientists say the 15-year slowdown isn’t long enough to mark a trend. Hungary and Germany, both EU members, cited this as a reason to delete any reference to the hiatus in the summary, while Japan questioned the purpose of using a 15-year average.
Global Warming Slowdown Data Sought in UN Climate Report – Bloomberg
