Katharine Hayhoe, who is too scared to debate me and blocks everyone who communicates with me on twitter, was troubled by all the cold and snow in Texas in 2015. In order to get the audience to listen to her climate BS, Canadian Hayhoe patronized about West Texas, barbecue, football and friendly cotton farmers.
Her laugh reminds me of a familiar laugh from the Wizard of Oz.
Whenever I post the graph below, climate scam deniers come up with all sorts of excuses. Like : “they used to start the fires intentionally” or “firefighting techniques got better” or “people didn’t used to know how to do addition.”
Indicator 3.16: Area and percent of forest affected by abiotic agents
Unfortunately for their theories, fire burn acreage in the US very closely tracks how hot summers are.
Temperature Changes in the United States – Climate Science Special Report
The climate scam completely depends on climate scam deniers ignoring history, and refusing to look at inconvenient data.
Authorities almost always claim now that fire danger is high, even if it is lowest on record. I took this picture on July 3rd just west of Boulder. You probably couldn’t have started a fire if your life depended on it.
I’m just back from Los Alamos. Eight years ago, the largest fire in New Mexico history was started by a power line, and burned up a large area west of Los Alamos.
Las Conchas Fire Archives – Wildfire Today
Scientists are trying to understand the true effects of climate change on the fire, because apparently climate change affects power lines.
Scientists tell us that climate change is a critical contributor.
Many people I knew in Los Alamos were certain it was the worst thing that ever happened, and the mountain would never recover.
This is what the 2011 burn area looked like yesterday.
I took these pictures there in May.
If the “scientists” quoted by the press and at the US Park Service did any actual research, they would have known that drought in New Mexico is cyclical, and that the recent drought was nothing unusual.
OliverHarleyMaxwell19-April30-2500Yrs-HydroClimateVar-NewMexico
Precipitation in Los Alamos is about the same as a century ago.
Temperatures in Los Alamos are about the same as when I was born there in the 1950s.
ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00295084.dly
There have always been large fires in that area, like this one across the Rio Grande Valley in 1890.
Spokane Falls Daily Chronicle – Google News Archive Search
This is what the 1890 burn area looks like now in Autumn.
Fire is an essential part of the forest cycle, but the number of fires in the US has dropped in half over the past decade.
National Interagency Fire Center
Forest fire burn acreage is down 80% over the past 90 years.
National Interagency Fire Center
And down 90% from pre-industrial times. Unfortunate that Department of the Interior scientists don’t bother to consult their own research, and that I have to spend 30 seconds doing it for them.
Wisconsin has had 334 days since 1895 over 100 degrees, 93% of which occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. On this date in 1936, it was 113 degrees at Stanley, Wisconsin. The only years when Wisconsin reached 110 degrees were 1901 and 1936. There have been no 100 degree days in Wisconsin for seven years.
China’s solar industry had been dependent on the US Government transferring US taxpayer money to China via solar panel subsidies, but apparently that isn’t working any more.
China has slashed clean energy funding by 39%, leading a global decline – MIT Technology Review
Meanwhile, they are building hundreds of new coal fired power plants, in a “dramatic step to fight climate change” – as NPR describes it.
The US Women’s soccer team, which can’t beat middle school boys, is demanding equal pay with the men’s team.
FC Dallas under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women’s National Team in a scrimmage
Meanwhile, you can pick up tickets for tomorrow’s men’s Wimbledon semi-final – for only $9,000.
Federer-Nadal Wimbledon tickets vault to staggering costs – AOL News
Colorado elected a real genius, whose public relations skills are every bit as good as his desire to shut down Colorado’s #1 industry – oil and gas.
To get a feel for how dimwitted Polis’ comment was, imagine the New Mexico governor calling Colorado’s skiing “inferior.”
