Record wildfire season
By on Sep 14th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Record wildfire season
may be linked to global warming. Scientific studies published last month support the link. But the media is ignoring the story.
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No shit….*cough*
September 14th, 2006 at 12:46 pmDamn, where’s that little box of paper mask’s the gov. told us to wear, the masking tape and plastic window covering are in that box….Crap I can’t see well enough to find them……
Heard a few day’s ago this is the worst fire season in over 50 year’s…Hummmmm. bull shit bush must be playing with matches again..Blessings
September 14th, 2006 at 12:54 pmRecord wildfire season may be link to global warning>—and to the states’ National Gurad and reservists that are consigned in that Big Fat Lie known as the Iraq war.
September 14th, 2006 at 1:02 pmWhere There’s Smoke
August 27, 2006
The article “Bad fire year despite lack of big one†by Kirk Johnson makes the case for wildfires raging out of control in the Midwest. As of last week 7.1 million acres went up in smoke. Regardless whether the heat wave is “complex and diffuse†one simple explanation was not mentioned in the article: the absent of the National Guard. Mr. Johnson point out the causes such as the heat waves shattering 2,300 records across the country; the expanding of dry grasses and the early evaporating of spring snow. But not one word of the National Guard. The absent of the Guard is just as important as the destructive heat wave. Two years ago our nation governors arrived in Seattle, Washington to complain to senior Pentagon officials that they were facing severe manpower shortages in fighting wildfires. The Iraq war brought focus to their conference of why half of their Guard was sent to Iraq while their states were burning. Their concern was if they didn’t have the personnel to put them out the fires they will grow into “catastrophic fires.†You know, the “Big One.†Now that what I consider a significant cause for our runaway wildfires.
September 14th, 2006 at 1:09 pmI predicted this fire season during last winter, it totally sucked, no snowpack to speak of. I count myself lucky this year in the forests of AZ, we almost had a catostrophic wildfire sweep through the city, but with some luck and some damn good firefighting, we made it unscathed. I feel for those who are dealing with fires in their areas, the smoke totally degrades the quality of life during the time it is present.
We are not out of the woods so to speak, AZ had the second largest wildfire in US recorded history a couple years ago, 450,000 acres, Rodeo-Chedeski fire. And drought conditions continue. They say this year is an El-Nino year, which is good for the Southwest and bad for the Northwest, Sorry Zooey.
September 14th, 2006 at 1:19 pm*cough*
September 14th, 2006 at 1:42 pmHello Zooey, don’t talk if you are too busy coughing. Just nod your head. And wave.
September 14th, 2006 at 1:51 pmice ages have occured. Then it got warmer, how did that happen. Were the democrat neanderthals burning too many bras?
September 14th, 2006 at 1:55 pmss
September 14th, 2006 at 1:56 pmYes Many Previous,
Archeologists have discovered evidence that neandertal Democrats were burning too many bras, but considering these bras were made of rock they didn’t burn too well, so that theory was de-bunked.
But I should note that same team of archeologists did discover an ancient race of skeleton people.
September 14th, 2006 at 2:05 pm*waving*
(commenting at work, very naughty)
:-)
September 14th, 2006 at 2:05 pmGood to see the waving Zooey, I have to go to a United Way luncheon here in a minute, I love free lunch. Talk to you later.
:^)
September 14th, 2006 at 2:09 pm[…] Being in insurance as I am, when we have a record wildfire season I notice. Scientists have linked it to Global Warming, but the media is ignoring the story. Why is that? […]
September 15th, 2006 at 10:08 amFire To Home No Insurance
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