OK, then
Catastrophic fires sweeping Southern California are consistent with climate change models, according to an Oregon State University expert, and may be a prelude to many more blazes in the future as vegetation grows heavier than usual and then ignites during prolonged periods of drought.
“This is exactly what we’ve been projecting to happen, both in short-term fire forecasts for this year and the longer term patterns that can be linked to global climate change,†said Ronald Neilson, an OSU professor and bioclimatologist with the USDA Forest Service.
Yes, because this has never happened before, so it must be man made global warming. Whenever you see the phrase “climate change,” it refers to man as being the cause. Apparently, there have never been wild fires in California before, certainly not prior to Jan 20, 2001.
I’ve said before and I’ll say again, the climate is changing. Why? Because it always has, and always will, at least until the time when the Sun has used up all its normal hydrogen fuel, begin burning helium, turn into a Red Giants, and burn away the Earth.
There have been warm, cool, cold, and hot periods in the past. I do not remember SUVs being around.
Volcano’s blow off. Mountains rise and fall. Plate boundries change. The Sun does its thing. Glaciers come and go. Things change.
Did you know the Moon is receding around 4cm per year? Did you know that the North American plate is moving away from the European plate by around 1 inch per year? All these can effect climate. The Earth’s rotation will slow, the tides will become less intense, and the Atlantic gets bigger. Nature in play.
Did you know that as little as 3 million years ago, the Isthmus of Panama was under water? Due to plate tectonics, it closed up, changing the ocean circulatory patterns of the planet. Amazing, eh? Science in motion. Too bad the global warming as caused by Man adherents rely more on hysteria and feelings, instead of science. Yet they all fail to live the life they want everyone else to live. It always seems to be to “inconvenient” for them.
Meanwhile, all those believers are going to drop tons and tons of CO2, the gas that the climahysterics say is the main culprit, especially from SUVs owned by neocons, plan to travel to the resort island of Bali to spend a few hours discussing how everyone else should change, then spend some quality time relaxing on the tax payers dime. What, they couldn’t teleconfrence?
Now, if only the extreme environmentalists would allow us to clear the dead brush and have controlled burns, we wouldn’t get these massive fires in an area known for fires. Furthermore, when you live in an area that is prone to catastrophes, you are asking for trouble.
