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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| California Is Burning and It's Not Because of 'Climate Change' |
| 2019-10-26 |
| [Townhall] Liberals are blaming California's wildfires on "climate change." Apparently, climate change now causes wildfires, but only in the state of California. Before this week, liberals thought rising sea levels would wash the state away. Now, they believe it will go up in flames unless we do something immediately to stop "climate change." But climate change hasn't turned California into a tinderbox, the environmentalists have. California power company PG&E is preparing to pull the plug on 850,000 of its customers. PG&E has been deliberately cutting power to its customers in an effort to avoid wildfires. It isn't working. Massive wildfires erupted in areas where PG&E provides service. The Tick Fire has burned down several homes and caused the evacuation of more than 40,000 people so far, and other wildfires are burning throughout the state. In Sonoma County, the Kincade Fire has already torched 34 square miles and destroyed 49 homes. That fire was likely caused by a broken transmission line belonging to PG&E. But PG&E's equipment couldn't start these huge wildfires without a bunch of dead brush fueling the flames. As Chuck Devore writes in Forbes, "the outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a consequence of California's Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork." It's not climate change that's responsible for these massive fires, "it's decades of environmental mismanagement that has created a tinderbox of unharvested timber, dead trees, and thick underbrush." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 California worked when it fluxuated between GOP and Democrat Govenors. Schwarzenegger screwed up the balance because he wasn't really a conservative of the normal GOP type so he couldn't undo the damage. Similar thing has happened to the US with W being not really Conservative and not undoing the economic/budget damage Democrats typically do while in office. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-10-26 21:59 |
| #12 You know what I think ? I think you should build another wall from Oregon to Arizona. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-10-26 19:37 |
| #11 As Mencken said, the electorate should get what it votes for. Good and hard. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-26 17:59 |
| #10 Self-dealing via outrageous pension deals is the primary form of graft in Mexifornia. Deeply entrenched. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-26 14:25 |
| #9 It's basic graft, but most graft metastasises in socialist countries because there's no competition. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-10-26 14:23 |
| #8 California is America's exercise in socialism. As a state it had one of the top ten economies in the world. After Jerry brown and the current rash of socialist/democrat California's state run power company is shutting its power to almost a million paying customers because they don't have the money to trim the trees next to the power lines. Its not the fire, heat, or old equipment, its no funding for basic safety maintenance. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-10-26 13:58 |
| #7 The so called California government sez: The triangle of fire? Never heard of it. You say you need
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| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2019-10-26 13:14 |
| #6 didn't do the basic infrastructure upgrades didn't do the basic road maintenance didn't do the basic law enforcement and deport illegals didn't do the basic drought management and build more reservoirs to capture rainwater didn't do the basic employment law enforcement didn't do the basic energy policy and permit drilling in the Monterey Shale didn't do the basic education policy and stop Common Core etc malpractice didn't do the basic funding of the UC System, instead filling nearly half the seats with ChiCom millionaires' brats and other inferior out of state applicant's who pay 3x the tuition rate paid by Californians = Shitshow of Shitshows. That's California, Jake |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-26 11:32 |
| #5 Wealthier parts of the state have the power lines below ground. The tinderbox areas have them above ground. During the 90s internet boom California had all the money they could ever dream of and didn't do the basic infrastructure upgrades. Somebody really should be tarred and feathered. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-10-26 11:24 |
| #4 "the outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a consequence of California's Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork." It's not climate change; it's ... ... The Shitshow, Part 152 |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-26 11:22 |
| #3 That transmission line isn't broken. It's delivering 120KV of power exactly the way it was designed to do. You just need to be a little careful around it. |
| Posted by: Matt 2019-10-26 10:30 |
| #2 Well, they get that they voted for. I just hope the rest of USA IS watching |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-10-26 09:09 |
| #1 Eat (Soylent) Green and live |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-10-26 07:43 |