Alaska’s fire season is now more than a month longer than it was in 1950. At one point this summer, more than 300 wildfires were burning at once. Southeast of here, in our Pacific Northwest, even the rainforest is on fire…this is a threat to many communities.

Obama Prophesies Climate Nightmare: Famine, Floods, Fire, Fumes and Fighting | MRCTV

Whatever Obama says, the exact opposite is true. According to the BLM, Alaska’s largest forest fires occurred during the 1940’s and 1950’s

Forest fires decreased in Alaska after the end of the Little Ice Age

Despite high variability at interannual to decadal scales, larger trends occur at the centennial scale. A  widespread trend found in dendrochronological studies across boreal Canada has been the decrease in  fire frequency following the end of the Little Ice Age in the mid 19th century (Brassard and Chen 2006).

https://www.firescience.gov/projects/06-3-1-26/project/06-3-1-26_final_report.pdf

America’s largest fire occurred in the…

By Michael Greibrok ~

The seas are rising and Sandy-like storm surges are going to be a “new normal,” according to Slate.

Slate’s Bad Astronomy writer Phil Plait highlighted a NASA study that showed a rise in sea levels since 1992 in his Aug. 31 article. Repeated the fears of many climate alarmists, he blamed that rise on global warming and warned, “we’ll see beaches disappear, coastlines changed.”

The NASA study he cited showed an average sea level rise of 2.5 inches since 1992, with some localized rises of more than 9 inches. But in other places, including the northeast coast of the United States, sea levels had actually declined. Much of this localization sea level changes was attributed to ocean currents.

Plait blamed carbon dioxide-induced global warming for the rise in spite of the fact that rising sea levels are not a new phenomenon. In fact, it has…

Suzlon S88 Gearbox adopts ‘early retirement’ plan at Jamestown, SA.

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Among the grab bag of lies pedalled by wind power outfits, and especially fan makers, is that these things will run on the smell of an oily rag, without the need of so much as a shifting spanner, for more than 25 years.

The pitch is made to beguile the gullible (read, ‘planning authorities’, ‘politicians’, ‘bankers’ and ‘investors’) into believing that the costs associated with operating these things, can be readily covered out of petty cash – which fits with the other great line about there being nothing as ‘free’ as the wind.

Mechanical wear and tear, including bearing failure is one of the most common reasons for turbines to be put out of action; and is one of the key factors that accounts for the fact that the ‘economic’ life of wind turbines is 10-12 years, which runs…