CALIFORNIA Climate Ambulance Chasers

CALI Climate Ambulance Chasers - CLIMATISM

CALI Climate Ambulance Chasers | Climatism


No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world
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– Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment

We’ve got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy.

– Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation

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IN the era of Global Warming Climate Change hysteria, every and any “extreme weather” or climatic event is instantly blamed on humans and their wicked ways.

RUSHING to ideological and schizophrenic judgement is at best lazy. At worst, such deliberate grandstanding prevents salient solutions to real environmental problems and climate mitigation challenges we face everyday as a society.

THIS fashionable and dangerous eco-paradigm no more obvious than in the tragic California fires, still smouldering.

MENTION “land management” as a solution to prevent future wildfire catastrophes, and the climate mafia will viciously deride one a “denier”, “flat-earther”, “right wing nut job”, “shill of the oil industry” or maybe a “racist” if you’re still hanging around.

ANY name will do, as long as the pejorative is sufficient enough to prevent the conversation shifting away from “CLIMATE CHANGE!”.

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MEDIA HYSTERIA Inc …

Scientists see fingerprints of climate change all over California_s wildfires - SFChronicle.com

Scientists see fingerprints of climate change all over California’s wildfires – SFChronicle.com

Fire chief - climate change helped make California wildfires more devastating | US news | The Guardian

Fire chief: climate change helped make California wildfires more devastating | US news | The Guardian

We won_t stop California_s wildfires if we don_t talk about climate change - The Washington Post

We won’t stop California’s wildfires if we don’t talk about climate change – The Washington Post

California wildfires 2018 - Climate change is making wildfires worse - Vox

California wildfires 2018: Climate change is making wildfires worse – Vox

California fires - what is happening and is climate change to blame? | US news | The Guardian

California fires: what is happening and is climate change to blame? | US news | The Guardian

Alex Hall - How Climate Change is Fueling Southern California Wildfires | Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA

Alex Hall: How Climate Change is Fueling Southern California Wildfires | Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA

The many ways climate change worsens California wildfires » Yale Climate Connections

The many ways climate change worsens California wildfires » Yale Climate Connections

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SO, while California burned and the Climate Ambulance Chasers blamed, more measured minds were assessing causes of the fires with data and reasoning instead of defaulting to emotions, politics and groupthink ideology.

Paul Homewood is one who thinks rather than blames. His research helping to quell the superstition and paranoia endlessly levelled by global warming zealots whenever catastrophe strikes.

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HOMEWOOD’s latest post begins with a typical Paul Driessen fact-packed and, as usual, beautifully written masterpiece “Blaming climate – ignoring incompetence – CFACT“.

(Highly recommend Driessen’s work wherever you come across it!)

SEE: Paul Driessen | Search Climatism

Blaming climate – ignoring incompetence - CFACT

Blaming climate – ignoring incompetence – CFACT

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HOMEWOOD then nuts out the data surrounding the Cali fires, dispelling alarmist claims of CO2-induced “extreme weather” as the root cause …

CFACT are of course dead right. There is really very little point in blaming weather/climate when you can do nothing about it anyway. It is government’s job to tackle the problems they can do something about.

But as for claims about climate change, is there actually anything to them?

Let’s take a look at temperatures for a start.

Orland, CA is near to the Paradise fire and has good, long term meteorological data. Using data from the Western Regional Climate Center, we can plot summertime daily maximums back to 1903:

https-::wrcc.dri.edu:cgi-bin:cliMAIN.pl

https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca6506

 

As we can see, the hottest summers were in 1908 and 1917. Summers now are much cooler than the period prior to 1940.

We find the same pattern with the highest daily temperatures measured each year:

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http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu/

 

Record temperatures of 120F were set in 1905 and 1908 at Orland. The highest this year was just 107F:

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https://wrcc.dri.edu/WRCCWrappers.py?sodxtrmts+046506+por+por+maxt+none+mmax+5+01+F

 

Indeed there has been very little out of the ordinary at all with temperatures this summer:

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http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu/

 

Of course it has also been dry this year, but again nothing unusual as far as that part of California is concerned. ( Div 2 is the Sacramento Drainage Division):

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https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/divisional/time-series/0402/pcp/12/9/1895-2018?base_prd=true&firstbaseyear=1901&lastbaseyear=2000

 

And as we know, the 20thC was an unusually wet interlude, as far as California’s longer history is concerned:

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https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/nasa-megadrought-lasting-decades-is-99-certain-in-american-southwest/

 

Anybody who uses tries to blame California’s wildfires on “extreme weather” is not only flying in the face of the facts, but also failing to deal with the real causes.

Blaming Climate–Ignoring Incompetence | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

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BONUS CHART 

IN terms of area burned, US wildfires were a lot worse earlier in the 20th Century when CO2 was at “safe levels”:

US Forest Area Burned 1926 - 2017

US Forest Area Burned 1926 – 2017

Via @BigJoeBastardi

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PARADISE California Hasn’t Been Experiencing A Drought

NEWS FLASH! Climate change and drought would thin out forests. Jerry Brown admits that the forests are overly dense. How do you get overly dense forests in a drought? Climate change didn’t cause all the tightly packed homes to be built in the forests.

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“THE DUST BOWL ERA”

US drought was far worse in the 1930’s, during the “dust bowl” era, when CO2 was at “safe levels”:

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Historical Palmer Drought Indices | Temperature, Precipitation, and Drought | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

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LET’s study the data and the facts before we yell “GLOBAL WARMING” at every pass. We will achieve a lot more for a fraction of the political, social and environmental cost!

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