Lighting and arson are only responsible for the number of fires which remains roughly consistent over the years. But the magnitude of the fires has increased and THAT is all about the abundance of fuel which is created by the hotter, drier climate caused by global warming, caused by increased levels of greenhouse gases emitted by an industry that refuses to stop and is allowed to continue because of... Republicans.

If you can't connect the dots then it's better to be "friggin dork" than to be you.

What about them? People do stupid things. There was a gender-reveal party just the other day in Ohio that killed a grandma.

But like I've already said, the sparks (arsonists, powerlines, reveal parties, cigarette butts, etc...) haven't changed. Bad or stupid people have been setting fires forever. The number of fires haven't changed either. The MAGNITUDE of the fires HAVE changed.

So it's not the sparks... it's the amount of fuel as provided by the drier and hotter climate caused by global warming which I correctly blame on Republicans that is making the difference.

Green belts - LOL!!!! Compared to the vast wilderness in the western states, your green belts are like miniature golf courses. I used to take walks through the green belts in NC. They're nice, but their basically manicured parks. And by the way, California hasn't had any fires on their miniature golf courses, decorated lawns and community parks either.



OK well now you're talking. But keep in mind the only reason why the TX Department of Weather Modification works at all is because there are clouds in Texas to start with. All cloud seeding does is make the water in the clouds come down before they blow away. That's all it is!

So how is that going to fix an actual drought where there ARE no clouds? Even the website for the Texas Department of Weather Modification says... "Weather Modification in Texas is a long term water management strategy and is not expected to suppress a drought or fill area lakes, rivers or reservoirs overnight."

http://www.texasweathermodification.com

As for the arsonists - they ARE arrested.

People who can't think for themselves present no arguments of their own. Instead they gather links in the hopes that that somehow a long list of links will make up for it... the longer the list the more intelligent they imagine the content must me.

I'm not going to spend hours reading all the BS you link to. I can find all that crap on my own anyway. There's lots of crackpots and liars out there all trying to publish their BS.

If you want to disprove any of my assertions, you need to present an argument. If you can't do that then by all means find someone else's argument but you will still need to at least understand how it counters my argument, otherwise it's irrelevant.

Says the guy who must be really confused about how icebergs can exist in the Arctic when the temperature in Texas is 100'F LOL

I didn't say they weren't. Obviously my argument went right over your head.

The terms haven't changed. Global warming refers to the increase in the global mean temperature and that is still the term we use today. But some people are rather dim-witted and don't realize the planet has many climates that can be affected differently. They think global warming works like a thermostat in a living room where every square inch of the room is heated evenly. LOL

After years of trying to explain the concept of multiple climates being affected by global warming differently (droughts here and floods there, etc...) the left decided to give up and just go with "climate change", a general reference to the effects that global warming has on the various climates that the dim-wits can actually see happening without straining their stunted brains.

So, the terms mean two different things, with one thing (too difficult for the average Republican to understand) causes the other (which should be obvious enough for an idiot to see).

Yes, fires have been going on since there have been forests. But they were never this intense or as widespread as they are now. At least, not since humans have been here. In case you didn't know, size matters.


Tell that to your idiot friends.


Of course.


No, I'm not going to point my finger elsewhere just because you want to deny the overwhelming evidence that the current warming trend is man-made.

You're details are distorted. What they decommissioned was coal-fired power plants and they replaced them with natural gas, which is still a fossil fuel, but it's much cleaner than coal. California also experienced rapid growth in their economy which created more demand for energy bringing the grid to near capacity. Add to that the global warming with its record-breaking heat waves that Republicans gave us and the demand spikes as people turn their AC units on. That's how you get rolling black outs.


Just to note, the RBO didn't cause the heat waves, global warming did. The RBO's simply remove the ability for people to use their AC to escape the heat. As a result, yes I think some people have died from the heat, but nothing like the fires. Either way, Republicans are to blame for both fires and RBOs by way of the global warming they ushered into our lives.

Let me make something very clear. No one has EVER systematically cleared the underbrush from America's wilderness and there's a simple reason for that. It's too big. We don't have the facilities and we don't have the money, we never did and we probably never will. It's an utterly useless idea.

The only reason why I mentioned Trump's responsibility for federal land was to correct someone's assumption that California is responsible for managing the land that caught fire.

I wasn't suggesting that he or any previous president could have avoided the fires through something as idiotic as clearing the underbrush. But if you notice, I'm not blaming any particular president or administration either.

But I *am* blaming those who continued to vote for the Republicans that consistently blocked every attempt to curb emissions over the past 30 years because THAT is how the underbrush became such a problem to start with.

Telling California that they need to clear the underbrush would be like me pissing on your doorstep and blaming you for the smell because YOU didn't clean it up.

Then how do you rationalize your diet? Are you Vegan? Are cows and pigs and chickens not innocent life? Do you eat veal where baby cows are imprisoned in dark cages knee deep in their own feces for the duration of their short lives? Yummy, yummy, you don't care?

Let's hear you rationalize how YOU pick and choose which innocent lives are not worth saving.

Not really the the same thing...

The Democrats are allowing early-term embryos to be aborted by qualified medical professionals in sterile environments to save them from growing into late-term babies where they would suffer much more pain as they are aborted in dirty garages, motel rooms or anywhere hidden from the law. That's called mercy.

The people the Republicans are killing span the entire range of development from conception to fully developed, sentient people with loving relationships to one another so that corporations can squeeze more profit out of their operations. That's called greed.

You're confusing issues here. Either that, or the people you listen to are intentionally confusing them for you.

The Sierra Club has indeed protested the harvesting of timber (from living trees) in environmentally critical areas, but they have NEVER stood in the way of ANY proposal to clear dead wood from the wilderness because no such thing has ever been proposed.

A proposal involves an actual plan and a motion on the floor to vote on on it. That never happened... Go ahead and check the legislative records... I have... it never happened and the reason should be obvious. It's not feasible. These fires are burning on wild land, not manicured parks. There are 33 million acres of wild land in California alone. It would take billions of dollars to clear out the underbrush and dead wood is useless to the tiber industry. So, you really think that's something the Republicans are going to propose? Get real. What YOU are referring to is what Republicans like to tell the media. "Oh well, we keep telling them to clear the underbrush and they won't have it." So they're lying, which is easy to do when you're not actually trying to make something work.



As they have been since America was born and yet fires were never this massive. So what changed? Do you not even think about that? The answer is climate change as caused by the emissions that the left has been trying to curb but the right always stands in the way. So the blame very clearly falls upon the right.

You don't point to any specific example nor do you present any evidence to counter my very-well established claim. That makes your response utterly useless other than to show that you're offended by someone who is calling you out for being an active part of the culture that kills innocent people and animals.

I'll agree that the clear cutting of dead trees may have helped, but do you have any clue how big an effort that would be? There's little or no profit to be made from it so it would have to be tax-funded and this isn't your backyard Sparky. California has 33 million acres of forest. The cost to tax payers would be enormous and if you're a Republican you already know it's not something the Republicans in Sacramento would support.

But it makes for a great scapegoat doesn't it?

BTW, it's not just California... The few states with anywhere close to 33 million acres of wilderness, such as Colorado and Oregon are also suffering from record breaking fires... Interestingly, a majority of the wilderness in these states are managed by the federal government under Trump. So it actually makes more sense to ask him why we aren't clear cutting all the dead trees. in 2019, 85% of the fires in California were on federal land!

And it's not just the western states where all the national forests are... Australia which has been under a conservative government for years is having a horrible time with record-breaking fires. Africa is also suffering. Record-breaking fires are raging all around the world and you want to blame it on California environmentalists?

Also, clear cutting dead trees from the vast wilderness is not something ANY state OR country has EVER done before. So obviously, THAT isn't the root cause of the problem. So try again Sparky.

As for the chemtrails, there's been a recent study in which 76 scientists found no evidence that chemtrails contain anything that can't be explained by the simple process of flying through the air at certain altitudes, much less as part of a nefarious conspiracy to sterilize people or control their minds or any of the other bizarre claims that come with the conspiracy theory. One scientist, referring to one isolated observation noticed levels of barium in the atmosphere were unusually high relative to the levels of barium in the soil. But there is nothing to suggest that was caused by the observed airplane.

But I gotta give you a standing ovation for actually trying to link the chemtrail conspiracy theory to the fires that are raging across the globe.