8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (3)
#7788185 at 2020-01-12 02:29:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9968: Darkest Before The Dawn Edition
Climate experts back up Trump claim on California wildfires
President Trump might be right about land management and California wildfires, according to climate experts. Scott Stephens, a University of California, Berkeley professor of fire science, said 75% of the damage from the wildfires was because of "the way we manage lands and develop our landscape." The comments made earlier this week echo what Trump said over a year ago. "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," the president said. "Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!"
"Fire was almost as important as rain to ecosystems," Stephens added. Jennifer Montgomery, a director of the California Forest Management Task Force, concurred with the point. "Wildfire is not really wildfire - it's not pointy green trees," she said. "You get these so-called wildfires at intersection of development." In 2018, California saw over 225,000 acres of land burned along with 7,000 structures destroyed when Trump blamed land management. In 2019, hundreds of thousands of people had to evacuate their homes because of the wildfires. Pacific Gas and Electric shut off power in high-wind areas to try to stop wildfires. The blackouts ended up affecting millions of residents.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/climate-experts-back-up-trump-claim-on-california-wildfires
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1061168803218948096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
#7784515 at 2020-01-11 18:53:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9963: Comfy Winter Weekend. Practice Baking! Edition
Climate Experts Suggest Trump Was Right When He Blamed California's Wildfires On Land Management
Climate experts are apparently backing President Donald Trump's repeated arguments that California's wildfires were a result of poor land management rather than climate change, E&E reported Thursday.
Roughly 75% of damage stemming from California's wildfires was a result of "the way we manage lands and develop our landscape," Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday at a conference in Washington.
Wildfires used to burn through 4.5 million acres a year in the 18th century, when indigenous communities populated California's countryside, Stephens noted. "Fire was almost as important as rain to ecosystems," he added.
Stephens was not the only researcher at the National Council for Science and the Environment to made that point. "Wildfire is not really wildfire - it's not pointy green trees," Jennifer Montgomery, director of the California Forest Management Task Force, added.
Montgomery continued: "You get these so-called wildfires at intersection of development."
Trump makes similar arguments.
"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," the president tweeted in September 2018 when fires were scorching their way across the Golden State.
The cost associated with firefighting is increasing dramatically, hitting a record $1.1 billion in 2017. The president signed "fire funding fix" legislation in 2018 to give federal agencies $2.25 billion to fight fires starting in 2020. That amount would increase to nearly $3 billion by 2027.
Montgomery and Stephens' comments also come in stark contrast to remarks made by California's largest power utility.
California's "prolonged, record drought; unprecedented tree mortality; heat waves;" and offshore "Diablo" winds created "a significant and an unforeseen increase in wildfires," PG&E CEO Bill Johnson told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in December.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/11/uk-counter-terrorism-police-listed-extinction-rebellion-extremist-group/
#7773476 at 2020-01-10 18:11:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9949: Keep Your Stick on the Ice Edition
A panel of experts said Wednesday that California's devastating wildfires were caused primarily by "the way we manage lands and develop our landscape" rather than climate change.
Speaking at the annual conference of the National Council for Science and the Environment in Washington D.C., Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley, said that perhaps 20 to 25 percent of the wildfire damage resulted from climate change, whereas "75 percent is the way we manage lands and develop our landscape."
Stephens noted that in past centuries, wildfires were far more widespread than they are today, and played a vital role in California's ecosystem by helping to thin forests, Thomas Frank reported for E&E News.
In the 18th century, for instance, when California was occupied by indigenous communities, wildfires would burn up some 4.5 million acres a year, said Stephens, whereas from 2013 through 2019, wildfires burned an average of just 935,000 acres annually in California.
Even in 2018, the worst year for California fires, blazes consumed just 2 million acres.
"When you think about what fire used to do in the state, it was so integral to systems. Fire was almost as important as rain to ecosystems," Stephens said.
Jennifer Montgomery, director of the California Forest Management Task Force, said that climate change did not cause wildfires but "accelerated" them by creating hotter and drier conditions that aggravated naturally occurring blazes.
"Climate change is an amplifier for natural systems and natural occurrences," Montgomery said.
The comments by Montgomery and Stephens flew in the face of recent assertions by the head of California's largest power utility who has blamed the wildfires on climate change.
The CEO of PG&E Corp., CEO Bill Johnson, testified at a Senate hearing last month that the wildfires were "a climate-driven experience" caused by extensive drought.
California's "prolonged, record drought; unprecedented tree mortality; heat waves" and offshore Diablo winds created "a significant and an unforeseen increase in wildfires," Johnson told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
A December report by California regulators, however, said that PG&E and subsidiary Pacific Gas and Electric Co. had "failed to maintain an effective inspection and maintenance program to identify and correct hazardous conditions on its transmission lines."
The utility has acknowledged blame for the massive 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and burned more than 150,000 acres in Northern California.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/01/10/experts-say-california-wildfires-not-caused-by-climate-change/