tomo. A highly esteemed Guardian report today covers Stone’s comments on Alex Jones’ Infowars online programme. I’m sure you can verify this report independently, I refuse to waste my time on a “right wing firebrand and convicted criminal”.

The highly esteemed Guardian pitches in on economics and investment:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/14/uk-cities-covid-wealth-urban-centres-shareholders

And to think that people pay real money for it!

Charly. Have you ever read the Guardian? I read it as a student in the 1950s and 1960s, as a researcher and when I returned as an academic in the 1990s to the present day. Currently I read the environmental material within it to find out what the environmentalists are reporting, but I pinch my nose or throw salt about in all directions. Most of the paper isn’t about climate and they have a good stable of reporters and commentators who present the world’s happenings with a leftish slant that caters for my prejudices. Not for you no doubt, but then I can’t stand the rightish slant of papers like the Telegraph and Times.

My older brother and his classmates took a subscription to the Guardian when I was 11. I read it every day. Then they wanted to add a subscription to the Telegraph. The socialist housemaster wouldn't allow it. Early cancel culture, I suppose.

I do look at Guardian articles when they are brought to my attention here and elsewhere. Most of the journos are scientifically and economically challenged, and most of the stuff on social issues is risible.

It's not just the Guardian. The UK MSM is a disgrace.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/13/roger-stone-to-donald-trump-bring-in-martial-law-if-you-lose-election

A testable, falsifiable prediction from the Professor.

It'll start getting cooler, you just watch

Phew. Panic over.

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1305591518120550401

"went back and started 6 more fires*

I wonder at the difference between Federal fires and State Fires.
Have the Feds done a better job at maintaining fire breaks and fuel load?

Good question. 58% of Californian forests are on Federal land, only 3% are owned by the State, the rest being privately owned. So when Trump criticises poor forest management, it is mainly on land his Administration is responsible for.

The State and the US Forestry Service recently signed a new joint state-federal initiative to "reduce wildfire risks, restore watersheds, protect habitat and biological diversity". This draws on funds provided by the Great American Outdoors Act, signed by Trump on August 4 so once again you have to wonder if he knows what the F he is talking about.

There was a talking head on the radio news last night and he identified three factors contributing to the severity of this year's California fire season (a record area burned already, with two months of the season remaining), climate change (duh), a trend for people to move to and build in areas at risk, and yes - fuel load.

Naturally when there is a forest fire, people want it put out before it spreads and damages people or property. But this has meant parts of the forest that a few decades ago were regularly burned out have been allowed to accumulate dead and dried out material, storing up trouble.

But those big goals are decades late, say fire ecologists. They have long pointed to the mid-elevation pine and mixed-conifer belt of the Sierra Nevada as a place desperately in need of the frequent, low-intensity burns that shaped the forest before settlers and a century of government fire suppression policies snuffed them out.

The elimination of indigenous fire practices, logging of the biggest and most fire-resistant trees and fire suppression produced an overgrown forest vulnerable to bark beetle attacks during the severe California drought of 2012-16.

Some areas have 500 to 800 trees per acre, compared with 60 to 100 pre-settlement. As North puts it, there were too many straws in the dry ground competing for water. The beetle toll was the greatest in the densest stands. There dead fuel will keep piling up for years to come.

(BTW Pine Bark Beetle has thrived due to the warmer winters).

I doubt the Fire Service can just refuse to put out a fire, so the solution is thinning and prescribed burning, which some have been advocating for years. But burning can only happen under certain weather conditions, is expensive and not without risk. One prescribed burn in New Mexico became uncontrolled, destroying 400 homes and causing $1 billion in damages.

Better get those rakes out.

No collusion between Russia and Trump campaign huh?

;-)

Sep 15, 2020 at 8:14 AM Phil Clarke
It is clear that US Democrats need to burn their New Green Deals and other Climate Science disasters. Even Claifornians are starting to peer through the haze of cannabis smoke that has engulfed them.

Juan Brown is in the middle of the fires
https://www.youtube.com/user/blancolirio

Sep 15, 2020 at 8:49 AM tomo

It is tragic for California's non cannabis smoking taxpayers that institutionalised stupidity has spread throughout the State's Administration. The fires have swept around Lake Oroville and the Feather River, scenes of mass evacuations as the dam threatened to fail as a result of misappropriation of funds necessary to maintain the dam.

Climate Science funded liars blamed lack of maintenance on Global Warming at Whaley Bridge Dam too.

Climate Science keeps stealing the Taxpayer Funding for their monuments of disaster, and then demands more for vanity projects.

It is just possible that BBC News Editors may have to tear up some of their scripts.

Oh I dunno. Climate arsonist sticks in the mind.

Climate arsonist sticks in the mind.

Sep 15, 2020 at 11:45 AM Phil Clarke
Very apt!
What will California's Democrats burn up next? The bits of the USA that BLM missed?

https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1304583508220809216

Sep 15, 2020 at 3:26 PM Phil Clarke

As Climate Science continues to destroy the lives of the poorest people in all Continents, have Democrats and BLM noticed the ethnic minority bias of Real Climate?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealClimate

As of July 2017 notable contributors to RealClimate included:[9]

David Archer
Rasmus Emil Benestad
Raymond S. Bradley
Michael E. Mann
Raymond Pierrehumbert
Stefan Rahmstorf
Gavin Schmidt
Eric Steig
Past contributors include:
William Connolley

With Idi Amin, Osama bin Ladin and Robert Mugabe all past their sell by dates, how can the unbalanced line up be maintained?