Monday, January 13, 2025

What is happening in California



The video is a utuber who is doing a shout out.  Something is going on and it is hardly kosher.  

It is completely plausible to ignite scrugbrush using drone carried incendaries and even to recover those driones.

Without question it is now wildfire season.  However the outbreak is way over the top.  local equipment can normally get on top of this, but not today.

We need to operate large herds of goats on a grazing pattern around all housing and ensure beavers are in all reentries with a sniff of water.  It can actually pay for itself and ultimately set up grass lands as well for cattle.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzzoCw3Q5o8

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US Geological Survey scientist Jon Keeley: ‘L.A. Fires Not The Result Of Climate Change’ – Scrubland plant ‘fires have been around for at least 20 million years. What’s changed is we have people on the landscape’

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“Chaparral fires have been around for at least 20 million years,” says a leading US government scientist. “What’s changed is we have people on the landscape”


Two people are dead, and 80,000 have been forced to evacuate neighborhoods in Los Angeles thanks to fires raging out of control. According to the media and some scientists, climate change is causing the fires. “Researchers believe that a warming world is increasing the conditions that are conducive to wildland fire, including low relative humidity,” reported the BBC.

But one of the country’s top fire experts disagrees. “I don’t think these fires are the result of climate change,” Jon Keeley, a US Geological Survey scientist, told Public. “You certainly could get these events without climate change.”

Keeley has researched the topic for 40 years. In 2017, Keeley and a team of scientists modeled thirty-seven different regions across the United States and found that “humans may not only influence fire regimes but their presence can actually override, or swamp out, the effects of climate.”

Keeley’s team found that the only statistically significant factors for the frequency and severity of fires on an annual basis were population and proximity to development. “We’ve looked at the history of climate and fire throughout the whole state,” said Keeley, “and through much of the state, particularly the western half of the state, we don’t see any relationship between past climates and the amount of area burned in any given year.”

What about scientists who claim that the dry conditions are unusual? “If you look at the past 100 years of climates in Southern California,” said Keeley, “you will find there have been Januaries that have been very dry. And there’s been autumns that have been very dry. There have been Santa Ana winds in January. So these sorts of conditions are what contribute to a fire being particularly destructive at this time of the year. But it’s not the result of climate change.”

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