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In reply to the discussion: A question on climate change [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)50. The issue is not with deliberately set
95% of fires are human caused, per CAL FIRE, last awareness week data.
The problem is how fast they spread because of Sept-Oct weather patterns in May. And I do hope those two kids face the extent of the law, and that the rest are caught.
We have been having a lot of fires in San Diego in the recent past. Was going through the paper's list just for the last three months, and it matches CAL FIRE's experience. It is absolutely nuts.
Things that start a fire, apart of the deliberately set. Any spark will do when it is this hot, a catalytic converter falling apart, a few of the local recent fires were that. Some idiot playing with shot guns... we have had a few of those. I could go on
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It's indeed possible that climate change may have had an (indirect) effect on the wildfires.........
AverageJoe90
May 2014
#1
Saw yesterday that Rubio's taking flak for his climate change denial,
Benton D Struckcheon
May 2014
#2
The more fires you show deniers, the more they double down on their obstinacy.
immoderate
May 2014
#3
Nadin, I think that people by and large are still looking at these events from the in my back yard
jwirr
May 2014
#5
Yes, and I think it is already showing up in some foods. We are still getting most of the foods but
jwirr
May 2014
#7
Many in this country did not even know about the droughts in Australia because our MSM does not
jwirr
May 2014
#60
Nine fires in one day in a definite pattern, and you call it global warming.
Dreamer Tatum
May 2014
#10
Absolutely made possible by the spreading of dry, droughty, fire-prone conditions
villager
May 2014
#69
Of course. No one's saying the pattern doesn't indicate arson. But we've always had arson
villager
May 2014
#72
As long as money controls legislation we won't do very much as a nation on this issue
Johonny
May 2014
#11
Let's exaggerate the consequences of wind energy and try to turn public opinion against it!
kristopher
May 2014
#17
Sigh. No, climate change produced the environment for large brush fires by possible arsonists.
haele
May 2014
#73
I can't address San Diego, but my rural Northern California area totally gets it
Brother Buzz
May 2014
#45