The California wildfires..made worse by man made global warming...a relevant chart.

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  1. fhl

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    #31     Dec 10, 2017
  2. fhl

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    #32     Dec 10, 2017

  3. And you think that source is reliable and factual because?

    Marc Morano is the executive director and chief correspondent of ClimateDepot.com, a project of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). Morano is also the Communications Director at CFACT, a conservative think-tank in Washington D.C. that has received funding from ExxonMobil, Chevron, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars from foundations associated with Richard Mellon Scaife. According to 2011 IRS Forms (PDF), Morano was the highest paid staff member with a salary of $150,000 per year. Morano's blog Climate Depot regularly publishes articles questioning man-made global warming. [12], [13], [6], [37]

    Although he has no scientific expertise in the area, Morano has become a prominent climate change denier. He has been called “the Matt Drudge of climate denial,” the “King of the skeptics,” and a “central cell of the climate-denial machine.” He was also listed as one of 17 top “climate killers” by Rolling Stone Magazine. He has accused climate scientists of “fear mongering,” and has claimed that proponents of man-made global warming are “funded to the tune of $50 billion.[15], [16]

    From 2006 to 2009, Morano was the communications director for Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the minority chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Prior to the last election, Inhofe was the majority chair of the EPWcommittee. In the 2002 election cycle, Senator Inhofe received more in donations from the oil and gas sector than any other Senator. Sen. Inhofe is known for his infamous quote that the threat of catastrophic global warming is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” and as his communications director, Mornano has spent his recent years propagating this message. [3]

    According to Marc Morano's archived profile at the Heartland Institute, “Morano joined the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as the majority Communications Director in June 2006 after a decade and a half as a working journalist, documentary maker, radio talk show host, and national television correspondent.” Apart from being a regular speaker at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change, Morano is also listed on their website as a “global warming expert.” [2], [17]

    Prior to working for Senator Inhofe, Morano was a journalist with Cybercast News Service, which is owned and operated by the Media Research Center (MRC). The MRC is supported in part by right-wing foundations and funding from industry, including over $200,000 from ExxonMobil. From 1992 to 1996, Morano also worked as a producer for the Rush Limbaugh Television Show and was known as “Limbaugh's man in Washington.” Morano often appears on Fox news to promote his ideas regarding climate change. [4]
     
    #33     Dec 10, 2017
  4. WeToddDid2

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    #34     Dec 11, 2017
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  5. Snarkhund

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    Pesky facts.
     
    #35     Dec 11, 2017
  6. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    I notice how no distinction is made from wildfire to intentional fires to clear an area for farm use.
     
    #36     Dec 11, 2017
  7. Humpy

    Humpy

    They certainly had a bad year in 1930.
    Now that was when the recession had just kicked in, so maybe many of those fires were people trying to keep warm.

    Is there a legal case against whoever is meant to manage the forests but let people's houses burn down ?
     
    #37     Dec 11, 2017

  8. Yes good catch, and in 1930 how much fire fighting was employed vs more recent times. And that chart is not Cali.


    That chart traces back to this guy but there is no other validity. For all we know it is a complete fabrication. This guy runs a think tank looking for fossil fuel interest money and he's doing very well at it.


    Bjorn Lomborg[​IMG]



    President at Copenhagen Consensus Center


    for more about him


    https://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center
     
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    #38     Dec 11, 2017
  9. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    #39     Dec 14, 2017
  10. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    #40     Dec 14, 2017