Resorting to "Manmade climate change" has become the favorite, most politically expedient tactic for deflecting attention away from the abject, ideological, even criminally incompetent forest management practices demanded by politicians, regulators, judges and environmentalists in recent decades.
The hard, incontrovertible reality is that California is and always has been a largely arid state, afflicted on repeated occasions by prolonged droughts, interspersed with periods of intense rainfall, and buffeted almost every autumn by strong, unrelenting Santa Ana winds that can whip forest fires into infernos.
In 2015, Obama-appointed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson rejected concerns that new, highly restrictive Obama-era forest plans would further harm local economies and increase the risk of forest fires.
They've contested recent initiatives by the Interior Department and Forest Service to revise and reverse policies that invite deadly infernos in the 56 percent of California forests that are under direct federal control.
In stark contrast to these areas, privately and tribally managed forests outside the once-Golden State are actively managed to prevent major fires like those that have devastated vast national forest areas in California and other Western states.
As to climate change, what actual evidence can alarmists provide to show that today's climate and weather conditions are predominantly due to fossil fuel use - or would be significantly different if the state or USA went 100 percent renewable, especially when the developing world continues to increase its coal, oil and gas use to lift billions out of poverty? Can they prove energy and climate edicts would enable the state to control the timing, frequency and severity of future climate fluctuations, rains, droughts, winds, and other weather events? Will Governor-elect Gavin Newsom seek common ground on forest issues?
We clearly need less hidebound ideology, greater compassion and respect for human and animal life - and greater willingness to find bipartisan ways to deal with the perpetually arid conditions in California and throughout the West, via responsible and scientific management of our forest heritage.
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/11/17/assigning-blame--ignoring-incompetence-n2536103
The hard, incontrovertible reality is that California is and always has been a largely arid state, afflicted on repeated occasions by prolonged droughts, interspersed with periods of intense rainfall, and buffeted almost every autumn by strong, unrelenting Santa Ana winds that can whip forest fires into infernos.
In 2015, Obama-appointed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson rejected concerns that new, highly restrictive Obama-era forest plans would further harm local economies and increase the risk of forest fires.
They've contested recent initiatives by the Interior Department and Forest Service to revise and reverse policies that invite deadly infernos in the 56 percent of California forests that are under direct federal control.
In stark contrast to these areas, privately and tribally managed forests outside the once-Golden State are actively managed to prevent major fires like those that have devastated vast national forest areas in California and other Western states.
As to climate change, what actual evidence can alarmists provide to show that today's climate and weather conditions are predominantly due to fossil fuel use - or would be significantly different if the state or USA went 100 percent renewable, especially when the developing world continues to increase its coal, oil and gas use to lift billions out of poverty? Can they prove energy and climate edicts would enable the state to control the timing, frequency and severity of future climate fluctuations, rains, droughts, winds, and other weather events? Will Governor-elect Gavin Newsom seek common ground on forest issues?
We clearly need less hidebound ideology, greater compassion and respect for human and animal life - and greater willingness to find bipartisan ways to deal with the perpetually arid conditions in California and throughout the West, via responsible and scientific management of our forest heritage.
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/11/17/assigning-blame--ignoring-incompetence-n2536103
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