Saturday, October 26, 2019

California Is Burning and It's Not Because of 'Climate Change'

Liberals are blaming California's wildfires on "Climate change." Apparently, climate change now causes wildfires, but only in the state of California.

Now, they believe it will go up in flames unless we do something immediately to stop "Climate change." But climate change hasn't turned California into a tinderbox, the environmentalists have.

As Chuck Devore writes in Forbes, "The outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a consequence of California's Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork." It's not climate change that's responsible for these massive fires, "It's decades of environmental mismanagement that has created a tinderbox of unharvested timber, dead trees, and thick underbrush."

As Devore writes, "Forest management is so bad on public lands that a new report, ordered by the California legislature in 2010, shows that the portion of California's National Forests protected from timber harvesting is now a net contributor to atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fires and trees killed by insects and disease." So if environmentalists really believed climate change was causing the fires, they would be calling for more timber harvesting to stop it.

How many people have to die before environmentalists wake up? Gov. Gavin Newsom has attributed California's wildfires to the effects of "Climate change." But in 2018, President Trump correctly identified the problem and threatened to cut off federal funds if California didn't change its self-harming policies.

Trump tweeted, "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!".

There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/10/25/california-burning-n2555379

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