Governor Newsom, the smartest guy ever on any subject, was in the area last week shrouded in smoke and proclaiming climate change as the instigator for his state ablaze again. Give him credit for sticking with a narrative. He bristled at suggestions that nonsensical liberal forest management led to yet another inferno.
A U.S. Forest Service tree analysis indicated 6.3 billion standing dead trees in the Western United States. Those dead and diseased tree are the result of the environmentalists winning the battle to ‘re-wild’ our forests -- no logging, no underbrush removal, abandon the logging roads and fire breaks, all to return to the ‘garden’ before humans arrived.
The anti-God environmental extremists don’t believe Genesis 2:15, “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.”
President Reagan told the story of a man who took over some land, rough soil littered with rocks. He worked hard to clean and prepare it for his garden. One day he asked his minister to stop by after church to see his bountiful harvest.
As the man showed the pastor the large melons, cucumbers, tomatoes and tall corn, the pastor would say “My, how the Lord has blessed this land. What the Lord and you have accomplished here is amazing!” After several minutes of the minister repeatedly acknowledging the Lord, the farmer said “Well pastor, I wish you could have seen this when the Lord was doing it by himself.”
If you are in the Western States the cremation remains of billions of trees and natural habitat, from bugs to bears along with the poisonous gases from torched buildings, vehicles and chemicals have been snowing down for weeks. Are the liberals happy with going natural yet? Oh. That’s right, Governor Pointy Head says it due to ‘climate change.’
US Senator from Montana Steve Daines says, “The bottom line: either we manage the forests, or the forests are going to manage us.”
Liberals talk incessantly about Green House Gases (GHG). When considering GHG California policy makers do not include forest fires as a factor. No, really, it’s true.
However research for an article titled “Pollution: It’s Spreading Like Wildfire” noted that a single Alaskan wildfire emitted more carbon monoxide (CO) pollution than all human caused pollution from “tailpipes and smokestacks in the United States” during the same period. To the state, bad forest management does not equal a human cause of GHG. Maybe it was an ‘act of God’ even though they tend to be atheists.
“That single (Alaskan) fire emitted 6,600 times more CO during the 3 months it burned than all the pollution ExxonMobil, one of the top five corporate polluters, emitted during an entire year” according to researcher and author Zachary Gerber.
Gerber says the worst wildfire year on record in California was 2017 as 1,266,224 acres burned. According to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) those fires emitted more than 1 billion pounds of PM 2.5. PM 2.5 are particles 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller that have a damaging effect on health.
In comparison, the EPA estimates that California drivers in 2017 created 22 million pounds of PM 2.5 or just 2% of the fires’ output during the same time period. And the state doesn’t want to look at the impact of criminal forest management? Gerber estimates that it would take 50-years of California driving emissions to equal one of its wildfire emission events.
Do the environmental-fascist groups really care about creatures? The answer is no. Many biologists, land managers, ranchers and others believe wildfires are the greatest threat to species. The Arizona Bear Wallow Fire in 2011 is estimated to have killed at least 1.5 million vertebrate animals. Using the same survey methods 3.5 million animals perished in the fires of California in 2017.
The article didn’t count the human lives lost because to liberals there are 6.5 billion too many of those already.
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