KCRA 3 talked to UC Berkeley professor Scott Stephens about what changed.
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He didn't mention climate change even once!
Monday, December 19, 2022
What??? A Berkeley professor actually making sense?
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
California saw a much more quiet fire season in 2022 compared to the previous year. The year-to-date data from Cal Fire shows 362,478 acres burned this year. That's a much lower number than the 2,569,459 acres that burned in 2021.
So why was this year less active?
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This is shaping up to be a battle of scientists like Scott Stephens and Crystal Kolden, U.C. Merced, who believe that catastrophic fires this last decade were caused by a lack of active forest management, vs. people like 'Dr.' Chad Hanson, who will only be happy if not a single twig is removed from public lands so forests can burn in order to provide habitat for his beloved Black-backed Woodpecker, which thrives after a catastrophic fire.
ReplyDeletePeople like Dr. Stephens, Dr. Holdren and other scientists have basically told Chad Hanson "We've been trying it your way since the '80s. It's time for you to get out of the way and let us do what works".
It's like I've been saying for 30+ years; this isn't a climate issue, it's a fuels issue. And like Congressman Tom McClintock has been saying for 20 years, "You can either haul it out or let Mother Nature burn it out".
'Dr.' Chad Hanson prefers it all burn. Dr. Scott Stephens and Dr. Crystal Kolden disagree. They like green forests, not black ones.
What a novel idea, prescribed burns as a means of better forest management.
ReplyDeleteOne factor is that so much of Kali has burned over the preceding few years that there was a lot less left to burn last year. But properly performed controlled burns can do a lot to prevent wildfire. Trick is keeping them controlled.
ReplyDeleteHow many of FedGuv's 20 million acres in California can you burn in a year with 'prescribed fire' to possibly make a real difference? That work has all got to be done by hand, and it ain't gonna happen. It's a Prog feel-good pipe dream.
DeleteThe cleanup has to be done by loggers running machines that spew evil 'Black Carbon', which is a result of burning 'fossil fuels', the resource the brainiacs in Sacramento want to ban.
That was refreshing. --nines
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ReplyDeleteAlso, the Israeli space lasers were recalled by Grumman for defective O-rings.
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