The doomsday lies of climate activists never stop

[rangerrebew]

The doomsday lies of climate activists never stop

Exclusive: Vijay Jayaraj dispels Greta Thunberg's claim about recent India flooding, U.S. wildfires
WND Guest Columnist By WND Guest Columnist
Published September 2, 2020 at 7:07pm
 

By Vijay Jayaraj

Photos and videos are extremely useful tools in storytelling and even in conveying news to the masses. Be they simple photographs of people or videos of people marching through a street, they help us relate to the actual events and stories.

In the past decade, climate-change enthusiasts and activists have utilized this aspect to the utmost to highlight natural disasters and propagate the idea that climate change has aggravated them.

But often this grim and devastating image of natural calamities does not reveal the complete picture. In fact, climate activists exaggerate weather events (short-term and local) as climate events (long-term and global to regional) and misrepresent regular incidents as unprecedented ones.

https://www.wnd.com/2020/09/doomsday-lies-climate-activists-never-stop/

[mountaineer]

Mr. M and some pals have been emailing about the wildfires. A friend in Eugene, Oregon, sent him this story from the Portland Oregonian:

Oregon’s historic wildfires: unusual but not unprecedented
Updated Sep 13, 2:07 PM; Posted Sep 12, 9:00 AM
Link to story

Mr. M forwarded it to another friend who has a Ph.D. in forest ecology and a minor in bioclimatology with decades of experience with the forest service in Oregon, Washington, and California. The forester's response is:

I agree with much of this news article.  Of course, the losses in structures and human lives are greater now than in the past—more building in and encroaching upon the forest and more people than in the past.  We have interrupted the natural fire cycles, for example 100-200 years in the west side Douglas-fir forests, allowing for unnatural accumulations of fuel. At the same time, we have largely abandoned active management of these forests and their fuel loads, at least on public lands which make up a large percentage of the Oregon forests.  I’m not an advocate of man-caused global warming—we have been in a sustained period of cooling and not too many years ago the cry was that we were all going to freeze to death.  Of course, the climate changes over time.  Some will say that we are still in the final period of warming following the last ice ages, and there seems to be a 400 +/- cycle of warming and cooling in the long term climate trend.  The forests of the western U.S. are all fire-adapted and subject to fires, the difference being in the return frequency.  For example, as noted 100-200 years in west side Douglas-fir and 20-25 years or so in the Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests.  May be much shorter in the Southern California chaparral.  With greater fuel loads resulting for the removal of natural fires, or man’s conscious manipulation of the fuel load, you can expect more destructive and larger fires, regardless of climate change.  And of course, add in the incidental or purposeful ignition of man- caused fires, and you have a prescription for disaster.

From experience,  I can tell you that once the fires go away, the attention will turn to other pressing issues, often social, and nothing will be done to solve the problem.  We all, especially politicians, respond to the immediate and rarely take the “long view.”  There is usually only a short period following any disaster to take significant action.  With the passing of time, the urgency goes away.

It's always helpful to hear from people who really know what they're talking about.