California's new normal: How the climate crisis is fueling wildfires and changing life in the Golden State
By Ray Sanchez and Brandon Miller, CNN
Here are three more climate scare videos. The first one shows how climate change is not leading to mass starvation.
The next one shows how hurricanes are not increasing in frequency or severity.
Happy Halloween! And find real scares this year, not fake ones the climate alarmists have foisted on your children.
charles the moderator / 17 hours ago
Winds around high pressure systems flow anticyclonically (clockwise) in the Northern Hemisphere, thus when high pressure is situated over the Rockies or Great Basin, the winds blow from the north or northeast towards the Pacific Ocean. If there’s a low pressure area over the Four Corners region, the cyclonic (counterclockwise) flow will aid in reinforcing the north, northeast winds towards the Pacific. As yesterday’s 00z run of the GFS model shows, this is exactly the case currently causing the Santa Ana Winds (Figure 3)
Figure 3. 12z run of the GFS; MSLP Anomaly (hPa) for 00z October 30, 2019. – WeatherBELL.
As per the usual setup, a cold air mass migrated southeast out of Western Canada.
Figure 4. Tuesday October 29, 2019’s 12z GFS 2m Temperature Anomaly map for the CONUS. – WeatherBELL.
By Ray Sanchez and Brandon Miller, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/weather/california-us-wildfires-climate-change/index.html
Just like that drought from several years ago was the new normal.............then, it vanished completely.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his political allies claim climate change is driving California’s increasingly intense and deadly wildfires.
That’s nearly true. Climate change assumptions drive the state’s energy and environmental policies. This has resulted in people being killed in terrible wildfires, electrical blackouts to millions of people causing $5 billion so far in lost economic activity, all while diverting limited resources to a fool’s errand.
For instance, California’s large and heavily regulated public utilities—PG&E, SDG&E, and SCE—prioritize wind and solar power, leaving little for powerline maintenance and upgrades. Simply put, the utilities are doing exactly what the regulators tell them to do. They make money for their investors on wind and solar; they don’t on powerline maintenance.
Examining California’s determined push to decarbonize its economy shows a policy unsupported by logic, and shaky on fact.
First is the matter of leakage. California already has among the highest electrical prices in the nation, its gasoline prices are often the highest, and its regulatory burden, most of which is connected to environmental concerns and related lawsuits, have all acted to push energy-intensive manufacturing out of state.
Something else happened in the early 1990s: environmentalists concerned for the spotted owl prevailed upon the Clinton administration to dramatically curtail the timber harvest in much of the western United States. Logging activity plummeted, and employment in the forest industry in California fell by half.
We see that as the timber harvest plummeted, with a concurrent drop in active forest management practices, the area burned by wildfire grew as the fuel load increased.
With the retreat of the timber industry came an inevitable buildup of uncleared brush as well as runaway tree density, with it becoming common to have four times the number of trees per acre as is considered healthy. During California’s frequent droughts—historical evidence suggests they have been common since way before the industrial revolution—the higher tree density leads to stressed trees that became vulnerable to bark beetle infestations.
Between the drought and the bugs, millions of trees died—trees that had to be left in place because regulators, environmentalists, and politicians couldn’t muster the will to permit harvesting or clearing before they became worthless and deadly matchsticks. In 2012, the Forest Service estimated that 77 million acres, mostly in the West, was at risk due to insects and disease.