There is so much wrong with this popular notion that wildfires are caused/worsened by using fossil fuels and that they are destined to get worse unless we abandon using them.
▪️First, wildfires aren’t becoming worse or more numerous, either in Canada or globally. I’ll post a few charts in the comments showing this. However, more people and property are near wildfires today, and we see it more with social media.
▪️Most people are ignorant of the history of wildfires, as they are with all history. Wildfires were always horrific and burned unchecked prior to industrialization, frequently wiping out entire towns and killing thousands at a time.
▪️Here’s a brief history of Canadian fires in the 1800s and early 1900s. In 1825, the Great Miramichi fire destroyed 1/5 of New Brunswick in 2 days, burning 3M acres! Many other fires wreaked havoc, Ottawa would have burned to the ground if not for opening a dam and flooding the streets.
https://theconversation.com/despite-its-long-history-of-wildfires-canada-still-doesnt-know-how-to-live-with-them-190213
▪️The history of US wildfires is similar, this essay recounts in the 1800s “Fire was nearly everywhere, some places more vigorously than others. The amount of burning was, by today's standards, staggering.”
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntuseland/essays/fire.htm
▪️Prior to European settlers, it’s estimated over 4M acres burned annually in CA, far more than even the worst years today. In the 17-1800s there were many accounts of smoke drifting East with apocalyptic sights, people sometimes thought judgement day was upon them.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/09/10/why-environmental-alarmism-makes-forest-fires-worse/?sh=2aadad813712
▪️This recent Twitter post shows a photo of a baseball game at Fenway Park in 1950 that had to turn on their lights for an afternoon game because of thick smoke from a Canadian wildfire.
https://twitter.com/otbaseballphoto/status/1666577623856697344?s=61&t=wYS_HEkyKg4NfAC06jGdAg
▪️Today, most wildfires are caused by humans, not “climate.” Studies show that 84% of wildfires in the US are human ignited, and 97% of all those that threaten homes.
https://www.science.org/content/article/human-sparked-wildfires-are-more-destructive-those-caused-nature
▪️Of all the threats climate change poses, wildfires are one of the easiest to solve. For centuries, even primitive societies had ways to manage forests to control burns. With modern machinery and knowledge (powered by fossil fuels) we are more capable than ever to mitigate fire risk.
▪️However, this involves impacting nature, which environmentalists vigorously oppose. Which is why many areas in CA and Canada aren’t managed properly and are ripe for destructive fires, as they’ve let too much fuel build up.
▪️Thus, when fires inevitably happen, they blame climate change and fossil fuels, do nothing to actually prevent and manage future fires, but pretend that building more windmills and electric cars are the solution. It really is madness.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
