California's fires are *not* "unprecedented"
Fires did *not* destroy ancient redwood forest
Forests, including redwoods, *need* fire for new life
Fires have declined 80% since
Please stop blaming climate change for everything
forbes.com/sites/michaels…
Fires did *not* destroy ancient redwood forest
Forests, including redwoods, *need* fire for new life
Fires have declined 80% since
Please stop blaming climate change for everything
forbes.com/sites/michaels…
This viral tweet with 7.5k retweets by @dwallacewells claiming that fires have destroyed ancient redwoods is misinformation
David, you should delete it, apologize, and come camping with me in our redwoods so you can learn some basic forest ecology
David, you should delete it, apologize, and come camping with me in our redwoods so you can learn some basic forest ecology
@dwallacewells According to scientists, 4.4M acres/year of Calif. burned before the arrival of Europeans
The annual area burned has declined over 80%
Today, a big fire year means that 1.5M acres burned
That's not necessarily progress
Fire is often good not bad!
Learn your ecology, people!
The annual area burned has declined over 80%
Today, a big fire year means that 1.5M acres burned
That's not necessarily progress
Fire is often good not bad!
Learn your ecology, people!
What's particularly troubling is how @GavinNewsom @KamalaHarris use pseudoscience to push an anti-nuclear agenda that
- made California's electricity prices rise 6x more than the rest of the U.S.
- nearly resulted in black-outs
Me on TV @SkyNewsAust
- made California's electricity prices rise 6x more than the rest of the U.S.
- nearly resulted in black-outs
Me on TV @SkyNewsAust
Every school child who has visited one of our redwood parks knows from reading the signs at the visitor’s center, and in front of the trailheads, that old-growth redwood forests need fire to survive and thrive.
Heat from fire is required for the release and germination of redwood seeds, and to burn up the woody debris on the forest floor. The thick bark on old-growth redwood trees provides evidence of many past fires.
Indeed, video footage taken by @ethanbaron @RandyVMedia , two @mercnews reporters, who hiked into Big Basin after the fire, shows the vast majority of trees still standing.
What was burned up was the visitor’s center and other park infrastructure.
mercurynews.com/2020/08/20/exc…
What was burned up was the visitor’s center and other park infrastructure.
mercurynews.com/2020/08/20/exc…
@ethanbaron @RandyVMedia @mercnews Just look at these photos.
One of the burning logs was clearly cut down already!
Redwood forests not only survive fire, they need it!
The East Coast media elite need to learn their basic forest ecology
California reporters have done a far better job so far
One of the burning logs was clearly cut down already!
Redwood forests not only survive fire, they need it!
The East Coast media elite need to learn their basic forest ecology
California reporters have done a far better job so far
“I see [the current California fires] as a normal event, just not one that happens every year,” Jon Keeley, a leading forest scientist, told me.
“On July 30, 2008, we had massive fires throughout northern California due to a series of lightning fires in the middle of the summer," said Keeley. "It’s not an annual event, but it’s not an unusual event.”
California’s fires should indeed serve as a warning to the public, but not that climate change is causing the apocalypse.
Rather, it should serve as a warning that mainstream journalists and politicians cannot be trusted to tell the truth about climate change and fires.
Rather, it should serve as a warning that mainstream journalists and politicians cannot be trusted to tell the truth about climate change and fires.
Climate activists who in the winter excoriate those, like Senator James Inhofe, for pointing to snow as proof that global warming isn’t happening, turn around and point to summer fires as proof that it is.
“In my [five years] as a Californian,” wrote @leahstokes @TheAtlantic
“I’ve seen a years-long drought. I’ve evacuated my home as a wildfire closed in. I’ve lived through unprecedented heat waves…. that climate is no more.”
“I’ve seen a years-long drought. I’ve evacuated my home as a wildfire closed in. I’ve lived through unprecedented heat waves…. that climate is no more.”
Environmental scholars scoff at this ahistorical view.
“The idea that fire is somehow new,” said geographer @PaulRobbins15 of the University of Wisconsin, “a product solely of climate change, and part of a moral crusade for the soul of the nation, borders on the insane.”
“The idea that fire is somehow new,” said geographer @PaulRobbins15 of the University of Wisconsin, “a product solely of climate change, and part of a moral crusade for the soul of the nation, borders on the insane.”
Hi @JonVigliotti
Your claim @CBSNews that “Now human-caused climate change has damaged or destroyed many of these ancient giants” is simply wrong (see article below)
Will you please correct it?
Thanks!
forbes.com/sites/michaels…
Your claim @CBSNews that “Now human-caused climate change has damaged or destroyed many of these ancient giants” is simply wrong (see article below)
Will you please correct it?
Thanks!
forbes.com/sites/michaels…
"Fire Rages in Big Basin... Park Seems To Be Doomed"
1904 headline from the Santa Cruz Sentinel
The idea that fires destroy redwood forests is as dumb as the idea that the Amazon is "the lungs of the world"
h/t @DustinMulvaney
1904 headline from the Santa Cruz Sentinel
The idea that fires destroy redwood forests is as dumb as the idea that the Amazon is "the lungs of the world"
h/t @DustinMulvaney
"Redwood trees are built to survive fire insulated by bark a foot thick.... burning is a natural cycle in the ecosystem. Native American tribes often set regular fires to shape the landscape & encourage certain plants to grow"
@lesommer @NPR
npr.org/2020/08/23/905…
@lesommer @NPR
npr.org/2020/08/23/905…
Hi @ShawnHubler @Kellen_Browning
Your claim @nytimes that "wildfires... have grown more apocalyptic every year" is inaccurate. There is no data that supports it.
Will you please correct it?
thanks!
Your claim @nytimes that "wildfires... have grown more apocalyptic every year" is inaccurate. There is no data that supports it.
Will you please correct it?
thanks!
@ShawnHubler @Kellen_Browning @nytimes Nor is there a trend over the last 20 years...
Nor is there reason to believe that more acres burned represents is "apocalyptic."
Most scientists support seeing more area burned through prescribed fires.
Nor is there reason to believe that more acres burned represents is "apocalyptic."
Most scientists support seeing more area burned through prescribed fires.
“If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. If all you study is climate change than everything looks like it is caused by climate change."
For example:
For example:
@ethanbaron @RandyVMedia @mercnews Fire is good! Forests need fire!
“The reason those trees are so old is because they are really resilient,” he said. “The forest, in some ways, is resetting."
Good report by @mendozamartha @AP
apnews.com/efa48694b12c74…
“The reason those trees are so old is because they are really resilient,” he said. “The forest, in some ways, is resetting."
Good report by @mendozamartha @AP
apnews.com/efa48694b12c74…
“None of this looks that bad to me... There’s a lot of scorch in there, but most of these trees are fine.”
“Even though they look terrible now, most of the trees will recover. Not in 100 years. But... by this winter...”
@PaulRogersSJMN
mercurynews.com/california-fir…
“Even though they look terrible now, most of the trees will recover. Not in 100 years. But... by this winter...”
@PaulRogersSJMN
mercurynews.com/california-fir…
