Brian Williams: "..but this has been the driest season on record.."

"on record?" 

Now, just why is it that [historic] records count when the media finds them to their liking, but not when they don't. This is nothing here, this modern set of records for the past 100 some odd years. Last year the LA Times in a shrill piece noting the same bleak future, somehow slipped in a bit of perspective at the tail end of a front page story on our current drought:

..western mega-droughts that occurred between 900 AD and 1300 AD took place during a warming period that drove up temperatures in the western Pacific, producing an upwelling of cool waters in the eastern Pacific that caused drier La Niña conditions to prevail.

You just have to love it; warming periods cause cool waters that caused drought. And there, they are discussing a mega drought, right here in Southern CA that went on for 400 years, or, right up to the beginning of the Little Ice Age, which we're still coming out of.  A 400 year long drought. Now that's dry - and that is a tad bit longer than 5 or ten years - it just keeps on giving. But rest assured. Man is causing this one - now. Not that one - then.

However, all of these silly drought and fire studies, which we keep hearing about, look mostly at this last mini cycle - that one since about 1970. You know, since the cool point in the mini cycle. 1970 was the bottom (cool point) between the last mini cooling period (from about 1935 to 1970, and the last mini warming period (from 1970 to about present). We see the same charts for the Arctic ice cover, the hurricane frequency and intensity charts, the drought and fire charts and the increasing number of women entering menopause - since 1970.

And one more thing out here in the west - one of them there factors. Factors they don't put in these multi-million $ federally funded grant based studies; massive population increase, population (whata we got - 75 million more people in the West) creep into previously undeveloped areas (wooded areas - forested areas), off-road vehicles, catalytic converters (start many fires when people pull their cars onto dry grass), millions more people driving and throwing cigarettes out the windows (now since they don't want the smoke in their cars), and the biggie.

Ya ready for the big increase cause in fires in the last 30 years? Arson.

ARSON. But then again, these arson folks are probably all pissed off because of Bush or Reagan, or the bad economy, or the war, and since he's helping global warming - see, it's still Bush's fault and if he comes out here then all holly cow will break out, unless he does not, cause he does not care. 

Right Brian Wilson - you're a national news anchor - that probably all makes good sense to a mind like yours - right?

Apparently Harry Reid believes it too.

“One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday,
stressing the need to pass the Democrats’ comprehensive energy package.

Anybody want to bet what the inevitable winter mud slides will be blamed on?

I apologize for the name of the BBC American "expert", but I think it was Clapp last night telling the
viewers that global warming was the cause of the satanic fires (That is what the name means in Spanish as they are hot and been burning California for hundreds of years at least.)........that these fires were the worst, because this shill for money had lived their most of his life.

Now that is scientific evidence if I ever heard it. 45 years on a 6,000 year scale from a Mr. Clapp if you asked him how much rain fell 3 years ago he couldn't tell you withing 5 inches.

For the record, RAIN CAUSED THE MALIBU FIRES. I will repeat that rain caused the Malibu fires, because rain grows all that desert brush and grass which by nature ALWAYS dries out and as it has no purpose but in choking out wildlife and other plants .....nature burns the garbage off.

Now if Arnold was more busy in burning brush in California instead of destroying the terms Mom and Dad being taught children none of this would have happened.
See Indians always burnt the country for the simple reason burnt ground greened up earlier in the spring and in the winter and fall IT CONCENTRATED GAME so hunting was easier.

If the twits of California would burn things off, if the twits in California would quit building houses in fire traps none of this would happen as it does indeed rain in California and nature burns off the brush when it dries.

Global Warming scams have nothing to do with it.

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Just saw this little tidbit.

This is one of the Greens who fought to prevent any cleaning of the forest regardless of all the warnings.

 

The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don’t suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them.

—Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

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"The weather we've seen this fall may or may not be due to the global warming trend, but it's certainly a clear picture of what the future is going to look like if we don't act quickly to cut emissions of the greenhouse gases."

If it "may or may not" be from AGW, then how can we KNOW the future "IS going to look like" this if the mean old GG's aren't reined in? Should be "may look like," right? But these people are "certain," even when they toss in the falsely "balanced" phrase, "may or may not."

Idiots who think the rest of us are BIGGER idiots!

I've heard that some of the fires were deliberately set...by enviro-nuts.

Besides, the Santa Ana winds which have been essentially the same for a couple thousand years at least are responsible for the dry conditions...

...oh, sorry, I forgot...facts aren't allowed....

I'm no global warming expert... but I thought they said it was CO2 causing it? You know, the stuff they put in fire extinguishers?

They're asking us to believe that an increase in what makes fires go out is what's causing fires?