Do You Believe What Dingy Harry Reid Said: "Wild Fires Caused By Global Warming"?

Question

Has this little pathetic excuse for a man overdosed on Al Gore's man made Global Warming Kool Aid?

Answer 1

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to the NFL stadium here, waiting out the calamity and worrying about their homes.
The similarities ended there, as an almost festive atmosphere reigned at Qualcomm Stadium.
Bands belted out rock 'n' roll, lavish buffets served gourmet entrees, and massage therapists helped relieve the stress for those forced to flee their homes because of wildfires.
"The people are happy. They have everything here," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared Monday night after his second Qualcomm tour.
Although anxieties ran high, the misery index seemed low as the celebrity governor waded through the mob. Scarcely a complaint was registered with him.
"Oooh, I got a picture!" shrieked Olivia Beard of Ocean Beach, one of hundreds who pressed toward Schwarzenegger with camera phones snapping.
The fires destroyed some 500 homes and 100 businesses in San Diego County, the greatest swath of destruction in a series of Southern California blazes that began Sunday.
Of the more than 250,000 people forced from their homes, volunteer coordinators estimated that 10,000 took shelter at Qualcomm, home of the San Diego Chargers. Others camped out in hotels, with friends and family and in other shelters scattered throughout the city.
With the stadium housing evacuees, the Chargers were flying to Arizona Tuesday to practice at the Arizona Cardinals' headquarters for the rest of the week. The team is scheduled to host Houston on Sunday, but said it was too early to know how the fires would affect that game.
At Qualcomm, thousands of tents, many set up by relief organizations, provided temporary roofs, while hundreds of people slept on open-air cots. Some elderly evacuees were housed in stadium club boxes.
Aggressive efforts by disaster-response officials to bring supplies helped ensure civility.
The New Orleans evacuees had dragged themselves through floodwaters to get to the Louisiana Superdome in 2005, and once there endured horrific conditions without food, sanitation or law enforcement.
But these evacuees drove to the expansive parking lots in the San Diego suburbs. The worst that most endured in their exodus was heavy traffic and smoky haze.
But like those who fled in New Orleans, some will have lost their homes.
Several said they had narrowly escaped devastating fires in 2003 and shrugged off the inconveniences of sleeping at a stadium.
"You have to deal with it, right?" said Ashwani Kernie, who, along with six family members, had been evacuated from his Rancho Bernardo home.
"You can deal with it, or you can whine about it," he said while erecting a tent in Qualcomm's parking lot, as temperatures hovered comfortably in the low 70s.
Still, there was widespread anxiety about the fates of homes and belongings left behind. Many had packed up hastily as flames approached.
"They're scared, they're sad, they're losing their homes. They just want to relax and go to sleep," Megan Malan, a massage therapist, said as she rubbed the back of a man wearing a firefighter's T-shirt.
She had little in the way of material goods to offer to the victims, so she provided her professional services, for free, to nervous evacuees.
Television sets hung from the rafters for the benefit of football fans, but on this evening, it was anything but "Monday Night Football" that drew their interest.
Hundreds sat in the stands watching the sets, transfixed as news programs broadcast images of destruction. Among them was Bruce Fowler, whose home in the Scripps Ranch neighborhood had survived fires in 2003.
That fall, wildfires killed 22 people, destroyed nearly 3,600 homes and blackened more than 743,000 acres of brush and timber in Southern California, including blazes near Fowler's home.
"Every couple of years, you don't want to go through this worry," Fowler said, sipping a root beer. "I never thought I'd be in a place like this, getting handouts."
Most people seemed happy for the free food and drink. A Hyatt hotel catered one buffet, offering chicken with artichoke hearts and capers in cream sauce, jambalaya and shredded-beef empanadas.
Ester Francis, 90, clutched her cane as her son set up a pair of cots next to a large trash bin.
She does not know what she'll return to when the smoke clears, but said she was grateful for the generosity of strangers. Qualcomm did feel something like a party, she said.
"Everyone's so friendly," Francis said. "I guess it's making us all feel secure at a time when we all feel so insecure."

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure he didn't say "Wild Fires Caused By Global Warming". I think at the very least Harry Reid is capable of forming a complete sentence.

Global warming didn't cause the fire, but it did help create conditions under which the fire could thrive. Researchers warned us of this possibility a year ago.

"November 14, 2006

Fire crews, land managers, ecologists and others need a better understanding of how global warming is making wildfires more frequent, bigger and more destructive, thousands of researchers meeting in San Diego agreed yesterday.

Their statement, issued at the Third International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in San Diego, was part of a grim declaration that called for new approaches to living with wildfires as constant companions.

“We're going to see more fire, not less,” said Robin Wills, president of the meeting's sponsor, the Association for Fire Ecology. “These increases . . . are going to be part of our new reality.”

Answer 3

this same exact question was asked this morning, youre rush limbo show must be on time delay

Actually the Head of the Federal Forest Fire Service said last nite on TV that this is a direct result of global warming. So did the bush appointed head of the National Weather Service

We have never had in recorded history the number and size of fires we are currently (the last 15 years) experiencing.

He said it is due to higher temperatures leading to an earlier spring and early runoff of snowpack thus drying out the brush and trees that would normally be resistant to fires in the past, adding 78 days on average to the "fire season" in the West

pull you're head out of the sand and wake up, Harry Reid is right on with this one.

Answer 4

Keep drinking the Kool-aid all of you, you just do not get it. Summer starts weeks earlier, the snows melt sooner and the drought lasts longer, all because of global warming. Yes we have had fires before but never as large or for as long as they are happening now. I am surprised that you all aren't swallowing the Fox Noise story that its AlQiada that is causing all these fires. Instead of blindly following Rush and Hannity why don't you do some serious reading? Read the August 2007 issue of Scientific American and you will understand how these longer fire seasons are caused by global warming. It was written by scientists, not Republican pundits who talk out of their behinds.

Answer 5

Libs sure love to complain when conservatives use a local weather at a certain time to prove global waming isnt happening (rightfully so) yet a fire starts in one part of the country (where it always happens) and its because of global warming. Other than the Greece fire which was proven to be started by arsonists I dont see wild fires popping up all over the world do you

Answer 6

Southern California has fires every two to three years. It's dry, it's hot, it burns. Period. People who build houses there should realize that there is always fire danger there..just as if you were to build a house on the Gulf of Mexico or on top of the San Andreas fault.
I'm not insinuating that I don't believe global warming exists..however... to politicize something that happens all the time down there is quite frankly, dumb.

Answer 7

Harry was off his medication at the time and has sense rephrased his answer.

Now he claims it was because Dick Cheney has given Haliburton Corporate Welfare, which they spent on California air, to recover Global Warming Carbon offset credits to stop the use of Fans and solar panels to fund their top secret Iraqi oil pipeline that steals their oil and pipes it into Chad, where they can reclaim it for Bush when he is no longer President.

Answer 8

I would have to see the context of the statement to give it it's due diligence, but offhand it wouldn't shock me.

If this is true, the logical question for him would be, "If you are stating that global warming causes wild fires, does this mean there were zero wild fires before the so-called global warming phenonmenon?"

Answer 9

I don't believe anything Harry Reid says at this point. I would be more apt to believe that if wild fires hadn't been happening in California as long as I've been alive.

Answer 10

Yep, I believe. Before President Bush, California never got wild fires. Missouri never got tornadoes. Texas never got hurricanes. New York never got blizzards. Oklahoma never got heat waves. Minnesota never got frost. Oh I believe. I believe.

Answer 11

Nah. I think God is punishing California for having a Republican Governer. Just like God hates the South and smites them regularly with flooding and Hurricanes. God hates hypocrites, and there aren't any bigger hypocrites than theocratic right-wingers.