If the Blue State of CA Abuses the Envrinoment By Building Where Nature Wants Forest Fires, Would You Trust ..

Question

... libs to do a good job with what they call "global warming"?

Answer 1

I wouldn't trust them to do anything pertaining to nature.
Mother Nature or Gods natural laws or what ever you chose to call the Yeng And the Yang is a cold hard B****.
If you mess with her she will stomp you flat, she might wait a hundred or even 2 hundred or what ever then when our arrogant little butts are sitting around sipping Mi Tais and BAM the Tsunami takes out a quarter million people that built on the beach. Then the ones that are left start talking about who'd a thunk it.
Environmentalists try to protect the earth by not touching anything in nature areas so the brush and dead falls build up for years then one day somebody lets a campfire get loose or lightening strikes or some fruit loop sets the place on fire and then just look at California at the end of OCT. 2008.

Mother nature cleans things up all the time.
Little fires now and then a flood here or something goes extinct over there.

Answer 2

It is not perhaps so much that the state abuses the environment but rather that some people have nothing better to do than to light those forest fires. When it comes to global warming, we should listen to scientists with all the different points of view and decide for ourselves rather than believe an article in a magazine, a liberal who gives his point of view, or a man on the street who reads into what he reads and hears what he wants to believe regardless of what evidence may show.

Answer 3

Despite the proactive and immediate response by the local officials, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to eat up resources and thus limit disaster response efforts. "Right now, we are down 50 percent in terms of our National Guard equipment because they're all in Iraq, the equipment, half of the equipment," Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said. "What we really need are those firefighters, we need the equipment, we need, frankly, we need those troops back from Iraq," said Lt. Gov. John Garamendi (D). California was forced to pull 200 guard members from the Mexico border and deploy state prison inmates to fight the fires. This is not the first time that the war in Iraq has diverted resources from natural disasters at home. Last May, when tornadoes slammed into Kansas, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) said that National Guard's response was made "much slower" because so much of its force was deployed to Iraq. "I have said for nearly two years, and will continue to say, that we have a looming crisis on our hands when it comes to National Guard equipment in Iraq and our needs here at home," she said. A January report by the Government Accountability Office reported that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq drained stateside resources for the National Guard, possibly hampering its ability to react effectively to a natural disaster.

The right wing spent this week looking for people to blame for the forest fires. Fox News pointed the finger at al Qaeda terrorists. CNN's right-wing pundit Glenn Beck said the fires were hitting some "people who hate America" and later blamed the fires on the "damn environmentalists" and their "bad environmental policies." Michelle Malkin, a leading conservative blogger, echoed the complaint, pointing to "litigious environmentalists" for "standing in the way" of Bush's Healthy Forests Initiative. In fact, environmentalists don't oppose removing brush and trees that serve as tinder in wildfires, but the so-called Healthy Forest Initiative was more concerned with giving logging companies free reign over forests than enacting sensible forest-fire prevention. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute, derided the supposition that global warming has played a role in the wildfires, mocking it as something "alarmists are talking about." But as Center for American Progress's Daniel J. Weiss points out, "massive, destructive wildfires could occur even more frequently and with greater ferocity due to global warming. Earlier this year, the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that 'a warming climate encourages wildfires through a long summer period that dries fuels, promoting easier ignition and faster spread.'"

Answer 4

The larger issue is that left wing environmental policies have kept us from thinning the forests and removing the dead brush/wood and underbrush. Fire officials continually talk about this but the left never listens. Sorry for anyone who is offended but stupid policies that cause this sort of damage need to be cast aside in favor of solid forest management programs.