Updating the cost of climate change

[HuffyCane]

“Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The winds shows us how close to the edge we are.” Joan Didion, 1968, decades before “climate change” and smack dab in the middle of the era where scientists were telling me we were 20 years from another Ice Age.

 

[aTUfan]

The earth is not a perfect circle or orb, and our orbit around the sun isn't exactly the same every year.

Thus we don't line up with the sun exactly the same from year to year, so it's more like Climate Shift.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

You are so much like a scientist.

 

[astonmartin708]

The earth is not a perfect circle or orb, and our orbit around the sun isn't exactly the same every year.

Thus we don't line up with the sun exactly the same from year to year, so it's more like Climate Shift.

 

[astonmartin708]

you can't stop hurricanes, but you can plan for them.

LA can't eliminate Fires but they could plan for them: brush clean out, hydrants that work, adequate trained fire fighters, enough equipment, communication, . . .

Have you ever been to California? They have those things.

 

[aTUfan]

Have you ever been to California? They have those things.

maybe they needed more.

 

[watu05]

Of the approximately 33 million acres of forest in California, federal agencies (including the USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service) own and manage 19 million acres (57%). The state of California owns 7%. The rest is in private hands. The federally owned Angeles National Forest neighbors Altadena, where the Eaton wildfire is burning. The Pacific Palisades blaze includes state and national parkland.

 

[HuffyCane]

Of the approximately 33 million acres of forest in California, federal agencies (including the USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service) own and manage 19 million acres (57%). The state of California owns 7%. The rest is in private hands. The federally owned Angeles National Forest neighbors Altadena, where the Eaton wildfire is burning. The Pacific Palisades blaze includes state and national parkland.

So it’s Biden’s fault?

 

[Gmoney4WW]

So it’s Biden’s fault?

The budget for the US Forestry dept has been going down since the '90s. That's congress to blame.

Article from Oct 2024, US Forest Service Decision to Halt Prescribed Burns, article blames budgets primarily.

 

[aTUfan]

So it’s Biden’s fault?

"the buck stops here"