On 10/25/07, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - ok. It seems likely that this event is part of a pattern caused by global - warming. Sound better?
Time for a Rush quick hit story:) RUSH: There are fires every year in Southern California. There are mudslides every year, too. We do what we can to thrive, and that means alter our environment. The next thing I looked at: 1936 was the hottest year on record for this country. It is important to note that 1933 was a time when there was no CO2 hysteria. Nobody worried about how much carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, footprints. None of that was happening in 1936; 1936 is a time when it couldn't be argued that man pumped the atmosphere so full of CO2 that he caused the planet to get sick and global warming. There was nothing going on in 1936 like it's going on now. So if you go Google "1936" and "California wildfires," this is what you find. The article, by the way, was written in May 16, 2007. It's a Reuters story. "During Santa Ana conditions, fires can be sparked by lightning or by people through arson, machinery running near dry brush, campfires or carelessly tossed cigarettes. Though California wildfires make worldwide news as the latest natural disaster to befall the state, experts say they have been occurring regularly since before the region was settled by Europeans. 'It's a natural phenomenon, just part of Mother Nature's way of cleaning out the forest,' California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant said. 'Sometimes we hear, "This is the worst fire season ever." But its really an ongoing thing.' "Now, if there was a worst fire season in the last century or so, Berlant said, it would probably be 1936 -- when flames swept across more than 1,250 square miles of California, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island." So all these peopling out there trumping global warming as the cause of this, it's absurd. It's asinine: 1936 was the hottest year on record, and also the worst fire season on record in California. Flames swept across more than 1,250 square miles. So 1936, hottest year on record -- some a little hotter that year, man's ego a lot smaller in 1936. No one was accusing FDR or Hitler of messing around with Mother Nature as happens today. It was a hot year. It was probably no coincidence that California experienced a historic number of fires. The only problem is it wasn't George Bush's fault back then. You couldn't blame SUVs or Algore's private jets or any of the usual suspects or culprits today. In 1936 for this huge fire in California, you cannot blame a single man. You cannot blame a single woman. You cannot blame man, period. You can blame the weather. You can blame the sun. You can blame Brother Nature -- well, Mother Nature. (I look at nature as my brother.) Nevertheless, the inconvenient truth here (ahem) is that the sun warms and cools the planet. It's been hotter in the past; it's going to get cooler in the future. There's nothing we can do about it, not even Algore and his movie. Reuters, May 16th, 2007: the worst California fire season was in 1936. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245218 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
