OK, here's another beauty:
A new study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, implicates rising seasonal temperatures and the earlier arrival of spring conditions in connection with a dramatic increase of large wildfires in the western United States. In the most systematic analysis to date of recent changes in forest fire activity, Anthony Westerling, Hugo Hidalgo and Dan Cayan of Scripps Oceanography, along with Tom Swetnam of the University of Arizona, compiled a database of recent large western wildfires since 1970 and compared it with climate and land-surface data from the region. The results show that large wildfire activity increased "suddenly and dramatically" in the 1980s with longer wildfire seasons and an increased number and more potent wildfires. The new findings, published in the July 6 issue of Science Express (the advance online version of the printed journal Science), point to climate change, not fire suppression policies and forest accumulation, as the primary driver of recent increases in large forest fires.
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Rubbish! And I suppose if I burp three times, that too is a by product of the so called mythological Al Gore GLOBAL WARMING. To explain just how BOGUS this manic news is, let me analyse.
First: the article states that "Oceanographers" did this study of the climate and forest. Might as well use metallurgists or geologists. Close enough right? Wrong.
Second: Spring comes a bit earlier so that means fires? Give me a break. All it means more stupid people tossing out cigarettes, not putting out campfires, being careless, or setting fires on purpose (recall some terrorists thought this was a good idea), or even a biut more lightning earlier on. Not ONE iota of a LINK to the so called Global Warming. Third: The study only goes back to the 70's. 1970's... talk about a thin slice of a study meaning absolutely NOTHING. And these guys DARE call themselves scientists? Add some more factors: more people since the 70's, more cars since the 70's, more idiots since the 70's. Duh... And never mind that forestry companies are not allowed to cut like they did prior to the 70's. All the conditions for increased fires.
But of course... that could NEVER BE. It just HAS TO BE global warming, right? Idiots.
