This article stands on its own... funny how the truth does eek out after a while.
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Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."
Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.
For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)
Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Schwarzenegger believes his SUV's are ruining the Earth
Here is the story of a weight lifter that has made enough action movies to allow him to buy the governors office in California. What a saga. He then wishes to be the "Global Warming" ambassador... obviously subscribing to the 'global warming' myth in order to win votes. Only in California.. eh? So, I'm guessing then that he thinks we can regulate the sun perhaps? Regardless, this is a tactic that is entirely self-absorbed and self-centered. Win the election at any cost! Go Team Go!
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Schwarzenegger has made global warming his signature environmental issue and is eager to sign a climate measure before he faces the state's Democratic-leaning electorate in November. It also would be another way for him to set himself apart from President Bush, who has opposed regulating global warming gases and is deeply unpopular in California. "He hopes to have a bill on his desk this year that he can sign," spokesman Darrel Ng said, "but he wants to make sure it can be in a way that protects the economy and the environment." At the same time, the Republican governor must tread carefully in the face of criticism from his own party for even considering signing legislation that businesses oppose. "This noble goal of reducing greenhouse emissions and making energy use more efficient could backfire," said Dorothy Rothrock, a spokeswoman for the California Manufacturers and Technology Association. "It could hurt the economy and drive emissions outside California, thereby not improving the situation." Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial opponent, Democratic state Treasurer Phil Angelides, said Wednesday that the changes Schwarzenegger has requested would create only a voluntary plan. "He's trying to gut this bill so he can claim an election-year victory, and the people of California and the environment will be left holding the bag for yet another broken promise," Angelides said.
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Schwarzenegger has made global warming his signature environmental issue and is eager to sign a climate measure before he faces the state's Democratic-leaning electorate in November. It also would be another way for him to set himself apart from President Bush, who has opposed regulating global warming gases and is deeply unpopular in California. "He hopes to have a bill on his desk this year that he can sign," spokesman Darrel Ng said, "but he wants to make sure it can be in a way that protects the economy and the environment." At the same time, the Republican governor must tread carefully in the face of criticism from his own party for even considering signing legislation that businesses oppose. "This noble goal of reducing greenhouse emissions and making energy use more efficient could backfire," said Dorothy Rothrock, a spokeswoman for the California Manufacturers and Technology Association. "It could hurt the economy and drive emissions outside California, thereby not improving the situation." Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial opponent, Democratic state Treasurer Phil Angelides, said Wednesday that the changes Schwarzenegger has requested would create only a voluntary plan. "He's trying to gut this bill so he can claim an election-year victory, and the people of California and the environment will be left holding the bag for yet another broken promise," Angelides said.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
China to build world's first "artificial sun" experimental device
China to go online with FUSION power this fall. So... where is the U.S. with their fusion reactor to provide cheap, clean, and limitless power? Oh yes, I forgot, how silly of me. Why, that would cut into the oil industry's HUGE profits.
The story...
A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province.
Experiments with the advanced new device will start in July or August. If the experiments prove successful, China will become the first country in the world to build a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, nicknamed "artificial sun", experts here said.
The project, dubbed EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak), is being undertaken by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world.
The new device will be an upgrade of China's first superconducting Tokamak device, dubbed HT-7, which was also built by the plasma physics institute, in partnership with Russia, in the early 1990s. HT-7 made China the fourth country in the world, after Russia, France and Japan, to have such a device.
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The story...
A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province.
Experiments with the advanced new device will start in July or August. If the experiments prove successful, China will become the first country in the world to build a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, nicknamed "artificial sun", experts here said.
The project, dubbed EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak), is being undertaken by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world.
The new device will be an upgrade of China's first superconducting Tokamak device, dubbed HT-7, which was also built by the plasma physics institute, in partnership with Russia, in the early 1990s. HT-7 made China the fourth country in the world, after Russia, France and Japan, to have such a device.
CLICK HERE for the FULL STORY
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Rapid and Abrupt Climate Change
Here is a true story of what happens when Egypt refuses to sign the Kyoto Treaty - Rapid Climate Change!
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At the end of the last Ice Age, the Sahara Desert was just as dry and uninviting as it is today. But sandwiched between two periods of extreme dryness were a few millennia of plentiful rainfall and lush vegetation. During these few thousand years, prehistoric humans left the congested Nile Valley and established settlements around rain pools, green valleys, and rivers. The ancient climate shift and its effects are detailed in the July 21 issue of the journal Science.
Some 12,000 years ago, the only place to live along the eastern Sahara Desert was the Nile Valley. Being so crowded, prime real estate in the Nile Valley was difficult to come by. Disputes over land were often settled with the fist, as evidenced by the cemetery of Jebel Sahaba where many of the buried individuals had died a violent death. But around 10,500 years ago, a sudden burst of monsoon rains over the vast desert transformed the region into habitable land. This opened the door for humans to move into the area, as evidenced by the researcher's 500 new radiocarbon dates of human and animal remains from more than 150 excavation sites.
"The climate change at [10,500 years ago] which turned most of the [3.8 million square mile] large Sahara into a savannah-type environment happened within a few hundred years only, certainly within less than 500 years," said study team member Stefan Kroepelin of the University of Cologne in Germany. In the Egyptian Sahara, semi-arid conditions allowed for grasses and shrubs to grow, with some trees sprouting in valleys and near groundwater sources. The vegetation and small, episodic rain pools enticed animals well adapted to dry conditions, such as giraffes, to enter the area as well.
Humans also frolicked in the rain pools, as depicted in rock art from Southwest Egypt. In the more southern Sudanese Sahara, lush vegetation, hearty trees, and permanent freshwater lakes persisted over millennia. There were even large rivers, such as the Wadi Howar, once the largest tributary to the Nile from the Sahara. "Wildlife included very demanding species such as elephants, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, and more than 30 species of fish up to 2 meters (6 feet) big," Kroepelin told LiveScience.
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At the end of the last Ice Age, the Sahara Desert was just as dry and uninviting as it is today. But sandwiched between two periods of extreme dryness were a few millennia of plentiful rainfall and lush vegetation. During these few thousand years, prehistoric humans left the congested Nile Valley and established settlements around rain pools, green valleys, and rivers. The ancient climate shift and its effects are detailed in the July 21 issue of the journal Science.
Some 12,000 years ago, the only place to live along the eastern Sahara Desert was the Nile Valley. Being so crowded, prime real estate in the Nile Valley was difficult to come by. Disputes over land were often settled with the fist, as evidenced by the cemetery of Jebel Sahaba where many of the buried individuals had died a violent death. But around 10,500 years ago, a sudden burst of monsoon rains over the vast desert transformed the region into habitable land. This opened the door for humans to move into the area, as evidenced by the researcher's 500 new radiocarbon dates of human and animal remains from more than 150 excavation sites.
"The climate change at [10,500 years ago] which turned most of the [3.8 million square mile] large Sahara into a savannah-type environment happened within a few hundred years only, certainly within less than 500 years," said study team member Stefan Kroepelin of the University of Cologne in Germany. In the Egyptian Sahara, semi-arid conditions allowed for grasses and shrubs to grow, with some trees sprouting in valleys and near groundwater sources. The vegetation and small, episodic rain pools enticed animals well adapted to dry conditions, such as giraffes, to enter the area as well.
Humans also frolicked in the rain pools, as depicted in rock art from Southwest Egypt. In the more southern Sudanese Sahara, lush vegetation, hearty trees, and permanent freshwater lakes persisted over millennia. There were even large rivers, such as the Wadi Howar, once the largest tributary to the Nile from the Sahara. "Wildlife included very demanding species such as elephants, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, and more than 30 species of fish up to 2 meters (6 feet) big," Kroepelin told LiveScience.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Britain Sizzles
Temperatures across Britain are set to beat holiday resorts such as Ibiza and the Canary Islands today as the glorious weather continues across England and Wales.
Unbroken sunshine and temperatures up to 33 degrees Celsius (91F) have been recorded in west London and an unbearable 47C (117F) on the capital's transport networks. Only western Scotland IS experiencing some cloud and patchy rain and drizzle.
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Excuse me... but I do NOT call 91 degrees BAKING orSOARING. It's SUMMER TIME dolts! It's JULY! It is supposed to be WARMER THAN THE SPRING, FALL, and WINTER [this is me yelling here becuase this is such insanity]. I used to live in Great Britian... on the North Sea Coast for a number of years. Hey guess what.. IT GOT HOT in the SUMMER every now and then. We never called it BAKING or SOARING or SIZZLING, we called it SUMMER. And what is even stranger... the article goes on to call it "glorious weather". Dolts - looks like your true sentiments slipped out under the weight of your eco-political views.
Unbroken sunshine and temperatures up to 33 degrees Celsius (91F) have been recorded in west London and an unbearable 47C (117F) on the capital's transport networks. Only western Scotland IS experiencing some cloud and patchy rain and drizzle.
Read this sensationalistic story by clicking here
Excuse me... but I do NOT call 91 degrees BAKING orSOARING. It's SUMMER TIME dolts! It's JULY! It is supposed to be WARMER THAN THE SPRING, FALL, and WINTER [this is me yelling here becuase this is such insanity]. I used to live in Great Britian... on the North Sea Coast for a number of years. Hey guess what.. IT GOT HOT in the SUMMER every now and then. We never called it BAKING or SOARING or SIZZLING, we called it SUMMER. And what is even stranger... the article goes on to call it "glorious weather". Dolts - looks like your true sentiments slipped out under the weight of your eco-political views.
The Patients Are Running the Asylum
Here's another beauty... Oh pleeezzz don't hurt the chickens. Just what does Claudia Barnes eat? I'll bet it's something that has been killed... oh how awful!! OK folks, read this news article and be very afraid of the lunacy run amok amongst us.
COMMERCE CITY - Some residents are up in arms over what a new grocery store plans to do with its poultry. California-based Liborio Markets, a Latino-based grocery store, is branching out to Colorado. Eight stores in all are planned for the state, the first one to be called Rancho Liborio in Commerce City.
The store, scheduled to open July 30, is talking with the U.S. Department of Health and the Tri-County Health Department, seeking approval to bring in live chickens that will be killed at the store. "We are proposing to have live poultry processed here at the store," said owner, Anthony Trujillo. "It's just live poultry that's processed in the back that has no access to the store."
Trujillo says about 150 chickens a day would be brought to the store in climate-controlled trucks, where they're then unloaded into a climate-controlled room in the back. Every morning, the chickens are given a fatal electric shock, de-feathered, cleaned, cut, and put on the shelves. Trujillo says no live chickens remain in the back for more than five hours. "There is no butchering or slaughtering whatsoever," said Trujillo. "It's a sophisticated state-of-the-art technology."
However, nearby residents, like Claudia Barnes, don't like the idea at all. "We're just appalled," she said. "If they want to do this in the privacy of their home, I don't care. But we're just opening up a keg of worms if this happens."
Source: Link Here to read the story
COMMERCE CITY - Some residents are up in arms over what a new grocery store plans to do with its poultry. California-based Liborio Markets, a Latino-based grocery store, is branching out to Colorado. Eight stores in all are planned for the state, the first one to be called Rancho Liborio in Commerce City.
The store, scheduled to open July 30, is talking with the U.S. Department of Health and the Tri-County Health Department, seeking approval to bring in live chickens that will be killed at the store. "We are proposing to have live poultry processed here at the store," said owner, Anthony Trujillo. "It's just live poultry that's processed in the back that has no access to the store."
Trujillo says about 150 chickens a day would be brought to the store in climate-controlled trucks, where they're then unloaded into a climate-controlled room in the back. Every morning, the chickens are given a fatal electric shock, de-feathered, cleaned, cut, and put on the shelves. Trujillo says no live chickens remain in the back for more than five hours. "There is no butchering or slaughtering whatsoever," said Trujillo. "It's a sophisticated state-of-the-art technology."
However, nearby residents, like Claudia Barnes, don't like the idea at all. "We're just appalled," she said. "If they want to do this in the privacy of their home, I don't care. But we're just opening up a keg of worms if this happens."
Source: Link Here to read the story
Monday, July 17, 2006
Rocks are Alive
Here's another gem from (of all places) Pravda. You recall that 'scary' newspaper from the 'evil empire' of the Soviet Union don't you? Look what kind of articles they're running (the link to the whole article):
French geologists Arnold Rheshar and Pierre Escollet have long studied rock specimens collected in different parts of the world. They arrived at quite an amazing conclusion in the end. They believed that stones have some kind of a vital activity though a very slow one. The geologists maintain the structure of stones is subject to changes, and stones can grow old. Moreover, the French claim stones can breathe, to a certain extent. Taking one “breath” takes them from three days to two weeks. And each of their “heartbeats” lasts about three days. The scientists say they gathered photographic evidence clearly indicating that stones could move. The pictures of stones were taken at large intervals. One of the stones is reported to have moved for 2.5 centimeters in two weeks’ time. The geologists stubbornly maintain that stones are living organisms though some physical processes relating to earth shove or water impact seem to be the most likely reasons behind the phenomenon.
So, OK, I'll play along. I picked up a few rocks from my garden and smashed them with my geologist hammer. French Scientist Dudes, I have bad news for you. I found no little stony legs, no little rocky hearts, no tiny little stone lungs - just dust and some gravel. The rock never even tried to run away.
I have to wonder just how these "geologists" figured that rocks breath? And as far as stones moving under their own power... dudes, DUDES! You must ease up on the LSD. It's just not good for you. For your own sanity, please, just step away from the glue and stop sniffing it.
And to think, this was in Pravda. Whoooo Boy!
French geologists Arnold Rheshar and Pierre Escollet have long studied rock specimens collected in different parts of the world. They arrived at quite an amazing conclusion in the end. They believed that stones have some kind of a vital activity though a very slow one. The geologists maintain the structure of stones is subject to changes, and stones can grow old. Moreover, the French claim stones can breathe, to a certain extent. Taking one “breath” takes them from three days to two weeks. And each of their “heartbeats” lasts about three days. The scientists say they gathered photographic evidence clearly indicating that stones could move. The pictures of stones were taken at large intervals. One of the stones is reported to have moved for 2.5 centimeters in two weeks’ time. The geologists stubbornly maintain that stones are living organisms though some physical processes relating to earth shove or water impact seem to be the most likely reasons behind the phenomenon.
So, OK, I'll play along. I picked up a few rocks from my garden and smashed them with my geologist hammer. French Scientist Dudes, I have bad news for you. I found no little stony legs, no little rocky hearts, no tiny little stone lungs - just dust and some gravel. The rock never even tried to run away.
I have to wonder just how these "geologists" figured that rocks breath? And as far as stones moving under their own power... dudes, DUDES! You must ease up on the LSD. It's just not good for you. For your own sanity, please, just step away from the glue and stop sniffing it.
And to think, this was in Pravda. Whoooo Boy!
Friday, July 14, 2006
Monday, July 10, 2006
Who Built the Moon?
Well, here's a great dinner topic. Try bringing this up next time you're out to dinner. Ask: "Who built the moon?" No really... try it. Then see if the goon squad with the padded truck doesn't show up real quick to pack you away to the looney bin.
Here's a fellow that's spent a goodly amount of time writing a book that asks the question: who built the moon. Of course, off hand, I can think of an even more mysterious question: who built the monkeys that just flew out of my butt? Hey... might as well. They're both on the same intellectual level. Only there's one difference. I didn't waste a year of my life and 200 trees worth of paper to spring that question on humanity.
This book, aptly named Who Built the Moon poses such a question - and it took 64,000 words to ask. The author, Christopher Knight, has actually consumed valuable resources in a vain attempt to convince us that perhaps the "boogeyman" built the moon. Perhaps it was even on a Saturday morning. And of course he somehow suspects (without a single micron of scientific evidence) that perhaps the moon is hollow. Yeah, that's it. And it's probably filled with candy, or radishes, or creme cheese, or yogurt perhaps. And what a construction project. The labor contracts were immense, right? Yeah... and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night too.
This is an example of an utter disregard for thousands of years of scientific method and knowledge. More appropriately, this is the kind of insane wild thoughtless fantasy that results from too many drugs, or sniffing too much glue. Really, I can't think why anyone would even contemplate wasting their time like this. And then, most amazingly, trying to waste other peoples time while charging them money. And worse... why anyone would actually BUY THIS BOOK. Well, as Mr. Barnam said long ago: "there's a sucker born every minute".
And for those that actually bought this book... I have a special secret message for you. Shhhhhh... be very quiet. Here it is: "send me money to pay the Sorgoshians off or they will shut the moon down, pack it up, and move it to the Vegan system. Hurry!!! They only accept hundred dollar bills.
LINK
Here's a fellow that's spent a goodly amount of time writing a book that asks the question: who built the moon. Of course, off hand, I can think of an even more mysterious question: who built the monkeys that just flew out of my butt? Hey... might as well. They're both on the same intellectual level. Only there's one difference. I didn't waste a year of my life and 200 trees worth of paper to spring that question on humanity.
This book, aptly named Who Built the Moon poses such a question - and it took 64,000 words to ask. The author, Christopher Knight, has actually consumed valuable resources in a vain attempt to convince us that perhaps the "boogeyman" built the moon. Perhaps it was even on a Saturday morning. And of course he somehow suspects (without a single micron of scientific evidence) that perhaps the moon is hollow. Yeah, that's it. And it's probably filled with candy, or radishes, or creme cheese, or yogurt perhaps. And what a construction project. The labor contracts were immense, right? Yeah... and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night too.
This is an example of an utter disregard for thousands of years of scientific method and knowledge. More appropriately, this is the kind of insane wild thoughtless fantasy that results from too many drugs, or sniffing too much glue. Really, I can't think why anyone would even contemplate wasting their time like this. And then, most amazingly, trying to waste other peoples time while charging them money. And worse... why anyone would actually BUY THIS BOOK. Well, as Mr. Barnam said long ago: "there's a sucker born every minute".
And for those that actually bought this book... I have a special secret message for you. Shhhhhh... be very quiet. Here it is: "send me money to pay the Sorgoshians off or they will shut the moon down, pack it up, and move it to the Vegan system. Hurry!!! They only accept hundred dollar bills.
LINK
Mantra: Its all the fault of Global Warming
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.
News link
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.
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.
News link
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.
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