Climate change is affecting wildfires. But Newsom and legislators still need to do more

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It’s time for the governor to start blaming mismanagement of the forests as much as climate change for these horrendous wildfires, columnist George Skelton writes.

Trump deflected questions about whether climate change was a driving force behind California’s historic wildfires this year.The Trump and Newsom administrations, however, did sign a pact last month to each clean up 500,000 acres of forestland annually for the next five years. The state has been cleaning around 400,000 acres each year, and the U.S. Forest Service about 200,000.

“We want to work with you to really recognize the changing climate and what it means to our forests,” Crowfoot told the president, who’s the nation’s leading climate change denier. On “getting cooler,” one would hope that the president was merely referring to the changing seasons — it’s practically fall and pretty soon it’ll be winter. But unfortunately, that’s not likely.It was another example of Trump fantasy.

 

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Sea rise is caused by Precession, it is why climate change has happened continuously along with polar sift for billions of years. The last glacial melt cycle started about 20,000 years ago as per last ice core study has shown. Man can't stop it!

There has been a 43% increase in arson fires in LA from the same time period last year. Could the coronavirus pandemic be partly to blame/ ANTIFA?

Serial ANTIFA arsonist

What do you mean 'But'. You don't stop trees from burning because global warming is going on? WTF? This is an ecological disaster caused by the people who are supposed to be protecting our wild spaces. We set these areas aside to protect them, we should have logged them.

Do you mean the rain shadow caused by your urban sprawl and asphalting of Caul-eee-forn-yah?

America wildfires are creating pollution and harming ppl's health. In classic fashion, The US should pay the other countries for the loss.

realDonaldTrump just wear the damn mask

Rake your forest boy GavinNewsom

Yes, but there are people who need to go to jail for setting them.

It's arson starting wildfires. Stop with the bs.

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