Nads: Don't get me started....

[formerlurker]

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 10:44 AM

 nadinbrzezinski (116,800 posts)







We went for a long drive yesterday...(climate change)





Last edited Sun Mar 3, 2013, 10:46 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

 This is still winter, and the ground going up to Julian is pretty dry already, in spite of the left over snow. The Cuyamaca lake is pretty low.
 
The reverse side of the hill is not that bad (micro climate I am betting...due to the forest)
 
What worries me is that we are going to have an active fire season (did I mentions such already, brush fires are already starting. This is winter, one in Riverside led to voluntary evacuations, it s 90% contained at this point)
 
How does this affect all of us? Well large fires require a state, at times a Federal response. Realize the Sequester will weaken that response. Oh and yes...climate change predicted what we are now seeing.
 
Oh don't get me started on people hating to pay them taxes, but will scream when the FD takes time to get there from here. That is another long conversation.

Dreamer Tatum (6,855 posts)

2. Lecturing people about climate change

After saying you went on a long drive is like me complaining about the fart smell in the room after I eat a bowl of beans. Just saying.

http://election.democraticunderground.com/10022453255


Nads still trying to make her brush fire chasing a story. 

Second time she has used "don't get me started.."   she must learn her American English from watching sitcoms.

[Splashdown]

Nice. Wasting gas on a long drive. Why don't you just put a gun to the head of our fragile environment?

[Freeper]

Yep they are right about climate change.
There have never been warm winters before, there has never ever been a wild fire until after the invention of the SUV.
Up until we started burning fossil fuels the earth was at a constant temperature and there never were bad storms, droughts, blizzards, and ice ages or any of that. If only we raise taxes then the temperature will start to decline back to the normal temperature the earth had always been.

[formerlurker]

Yep they are right about climate change.
There have never been warm winters before, there has never ever been a wild fire until after the invention of the SUV.
Up until we started burning fossil fuels the earth was at a constant temperature and there never were bad storms, droughts, blizzards, and ice ages or any of that. If only we raise taxes then the temperature will start to decline back to the normal temperature the earth had always been.

If only we go for more VERY LONG DRIVES in older model vehicle (which she claims to own)....we would notice these things more damnit! 

[Maxiest]

Suffic it to say gotta lover her and her riffles and crunchy nooooz.

[GOBUCKS]

See the USA in your Chevrolet

America is asking you to call.

Drive your Chevrolet through the USA

America's the greatest land of all.

Most of the people here have never heard that song, and it's a sure bet the crazy bald dwarf has never heard it.

[Mr Mannn]

nadinbrzezinski (116,804 posts)
8. I expect Cal-Fire to avoid the obvious as long as possible.

WTH???  what the heck did nads say this time?

[md11hydmec]

WTH???  what the heck did nads say this time?

She's crossing the rubicon.  Can't you read??  It's clearly plain and day.

[vesta111]

She's crossing the rubicon.  Can't you read??  It's clearly plain and day.

As Smokey the Bear says  "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires."

Have to remember lightening will set some good size blazes,  but this is not climate change. This is normal and we either adjust or die.

[Maxiest]

As Smokey the Bear says  "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires."

Have to remember lightening will set some good size blazes,  but this is not climate change. This is normal and we either adjust or die.

Yes, but according to them it's because of Climate Change that there is less rain and more heat thus making them easier to start and spread.

[NHSparky]

Funny, but usually the lakes don't fill up until after the meltoff is well underway; say, MAY OR JUNE???

[Dori]

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 10:44 AM

 nadinbrzezinski (116,800 posts)


We went for a long drive yesterday...(climate change)

Last edited Sun Mar 3, 2013, 10:46 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

 This is still winter, and the ground going up to Julian is pretty dry already, in spite of the left over snow. The Cuyamaca lake is pretty low.

Oh please.....Except for along the coast and in the higher elevations, So Calif is basically a desert, which you should know dumb a$$.  Most plants here have to be cultivated.  Draught conditions are not unusual for us as we have very low rainfall. We also get a lot of  fires, fueled by dry brush and high Santa Ana winds. Also a very typical condition here.

We do not have glo-bull warming.   Our weather is greatly affected by the surface temps of ocean currents called el Nino and la Nina.    
El Nino can bring a lot of rain into So Calif.  Which actually is worse, as it causes floods, ruining roads and hwys and spurs a lot of shrub growth, setting us up for even worse fire seasons with all the extra fuel.

California is one of the highest taxed states in the country.  If the idiots in Sacramento and San Diego can't allocate enough money to afford fire fighting equipment, and the tree huggers won't allow brush removal, then so be it.

As far as the Federal government goes, take that up with Obama, as he's the one that cancelled contracts for replacement air tankers in 2011, long before the sequester.

In 2002 the federal government had 44 large air tankers on exclusive use contracts. By 2012 the fleet had atrophied to nine. Some wildfire experts recommend that we need 30, 40, or even 50.

http://wildfiretoday.com/





 

[Skul]

Nobody's touched the start button yet.
Even primitives know better.

[thundley4]

Maybe we'll get lucky and climate change will cause a massive earthquake that drops California into the ocean.

[Dori]

Maybe we'll get lucky and climate change will cause a massive earthquake that drops California into the ocean.

It may not look like it to the rest of the Country, but there are still a lot of Conservatives out here.  We gave you all Ronald Reagan. 

[thundley4]

It may not look like it to the rest of the Country, but there are still a lot of Conservatives out here.  We gave you all Ronald Reagan. 

Don't worry.  The VWRC will give notice to conservatives before they trigger the Ronald Magnus Memorial Quake Generator.

[JLO]

See the USA in your Chevrolet

America is asking you to call.

Drive your Chevrolet through the USA

America's the greatest land of all.

Most of the people here have never heard that song, and it's a sure bet the crazy bald dwarf has never heard it.

Here's a link to Dinah Shore's rendition - sorry - I forgot how to post videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkzGqzRLq4g

[NHSparky]

and the tree huggers won't allow brush removal

With the exception of around homes, and not always then, this is SO true.  I was still there in when there was a series of wildfires around Lake Arrowhead/Big Bear where trees that had been killed by bark beetles but environmentalists wouldn't allow to be removed or cleared, turning those trees into so much fuel that during the worst of the cases were literally EXPLODING.

And that's not nearly as bad as the 2007 fire season.

Oh, how soon the DUmmies forget.

[Maxiest]

With the exception of around homes, and not always then, this is SO true.  I was still there in when there was a series of wildfires around Lake Arrowhead/Big Bear where trees that had been killed by bark beetles but environmentalists wouldn't allow to be removed or cleared, turning those trees into so much fuel that during the worst of the cases were literally EXPLODING.

And that's not nearly as bad as the 2007 fire season.

Oh, how soon the DUmmies forget.

2007 uh?  That was during Bush's reign wasn't it?  That's what I thought! 

/dumode off

[GOBUCKS]

I was still there in when there was a series of wildfires around Lake Arrowhead/Big Bear where trees that had been killed by bark beetles

No way. No tree has ever been killed by bark beetles or gypsy moths. All dead trees are caused by acid rain or global warming.

[Dori]

2007 uh?  That was during Bush's reign wasn't it?  That's what I thought! 

/dumode off

Bush tried to get some laws passed regarding forest maintenance, clearing undergrowth and saplings and ran into a huge lawsuit with the envirowackos.  I believe that was about the time of those huge fires in Arizona.

The enviro-wackos are crazy here in Calif.  They sue everybody for everything.  That's why it's hard for me to understand all the windmills and solar panel farms we have.  Those really destroy the wild life, besides being ugly eye sores.

[AprilRazz]

The enviro-wackos are crazy here in Calif.  They sue everybody for everything.  That's why it's hard for me to understand all the windmills and solar panel farms we have.  Those really destroy the wild life, besides being ugly eye sores.

You won't see any of those wind farms around the Kennedy compound though. The late inebriated one saw to that.

[BlueStateSaint]

You won't see any of those wind farms around the Kennedy compound though. The late inebriated one saw to that.

Ain't he finally sober?

[Ballygrl]

Dreamer Tatum (6,855 posts)

2. Lecturing people about climate change

After saying you went on a long drive is like me complaining about the fart smell in the room after I eat a bowl of beans. Just saying.

[Rebel]

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 10:44 AM

 nadinbrzezinski (116,800 posts)
 
Oh don't get me started on people hating to pay them taxes