…is nuts:
“We’re fighting nature with the amount of material we’re putting in the environment, and that material traps heat, and the heat fosters fires, and the fires keep burning,” he said.
The governor added that “since civilization emerged 10,000 years ago, we haven’t had this kind of heat condition, and it’s going to continue getting worse and that’s the way it is.”
“Some people don’t want to accept that, some just outright deny it,” Brown continued. “I don’t say it with any great joy here – we’re in for a very rough ride. It’s going to get expensive. It’s going to get dangerous, and we have to apply all our creativity to make the best of what is going to be an increasingly bad situation, not just for California, but for people all over America and all over the world.”
Brown said the state’s budget would also have to figure in the cost of increased fire fury in the upcoming years. “So far, this fire activity is a small part of our very large budget, but it is growing and it will continue to grow as we adapt to the changing weather,” he said.
The governor said that steps to combat global warming can still, eventually, “shift the weather back to where it historically was.”
Uh huh.
[Late-morning update]
So the heat is worse than when civilization began according to Gov Jerry Brown, So I guess he believes California was uncivilized before 2007, cause 2006,2005,2003 maxes all look warmer to anyone that bothers looking More climate ambulance chasing, more weaponizing weather pic.twitter.com/jRc7drVNqp
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) August 2, 2018
[Noon update]
More history from Joe Bastardi.
I guess he is not aware that geological records show that forest fires are a common natural event in California? If this is the Governor of California, then I fear for the product of that state’s education system.
Don’t fear. Weep.
I found out my manager has never read State of Fear, so I bought him a copy and gave it to him today. I’d get one for Jerry Brown, but I’m not sure he’d comprehend it; particularly the part about Native Americans harvesting trees in California like the crop they are. It’s not AGW causing more forest fires, but the idiocy of banning practical husbandry of forests.
We get a lot of people thinking like this in WA too. Every summer people freak out because it gets super dry and we have forest fires. Every year they freak out and there are all these people who think something is drastically wrong. But even though the same thing happens every year, people never realize that this is the nature of our local environment and it has been this way for thousands of years.
We have a variable climate here but one things is usually pretty constant, a hot dry summer. How hot and dry it is varies. Even in the milder years people get all, “Somethings wrong with nature. This isn’t natural.”
Same thing happens in the winter. When we get a lot of snow people think something is wrong and when we get little snow people think something is wrong but both conditions are just part of where we live and a product of the landscape and cycles in weather systems.