The wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire.
I suspect that our fire weather is connected to the billions of dollars we are spending on armaments that we send all over the world. All those bombs are releasing carbon and other pollutants into the atmosphere, so we continue to cause destruction. In a sense, the bombs are exploding in Los Angeles, as well as Gaza and Ukraine and Yemen and…
How does warfare compare with our use of fossil fuels and its effect on our climate?
Apparently an M1 Abrams tank gets about 0.6 mpg and burns around 60 gallons an hour travelling across country and fk knows how many of those thing are rumbling around the planet, plus all the other war machines. So the contribution of war to ghg emissions is huge even without adding the products of the detonation of ordinance.
The Pentagon is one of the leading Greenhouse gas emissions sources in the world and wars are a major contributor, but, while I don't have the data in front of me, that is NOT greater than economic activity based on fossil fuels.
I don’t only mean the fossil fuels used by the military, and I don’t only mean the bombs themselves, but the structures that are pulverized are also putting a lot of pollutants into the air.
The biggest user of fossil fuels is the US DOD. If I'm even to believe that global climate crisis is, which Im not, then why aren't they setting the example rather than creating global CO2 by blowing up pipelines creating the largest release of methane in our globe's lifetime? This has been the coldest winter I recall since I was a child in High school in the late 70's here in the US northeast. As a child I remember news shows like NBC and CBS nightly news on the TV talking about being careful opening car doors because your skin could freeze to them.
What do they say? Those who don't know their history are bound to repeat it? I remember California almost always being on the news for mud slides and wildfires almost constantly when I was young. OK so I get it, it's inconvenient for people that choose to live in a desert that have gotten used to the availability of water to change over to a more desert like environment and certainly not good for property prices. Of course there were significantly less people living there in the 70's than today. There's actually more water in the US than there used to be. Overall the US precipitation since 1940 to 2025 has increased by 11%. Just because people move to Southern California doesn't make more water fall from the sky. Has anyone seen the mightly Colorado river after California? It's a mud bed. It's been so overused trying to keep a desert green that it doesn't make it to Mexico anymore. But who cares it's only Mexico. It always rains to much in one place and not enough in the other so it must be a climate crisis, right?
I acutally think that this whole "climate crisis" is just another way for government to give itself the ability to mess with the climate under the guise of national security. "Well we have to send up nuclear bombs of dust to block out the sun" and this kind of crazy consipiracy shit they constantly invent to move their control agenda forward. What better way to stop China's ascent than by blocking the sun and decimating the Asian population? Anything to retain Western control. Although when it came down to money in their pockets and paying American workers they destroyed America and shipped not only the jobs but the machines to Asia. Couldn't wait to get that big payoff. They should all be tried for treason and then deposed in the public square.
I've often tried to find the data of ocean's warming and lack of precipitation but it's just not available to be seen because the data doesn't support it. What does support it is the propaganda channels that are constantly pushed on the US population. The mainstream media hasn't done a piece of investigative anything since the early 80's as they too were sold out for the almighty dollar and Wall Street profits. How does one measure the depth of the ocean? At what place, at what time, at what tide and how does the underwater landscape itself change those numbers just by ebbs and flows of silt and sand?
What's the common denominator among all problems the US is facing? Wall St and Government in bed together. What are the 2 biggest monopolies?
Wall Street must be broken up and I don't mean just reconnected by the internet. I mean each state must maintain it's own "Wall Street" and businesses that reside in that state cannot incorporate in Delaware they must incoporate in the state they have setup shop in and they must be held to the states incorporation requirements. Return that power to each individual state. The federal government must be weakened. They must exist within the borders of DC not leaking over the border to Virginia like the Pentagon and others. We must reinstate the auditors of the government that have been forced out by constantly taking away oversight funding and increasing operational funding. It's all so corrupt and they all know it.
Finally and most importantly the people must have the right to bring criminal charges against their government which currently is only possible through the Attorney General who is put in place by the president. No conflict of interest there. I'd like to see an attorney general elected by the population at large but they can barely figure out who should be their president.
Chris, your post brought to mind Noam Chomsky and his extensive knowledge. While I miss hearing Professor Chomsky speak, I am grateful for your presence and the important work you do. I am deeply thankful to you and all those who tirelessly advocate for humanity.
I am so happy to see this article on Fire Weather. As a resident of the province of Alberta where the oil sands are located, I found this book absolutely riveting and horrifying at the same time. The behaviour of fires has changed with warming air and less moisture in the soil. The devastation in California this past week is a warning about the future. I urge anyone who cares about why this is happening to pick up this book.
Those woke clueless politicians and bureaucrats were installed so that when things like this happen they will get the blame rather than the globalists installing them and setting the woke agenda. It’s backwards from what most think. The “competency crisis” is a deliberate controlled demolition masquerading around as an accident of well meaning useful virtue signaling idiots:
The wildfires were not caused due to incompetence, but rather “on purpose malice” posing as incompetence, and they are likely being started with DARPA directed energy weapons, 100% unvetted terrorist illegal immigrants (“We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”—Obama), looters, and Antifa posing as firemen, just as in 2020:
Globalist Goals: rewild America, clear off the shores for the military, kill most of us, shove the rest of us into 15 minute prison cities. To do this you must first destroy the old cities and systems and rebuild new ones.
Paid arsonists are destroying these cities so they can buy them up for pennies on the dollar.
All of this destruction is geared toward maximizing pain and death, while destroying economic, social, physical, and mental productive capital on a vast scale. All designed to lead directly to global dependence-based enslavement where you will eat ze bugs and own nothing and be happy about it - or else.
In other words, their goal is to demolish our ability to sustain ourselves, transforming us into slaves reliant on their "generosity" for our survival and they’re reaching a level of control where Harari feels confident telling us that our Free Will is over while contemplating killing us outright out loud in public:
“Mr. Harari, thinking about all this, puts it this way: “Utopia and dystopia depends on your values.” … The useless class he describes is uniquely vulnerable. “If a century ago you mounted a revolution against exploitation, you knew that when bad comes to worse, they can’t shoot all of us because they need us,” he said, citing army service and factory work.
Now it is becoming less clear why the ruling elite would not just kill the new useless class. “You’re totally expendable,” he told the audience. … “We don’t need you. But we are nice, so we’ll take care of you.” —Source (worth reading in full): https://archive.is/rWLoO
OMG. Not everything is climate change, and not everything is right wing evangelicals. I am as libertarian left as it is possible to be, but Santa Ana winds have been doing this for millennia. The disaster was caused by a) people building homes in inappropriate places, like fire zones, or coastal wetlands, or flood zones, b) California politicians, despite having a mandate from the public for a decade to build new reservoirs, have not built any c) an incoherent fire-prevention policy that has resulted in almost no mitigation--do we remove brush? not remove brush? We just can't decide, so we'll do nothing d) the mayor cutting the budget of the fire department by 18 million, while the state and city gave many more millions to Israel to continue bombing Gaza e) PGE refusing to update its power lines or bury them, increasing the risk of aging power lines sparking and increasing fire risk e) the state keeping the prime reservoir above LA empty for over a year f) the state neglecting to save any of the record breaking rain from last year and letting it drain into the ocean g) the state refusing federal help from Donald Trump's administration after the last horrendous fires h) the state refusing offered help from Vladimir Putin after the last horrendous fires, when he offered to give them fire fighting planes that can scoop up water from oceans or lakes to drop on fires. As a result, California has to rent a whole two of these planes from Canada. So what exactly are you suggesting is "climate change" about any of that? Human negligence and stupidity, yes. Climate change, no. In fact, Santa Ana winds tend to get better as the temps warm.
You left out 300 days of no rainfall -that is clearly climate related. And excessive heat that dried the vegetation. That too is climate related. And the excessive growth of vegetation due to abnormally high precipitation after years of drought which stoked the fuels for the fire.
I have never promoted anything Trump in my life. You are revealing your tawdry tribal bona fides rather than anything sensible. I'm guessing you've never read a climate study in your life. No one is denying climate change here. But not everything is due to climate change. Some things are just due to climate period. What is the LA climate? How normal is it for there to be 300 days with no rain? It is common. How common is it for there to be a rainy year followed by a dry year? Common. What is the environment where the worst fires happened? They are fire zones and never should have been built up. If they were built up, they needed to be extensively managed. They weren't. In fact, they could not have been managed worse. What does the IPCC say about the likelihood of any fire or flood being the result of climate change? Oh that's right, they say there is "low confidence" of any such association. Calling everything climate change when a disaster is actually caused by environmental degradation and negligence is just lazy and stupid. And it guarantees that nothing will be fixed.
Climate scientists (or at least the sensible ones) do not say that any fires or floods are 'the result of climate change', that would be silly. They make them worse. As does environmental degradation and poor management. We all know humans impact in many disastrous ways.
Precipitation may increase overall, but if it all falls in a brief period followed by hundreds of dry days the result is more dead vegetation highly prone to burning in the right conditions. That's what has happened in Southern California.
Every one of your lettered points is true and extremely important. But that does not mean there is no climate change factor in these disasters, only that it is more imperative to fix the problems. I was born in LA and lived and visited intermittently for almost 75 years. Yes, there have always been fires and heat and drought, but I have watched them all get horrifyingly worse. I’ve watched the vegetation of the entire area brown and then blacken and then die, the typical temperatures get higher every decade, and the fires become more violent, even in areas with less development. You can’t convince me it’s not real - I’ve watched it.
The pictures I've seen of the tar sands mines in Alberta made me think of Tolkien's Mordor, the realm of the dark lord in the Lord of the Rings, where unspeakable evil dwells.
Wow, so many loony toons comments. Regardless of what anyone thinks, climate change is here, whether we like it or not. As far as LA is concerned, they brought this on themselves and now, they're paying the price. The same for everywhere else. Alberta is caught between a rock and a hard place as they have little to nothing else to offer anyone that is a lucrative as the tar sands, which is why the PM is down in Mar-A-Lago kissing King Donald's ring as we talk about this tonight. She will do whatever it takes to keep the money coming in. Contaminating her province to the point of inhabitability doesn't matter as she knows that it won't happen in her lifetime. She gets rich and doesn't care about anyone else while she is still above ground to enjoy the wealth.
This is the pattern we see everywhere. People are given opportunities to get wealthy and they sell their souls to get more. Meanwhile, the planet burns all around them. They don't care about the future. All that matters is the lifestyle of the rich and famous today, for as long as they are still alive to enjoy it. It's a sickness that will kill the planet's ecosystem unless we stop it somehow. Any ideas?
If you’re going to blame the human beings who happen to live in LA County for the perfect storm of horror that has descended on them now, you might have to blame yourself when it happens to you. The entire human race has created this problem, one way and another, and the entire human race will suffer for it if we don’t manage to stop it. Inexcusably, millions of other species will, as well. We’re in this together, like it or not.
This sickness of avarice has been around for a long time. It wanes and waxes. Right now greed is very popular. Not sure how to fix it but we need to call it out for what it is ... rapacious, predatory, morally corrupt capitalism - the behaviour is destroying our planet. And if we are going to try and find salvation in religion, well most organized religions (but not all), are on the take too.
Hey, but actor James Woods (whose house was apparently spared) referred to those who believe that the L.A. fires are related to man-made climate chance as “ignorant assholes.” (Perhaps his self-proclaimed 184 I.Q. was taking a break when he spoke.) Seriously, a terribly distressing article to read. One does what one can to minimize one’s carbon footprint, but my fear is that within a few decades the planet may be more different than anyone can now imagine, and not in a good way.
But he’s a fine actor who did excellent work with Leone and Oliver Stone, and frankly, I find him less annoying than Rob Reiner and the Hollywood crowd.
Hedges inadvertently - and lazily and unforgivably - reinforces Trump right wing lies about the alleged $17 million cut in the LA fire budget and an alleged lack of water at hydrants as factors in the devastation of the LA wildfires.
First of all, there may not even have been a real cut in the fire department's resources, from what I've heard. And even if there were, it would not have translated into staff and equipment reductions and it would not have had any effect on actual capacity to respond. And even if there were virtually unlimited manpower and equipment resources to respond, that could NOT have stopped this wildfire under the conditions (100 mph winds and dry vegetation under extreme drought). Finally, hit the links and look at the pie chart in the LA City budget, where cops are triple the fire department funds (and so much funding goes to PENSIONS, not actual response resources).
Second, Hedges again is lazy about fire hydrants. Regardless of the amount of water available, there could never have been enough water from hydrants and air planes to stop this wildfire, given the conditions.
These crucial fact errors were not buried in the weeds - they were in the lede paragraph!
We need to be extremely careful in facts and truth AND NOT ECHO FASCIST LIES.
The climate changes all the times; the man-made theory remains to be proven. I used to believe in man-made climate change, but I am now convinced that it is a hoax.
Delusion means detachment from reality and belief in imaginary. Calling climate science and catastrophe a hoax fits that definition and I stand by the claim.
A cultist is someone who suspends independent reason and agency to follow a cult leader. Trump has called climate science a hoax. His followers are cultists. You echo that lie, thus the shoe fits, so wear it.
1. "Delusion" depends on what side you are... the covid "vaccines" were "science" and have you not believed in "the science" you'd be labeled as "heretic", "delusional" and "anti science". The real science is not a fix point - it always changes as it progresses. Just as there was (and still is) a push to label gene therapy as "vaccines" and "extreme harmful" as "safe", there are interests at play to push this narrative; the "solutions" are not better than the problems they are trying to solve but make privileged actors to increase their fortune and justify more and more abusive control over the population. Either way, you can recognize true science by the fact that it can be debated; whenever you cannot debate anything, it is either religion, either plain dogma.
2. Trump also says that the sun rises from the East... since this is Trump we are talking about, FOR SURE the sun must be rising from the West - is that so?!
You falsely attempt to frame this as "what side you're on". And with your allusion to COVID, you obviously do not understand the critical distinctions between "science" (and how it evolves) and public health communications strategy. So much of the attacks on alleged "lies" in the science were really related to public health communications strategies which sought to avoid or minimize vaccine hesitance. Similarly, there is a sharp distinction between scientific debate and(essential) and what parades under that banner: so much of what is claimed to be scientific debate is just bullshit.
And your Trump sunrise false analogy is a serious failure in logical reasoning, which is so bad as to undermine your credibility and imply bad faith..
Hiya Bill, yes how well the duality of covid or climate has been drummed into us. When I say climate change hasn't been debunked people say I suppose you're on your 10th jab. When I say there's no evidence that vaccines save lives people say I suppose you're a climate change denier.
And yes attacking the 'science' on covid was in fact attacking the unscientific unevidenced measures.
Either way, the Earth has two heat sources; one is the sun, the other is the molten magma at the core of the Earth. The magma is cooling down and the Earth will eventually freeze - and that is the truth.
When the Earth was formed, it was a ball of hot, boiling magma; now it isn't anymore - the Earth is actually cooling down.
Long term temperature charts show how the Earth temperature has a relatively fast oscillation (saw-tooth shape), over-imposed on an asymptotic decline: the Earth is cooling down.
I suggest you read "The Ends of the World" by Peter Brannen. It is a summary of the previous 5 extinctions on planet Earth. The evidence indicates that a key factor in each extinction was massive volcanic eruptions that put huge quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere thereby drastically raising the global temperature.
If we learnt anything from the "covid" fakedemique, "correlation is not causation" :)...
1. When CO2 was much higher, the plant life was exploding... is this bad?
2. Low CO2 levels mean that the plants will have a hard time to survive as it is their fuel; we are close to a critical low point in CO2 concentration in history.
3. Whatever we may believe, the science is NEVER settled; to have a super complex ecosystem as the Earth has and single out an element that is present in less than half of a one thousandth of the atmosphere and claim that is the key for climate is -well - hubris.
One last thought: we live in a world in which lobotomy got the Nobel Prize for "science".
Yes, the earth will reclaim itelf into a poisoness sulfur dioxide atmosphere that will kill every oxygen breathing thing upon it if it get's too out-of-balance or so the geologist say.
I see... well, when the solution is a TAX and EVs (which are more harmful to the environment than regular cars) I don't buy the theory of man-made climate change... but I believe in arson and energy weapons.
Unfortunately, this is the unvarnished truth.......what's happening in LA tonight....and what is going to continue for days to come...is our future if we continue to deny the truth about hydrocarbons, elect denialists like Trump (raking the forest indeed), and are too lazy or lacking in imagination to begin the fastest global transition in the history of human life on earth.
Another future is possible......but it will require all of us, and a collective effort to reduce our carbon footprints.......imagine a world where everyone can thrive, and then roll up our sleeves and join the brave pioneers who have been working hard to inform us/show us another way.
And there's lots we can do: solarize, go EV, go electric bike, grow some of your own food......make your home a plastic free zone, get off Amazon, recycle and use recycled products instead of buying new, learn to repair stuff, learn to darn, waste nothing, restore soil wherever possible, put in a heat pump, use less electricity, swear off jet set vacations, ditch the snowplowers and gas lawn mowers, kill your lawn............etc. etc. etc.
Doing nothing is not an option, crying what can I do, an excuse.
John Vaillant, author of “Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World” is a MUST read. A fabulous writer, Vaillant documents the development of the tar sands (and that alone is fascinating) and the horrendous Fort McMurray Alberta fire in 2016. These new fires create their own weather systems. You can't put them out with conventional methods. Water has little to no effect when the temperature reaches 950 degrees. It vapourizes before it lands on the ground. And what is burning is not only wood, vegetation and soil, it's a toxic mix of plastics, vinyl, rubber, gasoline, paint, solvents, insulation, roofing material, drywall, wiring, automobiles - everything you can think of that can burn in a home, business or property. No one's talking about the horrific toxins being released into the atmosphere. Almost nothing about the obscene toll these fires inflict on wildlife. We've really f' ed up the planet with fire suppression, deforestation, burning fossil fuels and all the damage from wars.
"This vast cognitive dissonance, fed to us by mass culture, makes us the most self-deluded population in human history."
Willfully blind.
-edit: Well in many cases, willfully blind.
Granted there are complexities, but to use the Blind Men and the Elephant analogy, it's pretty much like while the elephant is sitting on the guy, he insists "THEY are lying about it. Whatever it is, it's pretty light. It's a hummingbird or something."
Others probably simply don't want to look at it because the reality is so overwhelming.
But an honest mistake, at this point? That's getting harder and harder.
I've been reading commentaries from the residents of Palisades in California, some of whom own multi, multi million dollar homes that were vaporized by the fires, reading their heartfelt descriptions of losing, not only the homes, but the contents that carried family histories, archeological meaning going back centuries, and so on. I do relate to their heartbreak, but then I immediately think about the Palestinian families in Gaza who are bombed in their tents (yes tents) by 2000 pound bombs supplied to the zionist entity by the United States, vaporizing everything in a 300 meter radius. I'm afraid even the destruction of the boreal forest in your article will only resonate with the media and readers/watchers for about two days after the fires are brought under control, until the next major disaster catches their attention. Even the environmental consequences of the Canadian tar sands extraction (that we have read and watched for decades) doesn't seem to hit the right nerves, as our thirst for fossil fuels doesn't diminish, but actually grows exponentially. Why, well the destruction the extraction in northern Alberta causes to the native populations and flora and fauna is basically hidden from the general public by a media owned and controled by mega corporations.
I liked your article, Chris, and as one who reads and regularly follows your posts, I know the empire won't let you reach a wider audience, and will silence you if you touch enough nerves they don't want you to touch.
I suspect that our fire weather is connected to the billions of dollars we are spending on armaments that we send all over the world. All those bombs are releasing carbon and other pollutants into the atmosphere, so we continue to cause destruction. In a sense, the bombs are exploding in Los Angeles, as well as Gaza and Ukraine and Yemen and…
How does warfare compare with our use of fossil fuels and its effect on our climate?
Apparently an M1 Abrams tank gets about 0.6 mpg and burns around 60 gallons an hour travelling across country and fk knows how many of those thing are rumbling around the planet, plus all the other war machines. So the contribution of war to ghg emissions is huge even without adding the products of the detonation of ordinance.
The US military is by far the single largest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world.
War is a 110% boon to the fossil fuel industries of the world..............get rid of weapons of mass destruction, and carbon emissions go down.
The Pentagon is one of the leading Greenhouse gas emissions sources in the world and wars are a major contributor, but, while I don't have the data in front of me, that is NOT greater than economic activity based on fossil fuels.
It could be argued that war is an economic activity. : )
I don’t only mean the fossil fuels used by the military, and I don’t only mean the bombs themselves, but the structures that are pulverized are also putting a lot of pollutants into the air.
The biggest user of fossil fuels is the US DOD. If I'm even to believe that global climate crisis is, which Im not, then why aren't they setting the example rather than creating global CO2 by blowing up pipelines creating the largest release of methane in our globe's lifetime? This has been the coldest winter I recall since I was a child in High school in the late 70's here in the US northeast. As a child I remember news shows like NBC and CBS nightly news on the TV talking about being careful opening car doors because your skin could freeze to them.
What do they say? Those who don't know their history are bound to repeat it? I remember California almost always being on the news for mud slides and wildfires almost constantly when I was young. OK so I get it, it's inconvenient for people that choose to live in a desert that have gotten used to the availability of water to change over to a more desert like environment and certainly not good for property prices. Of course there were significantly less people living there in the 70's than today. There's actually more water in the US than there used to be. Overall the US precipitation since 1940 to 2025 has increased by 11%. Just because people move to Southern California doesn't make more water fall from the sky. Has anyone seen the mightly Colorado river after California? It's a mud bed. It's been so overused trying to keep a desert green that it doesn't make it to Mexico anymore. But who cares it's only Mexico. It always rains to much in one place and not enough in the other so it must be a climate crisis, right?
I acutally think that this whole "climate crisis" is just another way for government to give itself the ability to mess with the climate under the guise of national security. "Well we have to send up nuclear bombs of dust to block out the sun" and this kind of crazy consipiracy shit they constantly invent to move their control agenda forward. What better way to stop China's ascent than by blocking the sun and decimating the Asian population? Anything to retain Western control. Although when it came down to money in their pockets and paying American workers they destroyed America and shipped not only the jobs but the machines to Asia. Couldn't wait to get that big payoff. They should all be tried for treason and then deposed in the public square.
I've often tried to find the data of ocean's warming and lack of precipitation but it's just not available to be seen because the data doesn't support it. What does support it is the propaganda channels that are constantly pushed on the US population. The mainstream media hasn't done a piece of investigative anything since the early 80's as they too were sold out for the almighty dollar and Wall Street profits. How does one measure the depth of the ocean? At what place, at what time, at what tide and how does the underwater landscape itself change those numbers just by ebbs and flows of silt and sand?
What's the common denominator among all problems the US is facing? Wall St and Government in bed together. What are the 2 biggest monopolies?
Wall Street must be broken up and I don't mean just reconnected by the internet. I mean each state must maintain it's own "Wall Street" and businesses that reside in that state cannot incorporate in Delaware they must incoporate in the state they have setup shop in and they must be held to the states incorporation requirements. Return that power to each individual state. The federal government must be weakened. They must exist within the borders of DC not leaking over the border to Virginia like the Pentagon and others. We must reinstate the auditors of the government that have been forced out by constantly taking away oversight funding and increasing operational funding. It's all so corrupt and they all know it.
Finally and most importantly the people must have the right to bring criminal charges against their government which currently is only possible through the Attorney General who is put in place by the president. No conflict of interest there. I'd like to see an attorney general elected by the population at large but they can barely figure out who should be their president.
Chris, your post brought to mind Noam Chomsky and his extensive knowledge. While I miss hearing Professor Chomsky speak, I am grateful for your presence and the important work you do. I am deeply thankful to you and all those who tirelessly advocate for humanity.
BINGO!
I am so happy to see this article on Fire Weather. As a resident of the province of Alberta where the oil sands are located, I found this book absolutely riveting and horrifying at the same time. The behaviour of fires has changed with warming air and less moisture in the soil. The devastation in California this past week is a warning about the future. I urge anyone who cares about why this is happening to pick up this book.
The percipitation records show an 11% increase across the US since 1940.
Yes, as temperatures increase there is more water vapour in the air and therefore more rain. Thanks for confirming that climate change is happening.
However, it doesn't mean that this is evenly spread.
Some notes on this Chris:
Those woke clueless politicians and bureaucrats were installed so that when things like this happen they will get the blame rather than the globalists installing them and setting the woke agenda. It’s backwards from what most think. The “competency crisis” is a deliberate controlled demolition masquerading around as an accident of well meaning useful virtue signaling idiots:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/why-all-these-brands-ab-inbev-target
The wildfires were not caused due to incompetence, but rather “on purpose malice” posing as incompetence, and they are likely being started with DARPA directed energy weapons, 100% unvetted terrorist illegal immigrants (“We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”—Obama), looters, and Antifa posing as firemen, just as in 2020:
https://tritorch.com/degradation/!AntifaDressedAsFiremen.jpg [image]
dutchsinse: All of SE Quebec Erupted Into Wildfires ALL AT ONCE June 2nd: https://old.bitchute.com/video/d07sl4jc6a3u
Globalist Goals: rewild America, clear off the shores for the military, kill most of us, shove the rest of us into 15 minute prison cities. To do this you must first destroy the old cities and systems and rebuild new ones.
Paid arsonists are destroying these cities so they can buy them up for pennies on the dollar.
https://tritorch.com/degradation/ArsonistsStartingForrestFiresInOregon2020AntifaTactics.pdf [pdf]
All of this destruction is geared toward maximizing pain and death, while destroying economic, social, physical, and mental productive capital on a vast scale. All designed to lead directly to global dependence-based enslavement where you will eat ze bugs and own nothing and be happy about it - or else.
In other words, their goal is to demolish our ability to sustain ourselves, transforming us into slaves reliant on their "generosity" for our survival and they’re reaching a level of control where Harari feels confident telling us that our Free Will is over while contemplating killing us outright out loud in public:
“Mr. Harari, thinking about all this, puts it this way: “Utopia and dystopia depends on your values.” … The useless class he describes is uniquely vulnerable. “If a century ago you mounted a revolution against exploitation, you knew that when bad comes to worse, they can’t shoot all of us because they need us,” he said, citing army service and factory work.
Now it is becoming less clear why the ruling elite would not just kill the new useless class. “You’re totally expendable,” he told the audience. … “We don’t need you. But we are nice, so we’ll take care of you.” —Source (worth reading in full): https://archive.is/rWLoO
Dutchsinse (9/9/2020): NIGHT 2: Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) off California -- Color enhanced2020; https://old.bitchute.com/video/zD4BRqfQ0jpz
What DEWs look like when used:
https://tritorch.com/degradation/DEWsDirectedEnergyWeaponsUsedOnChile.mp4
What DEWs do to cars, Maui edition:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/1w5QiDpShY8p
Blessings to the California victims.
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OMG. Not everything is climate change, and not everything is right wing evangelicals. I am as libertarian left as it is possible to be, but Santa Ana winds have been doing this for millennia. The disaster was caused by a) people building homes in inappropriate places, like fire zones, or coastal wetlands, or flood zones, b) California politicians, despite having a mandate from the public for a decade to build new reservoirs, have not built any c) an incoherent fire-prevention policy that has resulted in almost no mitigation--do we remove brush? not remove brush? We just can't decide, so we'll do nothing d) the mayor cutting the budget of the fire department by 18 million, while the state and city gave many more millions to Israel to continue bombing Gaza e) PGE refusing to update its power lines or bury them, increasing the risk of aging power lines sparking and increasing fire risk e) the state keeping the prime reservoir above LA empty for over a year f) the state neglecting to save any of the record breaking rain from last year and letting it drain into the ocean g) the state refusing federal help from Donald Trump's administration after the last horrendous fires h) the state refusing offered help from Vladimir Putin after the last horrendous fires, when he offered to give them fire fighting planes that can scoop up water from oceans or lakes to drop on fires. As a result, California has to rent a whole two of these planes from Canada. So what exactly are you suggesting is "climate change" about any of that? Human negligence and stupidity, yes. Climate change, no. In fact, Santa Ana winds tend to get better as the temps warm.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GL080261
Also, please read any IPCC report on the likelihood of any particular weather catastrophe being caused by climate change.
You left out 300 days of no rainfall -that is clearly climate related. And excessive heat that dried the vegetation. That too is climate related. And the excessive growth of vegetation due to abnormally high precipitation after years of drought which stoked the fuels for the fire.
Get off the climate denial Trump cult crack pipe.
Southern California is a desert engineered into a man-made paradise.
I have never promoted anything Trump in my life. You are revealing your tawdry tribal bona fides rather than anything sensible. I'm guessing you've never read a climate study in your life. No one is denying climate change here. But not everything is due to climate change. Some things are just due to climate period. What is the LA climate? How normal is it for there to be 300 days with no rain? It is common. How common is it for there to be a rainy year followed by a dry year? Common. What is the environment where the worst fires happened? They are fire zones and never should have been built up. If they were built up, they needed to be extensively managed. They weren't. In fact, they could not have been managed worse. What does the IPCC say about the likelihood of any fire or flood being the result of climate change? Oh that's right, they say there is "low confidence" of any such association. Calling everything climate change when a disaster is actually caused by environmental degradation and negligence is just lazy and stupid. And it guarantees that nothing will be fixed.
Climate scientists (or at least the sensible ones) do not say that any fires or floods are 'the result of climate change', that would be silly. They make them worse. As does environmental degradation and poor management. We all know humans impact in many disastrous ways.
And yet since 1940 the US precipitation as increased by 11%.
Hell again.
Precipitation may increase overall, but if it all falls in a brief period followed by hundreds of dry days the result is more dead vegetation highly prone to burning in the right conditions. That's what has happened in Southern California.
That's how deserts are. They get rainfall in spring and then die the rest of the year.
Yes, and because it's getting hotter it's getting drier in the hot times and wetter in the wet times.
Every one of your lettered points is true and extremely important. But that does not mean there is no climate change factor in these disasters, only that it is more imperative to fix the problems. I was born in LA and lived and visited intermittently for almost 75 years. Yes, there have always been fires and heat and drought, but I have watched them all get horrifyingly worse. I’ve watched the vegetation of the entire area brown and then blacken and then die, the typical temperatures get higher every decade, and the fires become more violent, even in areas with less development. You can’t convince me it’s not real - I’ve watched it.
This is the winter , not a hot dry summer
It’s a hot dry summer that has lasted through the winter. 300 days with no rainfall!
PG&E doesn't serve the Los Angeles area.
The pictures I've seen of the tar sands mines in Alberta made me think of Tolkien's Mordor, the realm of the dark lord in the Lord of the Rings, where unspeakable evil dwells.
Wow, so many loony toons comments. Regardless of what anyone thinks, climate change is here, whether we like it or not. As far as LA is concerned, they brought this on themselves and now, they're paying the price. The same for everywhere else. Alberta is caught between a rock and a hard place as they have little to nothing else to offer anyone that is a lucrative as the tar sands, which is why the PM is down in Mar-A-Lago kissing King Donald's ring as we talk about this tonight. She will do whatever it takes to keep the money coming in. Contaminating her province to the point of inhabitability doesn't matter as she knows that it won't happen in her lifetime. She gets rich and doesn't care about anyone else while she is still above ground to enjoy the wealth.
This is the pattern we see everywhere. People are given opportunities to get wealthy and they sell their souls to get more. Meanwhile, the planet burns all around them. They don't care about the future. All that matters is the lifestyle of the rich and famous today, for as long as they are still alive to enjoy it. It's a sickness that will kill the planet's ecosystem unless we stop it somehow. Any ideas?
If you’re going to blame the human beings who happen to live in LA County for the perfect storm of horror that has descended on them now, you might have to blame yourself when it happens to you. The entire human race has created this problem, one way and another, and the entire human race will suffer for it if we don’t manage to stop it. Inexcusably, millions of other species will, as well. We’re in this together, like it or not.
This sickness of avarice has been around for a long time. It wanes and waxes. Right now greed is very popular. Not sure how to fix it but we need to call it out for what it is ... rapacious, predatory, morally corrupt capitalism - the behaviour is destroying our planet. And if we are going to try and find salvation in religion, well most organized religions (but not all), are on the take too.
Off the cliff, eyes wide open.
Hey, but actor James Woods (whose house was apparently spared) referred to those who believe that the L.A. fires are related to man-made climate chance as “ignorant assholes.” (Perhaps his self-proclaimed 184 I.Q. was taking a break when he spoke.) Seriously, a terribly distressing article to read. One does what one can to minimize one’s carbon footprint, but my fear is that within a few decades the planet may be more different than anyone can now imagine, and not in a good way.
You’re off by a digit. His I. Q. Is 1984.
But he’s a fine actor who did excellent work with Leone and Oliver Stone, and frankly, I find him less annoying than Rob Reiner and the Hollywood crowd.
Yeah, "kill them all" Woods is kinda likeable. 😡
He’s a conservative
Hedges inadvertently - and lazily and unforgivably - reinforces Trump right wing lies about the alleged $17 million cut in the LA fire budget and an alleged lack of water at hydrants as factors in the devastation of the LA wildfires.
First of all, there may not even have been a real cut in the fire department's resources, from what I've heard. And even if there were, it would not have translated into staff and equipment reductions and it would not have had any effect on actual capacity to respond. And even if there were virtually unlimited manpower and equipment resources to respond, that could NOT have stopped this wildfire under the conditions (100 mph winds and dry vegetation under extreme drought). Finally, hit the links and look at the pie chart in the LA City budget, where cops are triple the fire department funds (and so much funding goes to PENSIONS, not actual response resources).
Second, Hedges again is lazy about fire hydrants. Regardless of the amount of water available, there could never have been enough water from hydrants and air planes to stop this wildfire, given the conditions.
These crucial fact errors were not buried in the weeds - they were in the lede paragraph!
We need to be extremely careful in facts and truth AND NOT ECHO FASCIST LIES.
https://lawyerlisa.substack.com/p/climate-minute-desert-greening-from
The climate changes all the times; the man-made theory remains to be proven. I used to believe in man-made climate change, but I am now convinced that it is a hoax.
Delusional cultist
Care to elaborate on your statement or it is above your pay grade? Means nothing as you dropped it.
Delusion means detachment from reality and belief in imaginary. Calling climate science and catastrophe a hoax fits that definition and I stand by the claim.
A cultist is someone who suspends independent reason and agency to follow a cult leader. Trump has called climate science a hoax. His followers are cultists. You echo that lie, thus the shoe fits, so wear it.
At least now we have something to work with :P...
1. "Delusion" depends on what side you are... the covid "vaccines" were "science" and have you not believed in "the science" you'd be labeled as "heretic", "delusional" and "anti science". The real science is not a fix point - it always changes as it progresses. Just as there was (and still is) a push to label gene therapy as "vaccines" and "extreme harmful" as "safe", there are interests at play to push this narrative; the "solutions" are not better than the problems they are trying to solve but make privileged actors to increase their fortune and justify more and more abusive control over the population. Either way, you can recognize true science by the fact that it can be debated; whenever you cannot debate anything, it is either religion, either plain dogma.
2. Trump also says that the sun rises from the East... since this is Trump we are talking about, FOR SURE the sun must be rising from the West - is that so?!
You falsely attempt to frame this as "what side you're on". And with your allusion to COVID, you obviously do not understand the critical distinctions between "science" (and how it evolves) and public health communications strategy. So much of the attacks on alleged "lies" in the science were really related to public health communications strategies which sought to avoid or minimize vaccine hesitance. Similarly, there is a sharp distinction between scientific debate and(essential) and what parades under that banner: so much of what is claimed to be scientific debate is just bullshit.
And your Trump sunrise false analogy is a serious failure in logical reasoning, which is so bad as to undermine your credibility and imply bad faith..
I see... so the "vaccines" ARE "safe and effective" and "saved millions of lives" - right Bill?
Hiya Bill, yes how well the duality of covid or climate has been drummed into us. When I say climate change hasn't been debunked people say I suppose you're on your 10th jab. When I say there's no evidence that vaccines save lives people say I suppose you're a climate change denier.
And yes attacking the 'science' on covid was in fact attacking the unscientific unevidenced measures.
I urge you to read this book.
What book? You forgot the link.
Either way, the Earth has two heat sources; one is the sun, the other is the molten magma at the core of the Earth. The magma is cooling down and the Earth will eventually freeze - and that is the truth.
When the Earth was formed, it was a ball of hot, boiling magma; now it isn't anymore - the Earth is actually cooling down.
Long term temperature charts show how the Earth temperature has a relatively fast oscillation (saw-tooth shape), over-imposed on an asymptotic decline: the Earth is cooling down.
As for the CO2; according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth), CO2 is 0.04% from the total... to claim that this is the ONLY cause of climate change is ridiculous!!!
"The science" has been corrupted for many centuries to serve the interests of the ruling class.
Sure, we were lied to about the injectable products in 2020 and beyond, but FOR SURE we are told the truth about everything else.
I suggest you read "The Ends of the World" by Peter Brannen. It is a summary of the previous 5 extinctions on planet Earth. The evidence indicates that a key factor in each extinction was massive volcanic eruptions that put huge quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere thereby drastically raising the global temperature.
If we learnt anything from the "covid" fakedemique, "correlation is not causation" :)...
1. When CO2 was much higher, the plant life was exploding... is this bad?
2. Low CO2 levels mean that the plants will have a hard time to survive as it is their fuel; we are close to a critical low point in CO2 concentration in history.
3. Whatever we may believe, the science is NEVER settled; to have a super complex ecosystem as the Earth has and single out an element that is present in less than half of a one thousandth of the atmosphere and claim that is the key for climate is -well - hubris.
One last thought: we live in a world in which lobotomy got the Nobel Prize for "science".
Yes, the earth will reclaim itelf into a poisoness sulfur dioxide atmosphere that will kill every oxygen breathing thing upon it if it get's too out-of-balance or so the geologist say.
Fire Weather, the book Chris is talking about in his post.
I see... well, when the solution is a TAX and EVs (which are more harmful to the environment than regular cars) I don't buy the theory of man-made climate change... but I believe in arson and energy weapons.
Just for you:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/oXJEvpIcLPfa
Does anyone remember elementary science class? 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% everything else. That CO2 is like a penny in the federal budget.
It’s like a penny in a light socket. Read some science, please.
How does that sand taste?
... said the guy whose name is "high" :P...
Unfortunately, this is the unvarnished truth.......what's happening in LA tonight....and what is going to continue for days to come...is our future if we continue to deny the truth about hydrocarbons, elect denialists like Trump (raking the forest indeed), and are too lazy or lacking in imagination to begin the fastest global transition in the history of human life on earth.
Another future is possible......but it will require all of us, and a collective effort to reduce our carbon footprints.......imagine a world where everyone can thrive, and then roll up our sleeves and join the brave pioneers who have been working hard to inform us/show us another way.
And there's lots we can do: solarize, go EV, go electric bike, grow some of your own food......make your home a plastic free zone, get off Amazon, recycle and use recycled products instead of buying new, learn to repair stuff, learn to darn, waste nothing, restore soil wherever possible, put in a heat pump, use less electricity, swear off jet set vacations, ditch the snowplowers and gas lawn mowers, kill your lawn............etc. etc. etc.
Doing nothing is not an option, crying what can I do, an excuse.
John Vaillant, author of “Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World” is a MUST read. A fabulous writer, Vaillant documents the development of the tar sands (and that alone is fascinating) and the horrendous Fort McMurray Alberta fire in 2016. These new fires create their own weather systems. You can't put them out with conventional methods. Water has little to no effect when the temperature reaches 950 degrees. It vapourizes before it lands on the ground. And what is burning is not only wood, vegetation and soil, it's a toxic mix of plastics, vinyl, rubber, gasoline, paint, solvents, insulation, roofing material, drywall, wiring, automobiles - everything you can think of that can burn in a home, business or property. No one's talking about the horrific toxins being released into the atmosphere. Almost nothing about the obscene toll these fires inflict on wildlife. We've really f' ed up the planet with fire suppression, deforestation, burning fossil fuels and all the damage from wars.
"This vast cognitive dissonance, fed to us by mass culture, makes us the most self-deluded population in human history."
Willfully blind.
-edit: Well in many cases, willfully blind.
Granted there are complexities, but to use the Blind Men and the Elephant analogy, it's pretty much like while the elephant is sitting on the guy, he insists "THEY are lying about it. Whatever it is, it's pretty light. It's a hummingbird or something."
Others probably simply don't want to look at it because the reality is so overwhelming.
But an honest mistake, at this point? That's getting harder and harder.
Illuminating, Chris. Pun intended. Terrifying too. Thanks again for the detailed unpacking of what's going on!
Thanks Chris. Neal would have loved this post. Gretel
Thanks Gretel. Miss him. Hope you are well.
Living in Santa Fe among many old and new friends. Come visit. G
After being driven out of Santa Fe, I spent weeks camping out on the Taos plateau.
Related to Paul Ehrlich? Fill us rubes in on the inside game.
I've been reading commentaries from the residents of Palisades in California, some of whom own multi, multi million dollar homes that were vaporized by the fires, reading their heartfelt descriptions of losing, not only the homes, but the contents that carried family histories, archeological meaning going back centuries, and so on. I do relate to their heartbreak, but then I immediately think about the Palestinian families in Gaza who are bombed in their tents (yes tents) by 2000 pound bombs supplied to the zionist entity by the United States, vaporizing everything in a 300 meter radius. I'm afraid even the destruction of the boreal forest in your article will only resonate with the media and readers/watchers for about two days after the fires are brought under control, until the next major disaster catches their attention. Even the environmental consequences of the Canadian tar sands extraction (that we have read and watched for decades) doesn't seem to hit the right nerves, as our thirst for fossil fuels doesn't diminish, but actually grows exponentially. Why, well the destruction the extraction in northern Alberta causes to the native populations and flora and fauna is basically hidden from the general public by a media owned and controled by mega corporations.
I liked your article, Chris, and as one who reads and regularly follows your posts, I know the empire won't let you reach a wider audience, and will silence you if you touch enough nerves they don't want you to touch.