Of course he was laughing. Muslim charged for starting Australian wildfire laughs after court hearing.
Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer noted Islamic jihadis have identified setting fires as a tool of jihad.
In 2018, the ISIS-linked Al-Ansar Media claimed wildfires in California were retribution for America’s participation in the civil war in Syria.
Don’t expect to see this story on the 24 hour news channels. Doesn’t fit the narrative. Find my previous post on this topic at this link.
Climate change toward better conditions would be horrible. From the Left’s point of view, that is. After Years of Fiery Hell, California Gets Less of a Scorching in 2019.
Only about 163,000 acres have burned this year, a fraction of the 632,000 or so scorched in the same period last year. A wet, snowy winter led to a widespread greening in the spring, signaling there would be plenty of tinder around after a hot, dry summer. But the landscape stayed relatively moist after clouds moored above the Sierra Nevadas in May slowed the snow melt.
So when is it weather, and when is it climate change? I need a scorecard, or a flowchart, or something.
And maybe the good folks in Kalifornia need to get used to blackouts, because PG&E says it found some 100 instances of wind-damage that could have started fires. In case you missed it, the utility cut power to about 2 million people and the businesses that support them.
While that move has faced fierce criticism, PG&E crews inspecting more than 27,500 miles (44,257 kilometers) of power lines after the blackout found wind damage that included trees tangled with power lines and utility poles knocked to the ground.
Of course either way, PG&E loses. They cut power; they lose. They start fires; they lose.
If you make money available to .gov bureaucrats, they will spend it, for fear you will take it away in the future. Report rips expensive decisions in California wildfire fight.
California wildfires have been on my mind since I ran across some videos that offered more information about the Camp Fire than I was getting from the media. (See my post on that at this link.)
This report covers a review of fire suppression efforts for a fire in Big Sur two years ago, known as the Soberanes Fire.
In the first week, the blaze destroyed 57 homes and killed a bulldozer operator, then moved into remote wilderness in the Los Padres National Forest. Yet for nearly three more months the attack barely let up.
The Soberanes Fire burned its way into the record books, costing $262 million as the most expensive wildland firefight in U.S. history in what a new report calls an “extreme example of excessive, unaccountable, budget-busting suppression spending.”
You should fight to save lives, homes and infrastructure, but should you continue to spend at the same rate when none of that is at risk?
Also, you couldn’t possibly spend some of the 260 million dollars on forest management, because that is a different department. (Let them get their own budget!)
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P. J. O’Rourke
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