Shock News: No Fires In Texas, Arizona, New Mexico or Colorado: Middle of July, and there are no large fires burning in the southwest. National Interagency Fire Center
Shock News : No Fires In Texas, Arizona, New Mexico or Colorado
Obama says that forest fires are proof of global warming, during one of the quietest fire years on record. Middle of July, and there are no large fires burning in the southwest. National Interagency Fire Center…
Report: Wildfires CAUSE global warming
Report: Wildfires CAUSE global warming
http://junkscience.com/2013/07/12/report-wildfires-cause-global-warming
The Los Angeles Times reports: Wildfires such as the Yarnell Hill blaze in Arizona may be warming Earth’s atmosphere far more than previously thought, according to a study by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Read more……
Wildfire aerosols not handled well in climate modeling
Wildfire aerosols not handled well in climate modeling
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/10/wildfire-aerosols-not-handled-well-in-climate-modeling
From Los Alamos National Laboratory: Wildfires may contribute more to global warming than previously predicted They suggest that fire emissions could contribute a lot more to the observed climate warming than current estimates show. Haze of smoke emanating from the 2011 Las Conchas, NM fire. Particle analysis shows “tar ball” effect is significant LOS ALAMOS, […]…
Cold, hard facts about wildfires
Cold, hard facts about wildfires
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” Sir John Houghton, First chairman of the IPCC
By Joe Bastardi and Joe D’Aleo, Weatherbell.com
Its a sad world today when not only does one have to offer weather explanations for a tragedy, but then have to counter obvious lies that are going to be told about it ( hence the reason I am not optimistic about our nation, because too many people accept, rather than question, what they hear). So the first thing I am going to do is show you the facts about how far below normal we are with Wildfires this year.
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W are close to a million acres below the 10 yr running mean over 15,000 fire less than the 10 year running mean, less fires than any of the last 10 years, and next to last in acres burned. And yet the climatic ambulance chasers are already out trying to push a lie on this matter that was born of the tragedy of 19 people losing their lives in the wildfire we have been hearing about.
The most destructive incident of fire I know of, and one that is somewhat infamous in meteorological terms is the Dresden Firestorm. Basically what was done to Japan with the Atom bomb was done to Dresden with mass bombing that created and inferno in the center of the city, and the heat plume that developed allowed air to rush in from cooler outlying areas and created what was a literal firestorm. Historians writing on this question the motives of the allies, since Dresden was not a military city. While not an expert on this it appears the decision to do this was the modern day parallel to Shermans burning of all of Georgia, not just the military part. It may have been to completely demoralize the population by hitting a city that really, was looked at as some place like Switzerland.. not really something that was contributing to the German war effort. In fact the Germans moved what little defense they had of Dresden to other places.
In any case, the diagram below shows what happened
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In the case of the wildfire there are two things to consider. The air is hot and dry, and the heating by the fire itself increasing the instability by making it even hotter. This means that winds …
If CO2 causes wildfires, how can we explain all these massive, deadly forest fires that occurred in years like 1871, 1894, 1910, and 1918?
I’m confused again: If CO2 causes wildfires, how can we explain all these massive, deadly forest fires that occurred in years like 1871, 1894, 1910, and 1918?
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-confused-again-if-co2-causes.html
And if one of these fires were to occur today, how many cows would people like Bill McKibben, Joe Romm, and Chris Mooney give birth to in their rush to produce stories blaming CO2?Weather Extremes : The Worst Wild Fires in World History | Weather UndergroundAll in all, well over 2,000 people died and close to 5 million acres (7,800 square miles) burned during the weeks of October 8-21, 1871 in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois. An intriguing, but most likely apocryphal, theory is that the fires were actually caused by the impact of fragments from Comet Biela that was observed at this time.It should be noted that all of the deadliest wild fires in American history have occurred in the Upper Midwest. Other notable fires were the Cloquet, Minnesota fire of October 13-15, 1918 that killed as many as 1,000, and the Hinkley, Minnesota fire of September 1, 1894 that killed 400-800….The worst wild fire in western history and the 2nd largest overall in the United States was the Great Fire of 1910. This massive forest fire burned some 3 million acres (4,700 square miles) in Idaho and Montana beginning on August 20-21, 1910. It killed at least 87 people…
July 3 update: CO2 has driven U.S. year-to-date wildfire acreage burned all way up to ninth place of the last 10 years, only over 750,000 acres less than the 10-year average
July 3 update: CO2 has driven U.S. year-to-date wildfire acreage burned all way up to ninth place of the last 10 years, only over 750,000 acres less than the 10-year average
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-3-update-co2-has-driven-us-year-to.html
National Interagency Fire Center…
1910: Low CO2 such an effective forest fire suppressor that only three million acres (over 350 Yarnells] burned in a single weekend
1910: Low CO2 such an effective forest fire suppressor that only three million acres (over 350 Yarnells] burned in a single weekend
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/1910-low-co2-such-effective-forest-fire.html
New West, Old Story – NYTimes.comAfter the Big Burn of 1910, which consumed three million acres in a weekend, the Forest Service became the fire serviceYarnell fire containment up to 45 percent; some in area can go home tonightOn Thursday, 676 firefighters continued efforts to contain the blaze, with the total acreage burned, 8,400, unchanged from late Wednesday.…