We think Al Gore & Bill Clinton got us within one Senate vote of starting to deal with this 30 years ago. The Republican Senators and seven Democrats, with Senator David Boren (D-OK) painting the...
I also remember seeing the trickle of smoke from the Oakland Biserkeley Fire from the Bay View Boat Club when racing my little sailboat. That fire was well documented on TV.
The documentation convinced me that abandon ship at first warning was the precautionary action.
We now live in beautiful metropolitan Cool CA and are experiencing the difficulties and expense of fire insurance. One of our neighbors had a health event and had to move down hill. They moved to Paradise and got burned out.
Living in the Sacramento Valley for 35 years I've watched the skies get dark most summers the past 15 years and the heat waves get worse. I worry for my friends in Grass Valley and Nevada City where a fire would be worse than Paradise.
I also worry about all the special places I've seen in the Sierras.
Watch Duty is the best app I've used for tracking fires.
Just imagine how bad this would be if, with US leadership, the world back in '75 had not adopted a tax on net CO2 emissions! Nuclear power woud be nowhere. They'd still be using _coal_ to produce electricity. We could not even have cheap CCS and have to worry about how to power airplanes w/o fossil fuels.
I was watching the smoke from the 1970 Clampitt Fire when we were living in Torrance.
https://scvhistory.com/gif/galleries/fire092570/. The explosive nature of the fire was well documented on TV.
I also remember seeing the trickle of smoke from the Oakland Biserkeley Fire from the Bay View Boat Club when racing my little sailboat. That fire was well documented on TV.
The documentation convinced me that abandon ship at first warning was the precautionary action.
We now live in beautiful metropolitan Cool CA and are experiencing the difficulties and expense of fire insurance. One of our neighbors had a health event and had to move down hill. They moved to Paradise and got burned out.
For me, watching Paradise was THE real eye-opener... -B.
Yes.
Houses are dry kindling and the green stuff has water in it.
Living in the Sacramento Valley for 35 years I've watched the skies get dark most summers the past 15 years and the heat waves get worse. I worry for my friends in Grass Valley and Nevada City where a fire would be worse than Paradise.
I also worry about all the special places I've seen in the Sierras.
Watch Duty is the best app I've used for tracking fires.
Auburn has had some fires also. https://www.kcra.com/article/auburn-wildfire-tears-path-of-destruction/6381318
I think Grass Valley had over 200 homes burned some years ago. I can't find a link so maybe a faulty memory.
Just imagine how bad this would be if, with US leadership, the world back in '75 had not adopted a tax on net CO2 emissions! Nuclear power woud be nowhere. They'd still be using _coal_ to produce electricity. We could not even have cheap CCS and have to worry about how to power airplanes w/o fossil fuels.
The poor firefighters. The poor residents. I am so very sorry.
This is all a hoax. Some people say.