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BLOGASSAULT on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:02:54 PM
Not to be out done byNBC's global warming travels, CNN has launched their own show called 'Planet In Peril".
The hyperbole that is global warming is growing larger thanks to the main stream media. Series specials, political hype, and the environmental scientists ability to attach to any kind of event that might be linked to a warming planet. it certainly did not take long for them to blame the fires in California on global warming.
Swetnam says that climate change -- global warming -- has increased temperatures in the West about one degree and that has caused four times more fires. Swetnam and his colleagues published those findings in the journal "Science," and the world’s leading researchers on climate change have endorsed their conclusions.
Yet, earlier in the article they blame the way we managed fire's in the past.
The policy was to put out all fires immediately. "Because we so successfully fought fire and eliminated fire from this ecosystem for a hundred years, because we thought that was the right thing to do, we’ve allowed a huge buildup of fuel in these woods. So now, when the fires get going, there’s a lot more to burn than historically you would’ve seen in a forest like this," Boatner explains.
Most information going around is that arson may be the cause, at least for some of the fires. Arson was suspected earlier this year, and also back in 2003.
Either way, this is is just more fuel for the global warming crowd to pressure more action and money for our 'planet in peril'.