Following is interesting commentary taken from a Florida Forestry Association source about the
"Global Warming" discussion.
Written by
Michelle Malkin
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Al Gore slithered out of the political morgue to bemoan nationwide heat
records and pimp his new “Climate Reality Project,” which blames global warming
for the wildfire outbreak. NBC meteorologist Doug Kammerer asserted: “If we did
not have global warming, we wouldn’t see this.” Agriculture Department
Undersecretary Harris Sherman, who oversees the Forest Service, claimed to the
Washington Post: “The climate is changing, and these fires are a very strong
indicator of that.”
And the Associated Press (or rather, the Activist Press) lit the
fear-mongering torch with an eco-propaganda piece titled “U.S. summer is
what ‘global warming will look like.’”
The problem is that the actual conclusions of scientists included in AP’s
screed don’t back up the apocalyptic headline. As the reporter acknowledges
under that panicky banner:
“Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes
intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models and lots of time.
Sometimes it isn’t caused by global warming. Weather is always variable; freak
things happen.”
So, this U.S.
summer may or may not really look like “what global warming looks like.” Kinda.
Sorta. Possibly. Possibly not.
Furthermore, the AP reporter concedes, the “global” nature of the warming
and its supposed catastrophic events have “been local.” “Europe, Asia and Africa aren’t having similar disasters now, although
they’ve had their own extreme events in recent years.”
A more hedging headline would have been journalistically responsible, but
Chicken Little-ism better serves the global warming blame-ologists’ agenda.
More inconvenient truths: As The Washington Times noted this week, the National Climatic
Data Center
shows that “Colorado
has actually seen its average temperature drop slightly from 1998 to 2011, when
data is collected only from rural stations and not those that have been
urbanized since 1900.”
Radical green efforts to block logging and timber sales in national forests
since the 1990s are the real culprits. Wildlife mitigation experts point to
incompetent forest management and militant opposition to thinning the timber
fuel supply.
Another symptom of green obstructionism: widespread bark beetle
infestations. The U.S. Forest Service itself reported last year:
“During the last part of the 20th century, widespread treatments in
lodgepole pine stands that would have created age class diversity, enhanced the
vigor of remaining trees, and improved stand resiliency to drought or insect
attack - such as timber harvest and thinning - lacked public acceptance.
Proposals for such practices were routinely appealed and litigated,
constraining the ability of the Forest Service to manage what had become large
expanses of even-aged stands susceptible to a bark beetle outbreak.”
Capitulation to lawsuit-happy green thugs, in others, undermined “public
acceptance” of common sense, biodiversity-preserving and lifesaving timber
harvest and thinning practices.
Local, state and federal officials offered effusive praise for my fellow Colorado Springs
residents who engaged in preventive mitigation efforts in their neighborhoods.
The government flacks said it made a life-and-death difference. Yet, litigious
environmental groups have sabotaged such mitigation efforts at the national
level - in effect, creating an explosive tinderbox out of the West.
Stoking global warming alarms may make for titillating headlines and posh
Al Gore confabs. But it’s a human blame avoidance strategy rooted in
ideological extremism and flaming idiocy.
Henry D. Rogers, CCIM,
ALC

4348 Southpoint Blvd., Ste
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Jacksonville, FL 32216
Office 904-421-8537
Cell 904-614-4828
Fax 904-281-0998
email hrogers@cbcbenchmark.com
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