Bloomberg’s Wildfire Denial
By Paul Homewood
Bloomberg are doing what they are accusing a tiny handful of conspiracy theorists of doing, by invoking the climate bogeyman!
They begin with a fatuous statement that extreme weather is getting more frequent, something which there is no evidence for.
But what is wrong (or a “false narrative”) about looking for the cause of ignition? After all, we know that most of the fires in Greece were human caused.
In the case of Maui, it appears to have been a power cable brought down in high winds. If you want to prevent wildfires, the first thing to do is eliminate possible sources of ignition. For years the local fire experts on Maui have been calling for power cables to be made more resilient.
But the reason why the fires spread so quickly and disastrously was the spread of invasive, savanna grasses in recent years, which have taken over abandoned plantations.
These grasses grow quickly in Hawaii’s wet winters, and dry out every summer, leaving a giant tinderbox. Add a spark and strong winds, and the disaster which recently occurred was inevitable.
Again, the local fire experts have been calling for these abandoned plantations to be properly managed, with the grasses cut back and firebreaks created.
Instead of following the facts, Bloomberg would rather peddle their own false narrative.
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114 dead, 1300 missing so far. Warning sirens not used. No water in fire hydrants.
It is difficult not to point a finger. And I wonder about those 1300 missing.
Warnings ignored, 3 ft high dry grass on the downwind slope on government owned land and rotten electricity poles right across the top….what could possibly go wrong? (Last weeeks NALOPKT
The utility that serves me, in central WA USA, hired a crew that drilled into the wood poles to determine the quality thereof. They then plugged the hole with a metal disk with their name: Interpole. [10 years ago]
This must be a regular procedure in the region; why else would there be company doing it?
It seems pretty much all the recent forest fires in Canada, Maui, Rhodes, Tenerife amongst others have all been started by accident or arson.
Blaming climate change for hot weather and dry forestry conditions at the height of summer seems pretty lame.
Of course they have. They start at one point in an area, not everywhere at once. Its very hot here in SW France at the moment but no wildfires, unlike last year. Because last year it was arson.
Fires need a spark to start. No forest or grassland spontaneously ignites.
A lightning strike, a discarded bottle, a flicked fag-end – those are as near “spontaneous” as matters. The source of ignition is a secondary consideration. So is the lack of sirens, or water, or whatever.
It’s the fuel that matters and, relatedly, how many combustible buildings you’ve got close to the fuel.
Spontaneous combustion of wood temperature is 600°C (1112°F) if heating by radiation.
That’s a lot of back radiation from man made global warming.
Or
Lightning.
Or
Human accident/arson.
But if attributed to climate change by CO2, then it’s the back radiation.
Don’t think I’d call that “spontaneous.”
P Holmwood: ” If you want to prevent wildfires, the first thing to do is eliminate possible sources of ignition. ”
Exactly! I was in California in 1981 almost a decade before ‘Global Warming’ and the National Park Rangers had signs at the entrance and throughout each National Park warning of human activity that could cause fires.
Various things can cause forest fires apart from the lightning strikes which no-one and no strategy can prevent. But the National Park Service knew from experience that parking a car with a hot exhaust in long dry grass, a carelessly discarded cigarette, a discarded clear glass beer bottle or beer glass or lost spectacles or a barbeque fire could all start a forest fire with devastating consequences.
On June 20, 2010, Gamecock and his son, vacationing in Arizona, left Flagstaff headed north to Sunset Crater. We noticed smoke near the peak of San Francisco mountain. At Sunset Crater, significant smoke started blowing over. We headed up to Wupatki National Monument. While viewing the ruins, the smoke got serious. As our destination was Grand Canyon, we headed west to get on US89. There were rumors of it being closed. But we made it to 89, and it was open to Grand Canyon Village.
As we approached Grand Canyon Park, I pulled over to look back. San Francisco mountain looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. We were 55 miles away, yet it still looked huge. This all happened in less than 4 hours.
It was called the Schultz Fire. 15,000 acres burned. Reputedly caused by an abandoned camp fire.
I saw a white Ford pickup truck coming down an access road in the area of San Francisco peak. Did he start it?
At Cortez, CO, two days later, there was a river of smoke in the air from the fire. 225 miles away.
The best explanation for what happened in the Maui wildfires was by Cliff Mass. https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-real-cause-of-maui-wildfire-disaster.html
Bloomberg on the other hand is working to sell green energy products made in China while burning massive amounts of coal and other fossil fuels. He’s increased his net worth 10-fold in the last 2 decades doing this. He needs to make clear he’s not working to save the world from runaway climate, he’s just trying to get richer.
This shows origin and progression of fire
Apparently there have been previous cases of arson reported from Maui, and in the last few years (according to a report on the “Daily Wire”.) There would seem to be multiple causes of the Hawaii fires, including: lack of proper maintenance of power lines; the fact that money was not spent on essential maintenance but rather a solar farm; lack of attention to firebreaks; irrigated farmland yielding to uncared for non native grassland; and possibly even arson by environmental lunatics; – the one thing certainly not responsible for the fires is the recent slight increase in global temperatures. The role of the media in this disaster and others, in ignoring the real reasons in favour of the “climate change” chimera, is an absolute disgrace, and is clearly making future loss of life more probable, in obscuring the real problems.
When Gutterres claimed – in hyperbolic language – that the Earth was on fire it was a signal to all the nutters with pyromanic proclivities to take up their matches and support the message. I would not be surprised to find that many were rewarded handsomely for their devotion to the cause.
Climate change cannot start fires. Any bozo at Bloomberg who thinks that a few extra degrees of air temperature will impact likely ignition is a moron.
And more often than not physics tells us that is dryness that results in high air temperatures not high air temperatures that cause dryness. If that were not true the tropics where solar insolation is maximum would be dry (not wet) and there wouldn’t be deserts just outside the tropics associated with the Hadley cells.
Not prepared to say you are wrong . . . but . . . .
Around here, the lower the humidity, the lower temperatures. Winter is characterized by very low dew points.
“…dryness that results in high air temperatures…”
ThinkingScientist is probably talking about subsiding air. Where this occurs* the upper air falls at a rate of about half a mile a day and can warm up by 15 to 20 F a day.** This does not affect specific humidity but it does reduce relative humidity. Whether this is relevant to Hawaii I do not know. I believe that it is usually humid there. The only time I visited it was very muggy!
* Because of convergence of upper-air currents.
** Like the Fohn effect. Two ultimate reasons: (1) The lower atmosphere around the descending air compresses it and (2) some potential energy due to the height of the descending air is turned into heat.
Give it a year or two, the local power company will be signing off on $multi-billion liability settlements. Naturally the media won’t be shouting so loudly about that.
They don’t have the money. Less than half-million customers.
From where/whom will Hawaii get power after the civil courts crush the power company?
The CCP will provide the Solar panels and the windmills, and ABB or Siemens will hook them all up–you and I will be paying for it, unless they use some of the Ukraine money, you know, just hold back the next ten $billion or so. Bob Peters can still get his 10%.
What would you expect from Bloomberg given he is a full member of the World Empire of Fascism.
See: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/22/bloomberg-finances-and-coopts-state-attorneys-general/
In pictures: Wildfire smoke visible from Scotland
Smoke from huge wildfires burning in parts of the Northern Hemisphere is believed to be behind unusual cloud formations seen in Scotland.
About 30,000 households have been ordered to evacuate homes in Canada’s British Columbia province, where almost 400 wildfires have been burning.
Fires have also been raging in the Canary Islands and Greece.
The Met Office and the BBC’s Weather Centre said clouds seen on Friday night were likely to include wildfire smoke.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72j3gem3d0o
« They begin with a fatuous statement that extreme weather is getting more frequent, something for which there is no evidence »
Why doesn’t the Independent Press Standards Organisation investigate this article ? I understand they have recently reprimanded IDS and The Telegraph for claiming there was evidence that the majority of children did not receive a good education when schooled at home. Apparently, there was no available evidence. So IPSO set a precedent . . . then the BBC and The Guardian would have to issue a correction for every fatuous statement they make about extreme weather . . .
IPSO can obviously rule against common sense findings, but not against anything that has no evidence but supports the ‘official narrative’
I’m unclear how IPSOS is qualified to decide on such things?
Covid killed our freedom; one is no longer allowed to be wrong. Or even “inaccurate.” In fact, one is no longer allowed to disagree with the state.
Government created the panic, then used it for a colossal power grab.
And if you asked any member of the government they would all agree, most fervently, that we living in a democracy.
I like your use of small d, democracy. You know, the Ukrainian kind; where you ban religions, incarcerate journalist, and “conscript” soldiers–the ones that cannot afford to pay-off their captors–by grabbing them off the street, democracy.
Peter, I have news for you regarding the Guardian. They do NOT subscribe to IPSO which is actually a purely voluntary organisation.
ico.org.uk/for-the-public/data-protection-and-journalism/complaining-about-a-media-organisation-that-is-not-a-member-of-ipso-or-impress/
Shouldn’t really come as a surprise considering the vile crap that the scum at the Graun come out with.
I personally consider the Guardian to be an illegal organisation.
Climate change is not just the latest lefty fad–it has become their religion. All religions have their rituals and dogmas. Climate Change demands obedience from non-believers by banning their home appliances and mandating expensive, unreliable, highly flammable EVs. I have heard it said, “There are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences either.” Like all religions, the heretics must be purged, full bell, book and candle–in public–as a warning to those who might question the dogma. The apparatchiks at Bloomberg have rung the bell, and opened the book to read the charges. The next step will be to snuff out the candle of those charged.
Paul – last night’s BBC2 Newsnight a piece about luvvie actors calling for climate change via the cutting of movie making’s carbon footprint by signing up to Equity’s “Green Rider” campaign. Kirsty Wark interviewed an actor called Fehinti Balogun who is also a climate activist . What a load of pretentious virtue signalling twaddle
Also covered by BBC news website and the usual suspects https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66581883
https://www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-policy/the-green-rider
Maybe more use of animation, AI and CGI and they can make films without the need for actors travelling to studios or on location… maybe even without any actors at all .
Watching my grandchildren playing various computer games on a 50″ TV it won’t be long before actors are no longer required
Movies are far more of a luxury than cars or flights. Let’s do away with them entirelyin the name of climate.
“…without any actors at all.” Now you are on to something. Well stated.
Bloomberg, like the rest of MSM are the climate alarmists propaganda unit – they long gave up investigative journalistic rigour and now simply pimp themselves out to their globalist masters in ever increasing hysterical hyperbole
Personally, I just find it hilarious and no longer reference any of them for unbiased fact, they remind me of the JPF in Monty Pythons Life of Brian, sat huddled in dark corners, plotting and making hysterical rantings that remain within their minute echo chamber
The real heretics in my view are the scientists who have sold out their field of expertise, in order to harvest grants and funding to spread the deceits of climate change, they have done more harm to science and humanity, they are the modern day inquisitionists
“they long gave up investigative journalistic rigour and now simply pimp themselves out to their globalist masters”
Correct. We are not their customers; we are their product. They seek not to inform us, but to deliver us to elite globalist masters, such as Klaus Schwab and his Wannsee Economic Forum.
When you start seeing the press spreading a well funded conspiracy theory of “space lasers” … you know some big business/government is trying to hide something, it this case most likely criminality.
Only someone committing a premeditated criminal act would have this campaign of conspiracy theories ready to distract us from the truth.
Energy Sources in the UK: Everything you Need to Know in 2023
https://greenly.earth/en-gb/blog/ecology-news/energy-sources-in-the-uk-everything-you-need-to-know
Energy when they’re talking about electricity
Mr. Scott Sceptic, Stephen K Bannon has a saying, “There are no conspiracy theories, but there are no coincidences either.” This tragedy screams abject government incompetence and dereliction, and I think that is what they are covering up. Oh yea, and the fact that the feckless mayor of Maui and the contemptuous governor are saying they will be taking the land, via eminent domain, to get it ready for Black Rock. There is that.
A conspiracy theory is a theory they don’t like.
“Conspiracy” being a prejudicial label declaring that the in-crowd doesn’t like it. They aren’t saying it is wrong; they are saying the illuminati don’t like it.
Ben, I concur. Very soon now, the Studios will be using AI to “write” any lines required to produce this drek, and the AI Robot actors will follow closely behind. My only question is, “Will the actor-robots be as petulant and whiny as the humans they are replacing?”
Surely, petulant and whiny is in the job description for actors and actor robots; along with an ability to opine on matters toally outside their intellectual bandwidth?
Well stated. Thank you for your reply, Wm Richard
Here’s some ironing:
In Diamonds are Forever, 1971, Willard Whyte was played by Jimmy Dean. Blofeld had taken over Whyte’s company. Blofeld had a machine that he spoke into and it came out in Whyte’s voice. AI envisioned.
FF. Jimmy Dean had a company, Jimmy Dean Sausage. They still make good stuff. Jimmy Dean does their advertising on TV (he has/had a distinctive voice). Yet Dean died in 2010. So fifty years later, they are faking his voice, again.
Is it AI? Is it a voice impersonator? Don’t think JDS will be telling us. The company with the folksy voice is owned by some corporate giant.
Energywise, How true. When you alluded to Monty Python, I assumed you would be going for the bit on, “The Ministry of Silly Walks” as all the purveyors of Green Energy are but subsidy harvesting, and their apparatchiks in the press lavish them with praise for their Brave and Bold stance on the imaginary threat of the Climate Grift.
https://www.london.gov.uk/mayors-around-world-meet-inaugural-partnership-healthy-cities-summit
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the World Health Organization (WHO), and Vital Strategies will co-host the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit with London Mayor Sadiq Khan on March 15, 2023. The Summit will bring together mayors and other city leaders from the Partnership for Healthy Cities global network to discuss strategies to combat the global burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries.
Founded in 2017, the Partnership for Healthy Cities is a prestigious global network of more than 70 cities working together to prevent NCDs and injuries. Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies in partnership with the World Health Organization and Vital Strategies, this initiative enables cities around the world to deliver a high-impact policy or programmatic intervention to reduce NCDs and injuries in their communities. Through the Partnership for Healthy Cities, local leaders around the world have enacted policies that are improving the health and safety of millions of people.
“the Partnership for Healthy Cities global network to discuss strategies to leverage people’s concerns with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries into actions to implement global government. Their first action will be to scare people into believing that noncommunicable diseases and injuries are a global burden. Then, they will ban ladders. Your falling off a ladder is a global burden.”
Fixed it. Sorta.
Gamecock figured out 50 years ago the best way to prevent injuries is to do nothing. The communist goal of driving people down to the lowest common denominator will certainly fix the ‘global burden.’
So, in the name of safety, they will ban everything. You are for safety, aren’t you? It’s for your own good.