wildfires, Tag

From The Washington Examiner by Kevin Mooney | March 04, 2019 12:59 PM Taxpayer-subsidized, ratepayer-funded utilities that may be on the hook for billions of dollars in liabilities point to climate change as the major...

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin A new February 22, 2019 report was issued by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) which announces a plan that the state of California needs to implement to address...

Public Release: 4-Mar-2019 Study examines centuries of data to understand climate-wildfire links NOAA Headquarters Deadly severe wildfires in California have scientists scrutinizing the underlying factors that could influence...

Guest essay by Chuck DeVore In the past two years, wildfires scorched 2.9 million acres in California, including five of the state’s 20 deadliest fires killing 131 people. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown grimly...

Researchers at the University of Bonn used drill cores to trace back the fires of the past 600,000 years – favorable climate induced growth promoting larger fuel loads was the biggest factor...

U.S. officials have confirmed that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA just revealed that temperatures were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit...

Guest drive-by by David Middleton PG&E Could Shut Off Power For Millions To Prevent Wildfires February 7, 2019 MATTHEW S. SCHWARTZ Pacific Gas & Electric could shut off power to more than 5 million customers when...

Scott Morrison is trying to scare people about franking credits but seems blithely unaware people are already scared – about climate change

Here is an interesting interactive graphic that depicts perimeters of more than 100 years of California wildfires recorded by Cal Fire and the U.S. Geological Survey. The map below shows all the cumulative fires from 1878...

I knew it would be coming, and it has arrived. First, a reminder image of that fateful day. Google Earth Pro (free app) has updated the aerial imagery for Paradise, CA to show the results after the devastating Campfire of...

California’s Monarch butterfly population hit a record low in 2018 after dropping a whopping 86 percent from the previous year. According to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the total population has declined...

Jim Steele writes: I am excited to announce my local weekly paper the Pacifica Tribune has added me as a columnist. Every 2 weeks I will post my column “What’s Natural”. The publisher has 5 other papers in the SF paper...

From The Daily Caller 3:56 PM 12/31/2018 | Energy Tim Pearce | Energy Reporter California’s largest utility could face murder charges or manslaughter charges if found responsible for sparking recent, deadly wildfires...

Public Release: 26-Dec-2018 Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Tree rings tell the story of what’s happening physiologically as fire suppression makes forests more dense and less tolerant of drought, pests...

From The Daily Caller Trump Takes Steps To Prevent Catastrophic Forest Fires, Including More Logging 7:22 AM 12/24/2018 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor President Trump issued an executive order allowing...