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California’s massive and devastating wild-fires of Jan 2025 is reflective of the 3rd Reich’s Blitzkrieg of Poland in 1939; a rolling total devastation without mercy or reprieve.
The moderating news is the limited number of casualties compared to prior fires.
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WSJ: How the Left Turned California Into a Paradise Lost
Gavin Newsom promised to ‘Trump-proof’ the Golden State. If only he’d fireproofed it instead.
How the Left Turned California Into a Paradise Lost - WSJ
After the November election, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his plans to “Trump-proof” the Golden State. How about fire-proofing? Los Angeles’s horrific fires are exposing the costs of its progressive follies, which even wealthy liberals in their Palisades palaces can’t escape.
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Start with its environmental obsessions. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2019 sought to widen a fire-access road and replace old wooden utility poles in the Topanga Canyon abutting the Palisades with steel ones to make power lines fire- and wind-resistant. In the process, crews removed an estimated 182 Braunton’s milkvetch plants, an endangered species.
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The utility halted the project as state officials investigated the plant destruction. More than a year later, the California Coastal Commission issued a cease-and-desist order, fined the utility $2 million, and required “mitigation” for the project’s impact on the species. This involved replacing “nonnative” vegetation with plants native to the state. You have to chuckle at the contradiction: California’s progressives want to expel foreign flora and fauna but provide a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
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WSJ: California’s Wildfire Climate Excuse
Gov. Newsom tilts at carbon emissions, not fire mitigation.
California’s Wildfire Climate Excuse - WSJ
This ignores that California’s climate has long been variable with dry years following wet ones. The nearby chart from the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment shows precipitation in the state going back 130 or so years. There are wet and dry spells. The last couple of decades have had more dry years, but then so did the 1910s and 1920s when carbon emissions were far less than they are today.
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WSJ: End of a Climate Delusion
Amid California’s fires, voters wake up from the dream that green pork is a solution.
End of a Climate Delusion - WSJ
Here’s another concept: Climate change can exist and yet be an insignificant variable. In Southern California’s Mediterranean climate, anytime 100-mile-an-hour winds start blowing embers toward densely packed housing developments, a conflagration is certain. The only answer then is to have the manpower and resources ready to put fires out as quickly as they start.
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2019 Stop WildFires With Fire-Breaks
Roanoke Times, 7-20-2019, Pg N&W 1: Trump Admin proposed plan to slow wildfires by clearing swaths of land.
https://www.roanoke.com/news/nation/wire/plan-to-slow-western-wildfires-would-clear-strips-of-land/article_0c09fb96-2dbe-518b-88b9-711701e620fb.html
“The Trump administration is proposing an ambitious plan to slow Western wildfires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometers) of terrain in the West.”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/07/stop-wildfires-with-fire-breaks.html
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Pacific Palisades Reservoir Offline And Empty
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/01/pacific-palisades-reservoir-offline-and.html
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LA Fires & Roanoke Floods: Fish Won! People Lost Big!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/01/la-fires-roanoke-floods-fish-won-people.html
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