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Watching the news lately, you’d be forgiven the impression the world is on fire. Of course wildfires are seasonal – as I duly noted just weeks ago in “Two-Headed Hydra of Climate Change Has California Burning, New York Flooding,” on July 13. But the devastation they’re causing is becoming increasingly apocalyptic. Here is how CBC… Read more.
Wildfires have been ravaging the west coast for weeks. During that time, Trump golfed, held campaign rallies, and tweeted ad-nauseum. But, until this week, he found no time to even mention the devastation unfolding there. The fires have charred over 3.2 million acres and destroyed about 4,000 structures in California, killing at least 22 people. …… Read more.
Surely the wonder is that California always has so much land to burn. And, is it just me, or do you also wonder why people continually tempt Mother Nature by building homes where she clearly intended only trees to grow…? Indeed, I don’t think she could have made her contempt any clearer than when she… Read more.
I’ve been lamenting the normalization of apocalyptic wildfires for years in commentaries like “Wildfire Redux: California Burning … Again,” October 25, 2007, “Texas Is Burning,” September 7, 2011,” and “California Burning: ‘The New Normal’?” August 2, 2018. More to the point, in “Wildfires Rivaling Hurricanes,” October 10, 2017, I alluded to the way climate change… Read more.
Here is how I began a commentary on the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States this season: No doubt this hurricane will leave a lot of devastation in his wake, which will likely include more (preventable) casualties. But it’s important to maintain some perspective. For example, it might be helpful to… Read more.
I’m on record observing that wildfires are becoming as menacing to Western states as hurricanes have always been to Southern states. Never mind that far too many of these fires are ignited not by Mother Nature, but by human beings. Of course I always feel sympathy for those who lose their homes, to say nothing… Read more.
It never ceases to amuse me how doomsayers invariably point to clusters of natural disasters (like the one we’re experiencing this year) as signs either of the biblical end times or, more ominous, of the self-fulfilling prophecies of global-warming alarmists coming true. For the truth of the matter is that since time immemorial Mother Nature has… Read more.
