First of a five-part series. The history of fire in the American Southwest is buried in a catacomb of rooms under the bleachers of the football stadium at the University of Arizona. Continue reading
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Why wood pulp is world’s new wonder material
THE hottest new material in town is light, strong and conducts electricity. What’s more, it’s been around a long, long time. Continue reading
Forest Service now tries to tamp out every flame
If lightning strikes in the New Mexico wilderness and starts a fire, the blaze would normally be little more than a blip on the radar of land managers who have earned a reputation for letting flames burn to keep forested lands from growing into a tangled mess. Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, fire management, forestry, weather superstition
Climate and Fire
According to model-based predictions, larger and more intense wildfires will increase as a result of CO2-induced global warming; Continue reading
Diseased trees new source of climate gas
Diseased trees in forests may be a significant new source of methane that causes climate change, according to researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in Geophysical Research Letters. Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, extreme extrapolation, forestry, natural gas, weather superstition
Can forest conservation and logging be reconciled?
Got it bass-ackwards, again. The only real question is whether logging can tolerate conservation and whether there is a role for conservation at all. Continue reading
Paul Driessen: Western wildfires – horrific, devastating … and unnecessary
New fire-fighting technology could help put them out. Why isn’t it being used? Continue reading
That’d be right – logging needed to protect… Northern Spotted Owl
Oh, this is rich. After using the damned owl to decimate logging and virtually kill the industry it turns out “logging, thinning, or other fuel reduction activities in areas with high fire risk would be more than offset by improved forest health and fire-resistance characteristics, the scientists said, which allow more spotted owl habitat to survive in later decades“. Continue reading
Amazing USDA Forest Service discovery! Burning trees release carbon dioxide!
Washington’s forests will lose stored carbon as area burned by wildfire increases Continue reading
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Barking up the right GM tree?
Transgenic trees could make better timber, but risk cross-pollinating native forests Continue reading
The worst wildfire season in decades is causing significant environmental damage
To an Australian America appears a very strange place. Down-Under fires are necessary to open seed casings and permit germination of various endemic plants. Fires are a natural mechanism of regeneration and renewal and they release various nutrients back to the biosphere. We don’t call it “damage” so much as “natural and necessary”. America’s “super fires” appear to be a product of unnatural absence of periodic fires and lack of anthropogenic activity reducing fuel loads. Continue reading
Tom Nelson: An extremely inconvenient graph
When climate hoax promoters try to convince you that today’s Southwest forest fires are “the worst ever”, show them this Continue reading
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Bryan Walsh: Climate Change Plays a Role in Wildfires—But Not the Only One
Can’t say I was expecting that – Walsh actually looks (slightly) beyond ridiculous global warming claims Continue reading
Colorado’s table was set for monster fire – “climate change”, of course
Snow hardly fell during winter in snowy Colorado. On top of that, the state’s soaking spring rains did not come. So it was no wonder that normally emerald landscapes were parched as summer approached, tan as a pair of worn khakis. All the earth needed was a spark. Continue reading
Western fires: Payback time?
The American West’s fire season has raced off to yet another ferocious start. But researchers suggest that the increasingly hotter, drier region is just beginning to pay off a “fire deficit.” Continue reading
Court: Can EPA regulate mud from logging roads?
The timber industry is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will maintain business as usual on controlling muddy water running off logging roads into salmon streams. Continue reading
No word on whether this is the last last chance, the pretty much last chance, the last chance this week…
Rio+20 seen as last chance for rainforest Continue reading
Uncertain future for international forest scheme
TO INDUSTRIAL NATIONS scrabbling desperately for ways to reduce their carbon debt, the idea was instantly appealing: invest in developing-world projects that either prevent a forest from being cleared, or replant an area that has been cleared, thus reducing global carbon emissions, and earn carbon credits in the process. Continue reading
Report: Wildfire risks around the world likely to change dramatically
Previous studies produced projections of changing fire risks for individual regions. A new study attempts to gauge future changes to wildfire patterns globally as the climate warms. Continue reading
As Politicians Debate Climate Change, Our Forests Wither
“North America is witnessing the largest pine-beetle epidemic in recorded history. Temperature rises are more than likely to blame, but why is it so hard to admit that?“
Well, for one thing it’s because as far as anyone can tell it’s situation perfectly ordinary. Continue reading
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