The Fire This Time
November 22, 2011 Leave a comment
If Only They Had Prayed Harder . . .
Governor Perry, you may want to re-think slashing the funding of your volunteer firefighters and Forest Service in Texas. Perry cut funding support for volunteer firefighters by 74%, and the Texas Forest Service budget by 34% this year, before requesting federal help with the worst fire season in Texas history. These firefighters are not getting paid in the first place – and he wants them to provide their own equipment, maintenance, and supplies?
As if the 2011 fire season – with over 21,000 fires in Texas alone – was not enough…
Is it warm in here, or is Texas burning again?
If this prediction of soil moisture “anomalies” is right, Texas – and most of the American Southwest, and all of Mexico – will be either a desert or engulfed in flames by the end of this century. (If the chart is wrong, it will probably be because it happens earlier.) You can find the entire IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Report here. But, as Joe Romm says on ThinkProgress.org, its main failing is that it inserts uncertainty where there is none. And as Bill DeBuys, author of A Great Aridness, said recently in Albuquerque, what the Southwest and Mexico are about to endure is not a drought.
Because you don’t say the Mojave is experiencing a prolonged drought. You say that the Mojave is a desert.
And where will 100 million Mexican refugees go?
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