On my trip to Canada last summer, at rest stops in Oregon you could hear fire coming, a snapping and crackling sound inside very dry winds. It was So Hot, you could almost do nothing but stand still. And then as that hot wind hit you, you could hear it, like millions of stick matches striking against dry brush in the nearby wilderness.
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Geologists say massive fires have been a natural process for centuries along the Pacific Coastline valleys. But in 2017 the natural Fire is encountering acres of housing and urban development to add to its fuels.
I felt it last summer, fires coming, it was creepy and scary and one of the reasons I felt so relieved once I got up four thousand feet and closer to the Truckee River and Lake Tahoe.
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This evening I went to YouTube for updates on the Thomas Fire near Santa Barbara and encountered, one after another, well produced videos claiming climate change has nothing to do with Forest Fires, where narrators are literally Sneering at Science as they read fictional claims.
So now, every time I encounter a wackadoodle saying climate change is a lie and the Fires are really Them shooting Microwaves at us (or lasers) I put this in their comments:
Report last April on Calif Fires gives decades of background and almost predicted what is happening now in Santa Barbara. This is Live Science. Learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHjtu6z7WfU
Who has time to produce videos that REJECT science and even sneer at it, literally you can hear the narrator sneering as they point out "waves" and "lines" they see from their laptop Somewhere. These YouTube videos that reject science make about 8 to 1 more NONSENSE available online than real reporting.
California should evacuate fire prone areas, permanently. Relocate several million people to hinterland areas with water and other resources. To me, as the drought and fires get worse, the responsible thing to do is warn people along the West Coast valleys to move. The ground water that fueled urban growth in California is gone now and will not be replaced anytime soon. Fires like this will happen again. I would move out if I lived in a suburb in a dry area of California, or eastern Oregon, to survive.
It's scary to me that the reason people won't move is they own homes in fire prone areas that can't now be sold. I don't think it's normal to own a home, humans have to be nomadic to survive.-ke
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