One More Thing to Blame on Global Warming

Posted by Jim Spence on Friday, October 28, 2011
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KOB TV - The drought parching New Mexico and West Texas has long range climate scientists worried about an increase in catastrophic forest fires, especially in the Jemez Mountains where the largest forest fire in New Mexico history broke out this summer. They blame it on global warming - and more than a century of mismanagement of forests and fires. The Las Conchas fire broke out on June 26, when a dead tree fell into power lines in the Jemez. It devoured 43,000 acres on the first day, crowning through the treetops in densely overgrown forests where no surface fire had cleared space in the woods since the 1880s. The forests were all dried up by a dreadful drought, the worst since the 1950s. "In terms of precipitation the 1950s drought actually looks worse than the 2000s drought, but it was significantly cooler then," said Dr. Craig Allen, a research ecologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. "The warmer conditions in the 2000s mean that the water stress on trees is greater. It also means the fire season is longer and more severe." Read full story here: News New Mexico
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let's see. The government mismanages land it's not even legally allowed to own and a POWER LIME falls on a tree starting a fire AND its because of global warming. Dr. Allen needs to have his degree revoked.

October 28, 2011 at 9:26 AM
Anonymous said...

How desperate are these environmentalists? The next thing they'll be doing is filing a law suit against an oil company because a tree caught on fire when a power line fell on it. Naturally, it's their fault because IF the oil companies hadn't supplied energy resources to turn the power company's generators then there wouldn't have been any electricity going through the power lines when it fell because...global warming would never have made the tree so dry in the first place. It makes perfect sense to me. I should have gotten a law degree. At least then I would have been more fairly compensated for the intellect I contribute to society. At least then there would be one less protester on campus at UNM expending human hot air into the atmosphere. Imagine the number of tress that could be saved if there were fewer protesters. All we have to do is connect the dots, folks. There's a tipping point in every equation, just ask Dr. Allen.

October 28, 2011 at 4:23 PM

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