Have the California Wildfires already been forgotten, not to mention last season's hurricanes? And that's only the beginning of what's to come.
Only the beginning of what's to come? That sounds very alarmist, Bart.
Don't you mean,
'That's only a continuation of what's happened in the past?'It's this aspect of misinformation which is the potentially disastrous component of the drive towards expensive renewable energy, the false impression created by the media that every extreme weather event is a record-breaking event caused by AGW which in turn is caused by rising CO2 levels.
The historical and geological records tend to show that modern extreme weather events of any type, whether flood, drought, hurricane or forest fire, have been just as bad, and often worse in the past.
Even the current forest fire in California, in terms of acreage burned, does not appear to be the worst on record, despite almost every media report claiming that it is. The acreage burned in this current fire in California appears to be 281,000, yet in year 1889 there was a fire in California that covered at least 300,000 acres
"The Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 (previously called the Great Fire of 1889) was a massive wildfire in California, which burned large parts of Orange County, Riverside County, and San Diego County during the last week of September, 1889. It was possibly the single largest wildfire in the recorded history of California, burning at least 300,000 acres (1,200 km2) of land."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_FireIn order to find a solution to any problem we have to correctly identify the cause of the problem. I have no objection to research and development into alternative supplies of energy. Energy is the lifeblood of all human activity. We can do nothing without it. We should exploit all sources of energy in the cleanest and most efficienct manner that our technological development allows.
The real problems we face are due to our apparent inability to learn from history, whether it's the history of incessant, continuous wars and religious conflicts, or the history of extreme weather events in a particular area.
We seem to mindlessly build houses in flood plains, or areas frequently subject to hurricanes, or forest fires, and then blame human-induced climate change for the next extreme weather event that destroys our home, deluding ourselves that the extreme weather event was unprecedented, the worst on record, caused by rising CO2 levels, and that such destruction can be prevented in the future by reducing CO2 levels.
How foolish!
