"Robert J. Kolker" wrote:

Uncle Al wrote:

Horrible bull**** explicitly contradicted by observation. It is a
mark of the psychotic crank that it cannot be educated with literature
citations.


Al, your retorts are measured and quiet. No vitriol. Are you feeling
alright?

I'm having a pretty good time here. Thousands of acres about 40 miles
to the northeast are burning with 30-50 foot flames. It makes for
great TV. The sun rose deep crimson this morning, making everything
in the neighborhood look like it was in Hell. Enviro-whiners have
"protected" all the dead brush as a fragile and endangered
environment. Now it's payback time. We're talking hundreds of square
miles of fibrous resinous brush and dry wood piled almost ten feet
deep in some places. It's a firestorm and it's going ape****. All it
needs is 40 mph 5% humidity Santa Ana wind promised for this weekend.
The news is orgasmic with bulletins and special reports.

Threaded throughout the "protected" areas are huge upscale residential
communities where developers successfully bribed pauper rural city
councils to build. $Millions/day are being spent to protect, mostly,
$billions in wooden housing built inside a giant tinder stack.

Everybody will be severely threatened by their Housing Association if
they don't repaint everything dirtied by soot. Fast. Gotta maintain
those property values! It gets better... The heat drives resin into
the ground to form a water barrier. If it is a wet winter there will
be world-class flash floods to utterly destroy the (freshly painted)
houses.

In theory the burned land could be disked to break the seal and and
planted with grass to weave the mess together with roots after the
first light rains. Native stuff would kick in later in the year and
hold the soil in place long term. NO CAN DO! The whole area is
"protected."

I thus enjoy the delicious sight of $millions/day beings spent to
protect $billions of housing that will all be swept away by February
anyway - along with the native endangered Half-Blind Walking Fly and
the squatting but still endangered Patagonian Coughing Weasel. Pray
for record heavy rains.

--
Uncle Al
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