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Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by 
Checkmate!  In article <pmphl0$d3i$1@gioia.aioe.org>, 
melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie says...


> 
> On 9/5/2018 4:42 PM, Checkmate wrote:
> > Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by
> > Checkmate!  In article <pmpece$831$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
> > melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie says...
> > 
> > 
> >>
> >> On 9/5/2018 4:25 PM, Checkmate wrote:
> >>> Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by
> >>> Checkmate!  In article <if1uod55c6sk42983rlqmg1b8lm1aeqrb4@4ax.com>,
> >>> greghall@yacht_maester.fake says...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 11:02:29 -0400, kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> As <...> Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
> >>>>> toured California's largest wildfire on record,
> >>>>> he proclaimed that fires have ?nothing to do
> >>>>> with climate change.?
> >>>>
> >>>> He's correct because it has been proven that
> >>>> it's tree hugger liberal policies that resulted in
> >>>> legislation that prohibits tree trimming and
> >>>> removal that is the actual cause.
> >>>>
> >>>> It requires all sorts of permits which are almost
> >>>> impossible to obtain to even be able to trim trees
> >>>> and brush back from a residence so it doesn't
> >>>> go up in flames in the event of a forest fire.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, there is a stupid liberal prohibition against
> >>>> even removing deadwood and brush on public
> >>>> lands which further reduces the chances of
> >>>> extinguishing or controlling the spread of forest
> >>>> fires.
> >>>>
> >>>> Again, it's a case of you ignorant, feel good,
> >>>> libtard tree-huggers doing more harm to the
> >>>> forests than good and then attempting to
> >>>> blame it on somebody or something else.
> >>>>
> >>>> FAIL!  Chickens coming home to roost.
> >>>>
> >>>> <guffaws>
> >>>
> >>> It turns out that many, if not most, of the California fires were set by
> >>> arsonists.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, they can't prosecute PG&E for lighting fires with broke
> >> power lines so they just have to go with unspecified arson.
> > 
> > Nice spin and denial, but I read about one case where they arrested a guy
> > who had made threats a week before the fire started, and all of his
> > neighbor's homes were burned, saving his.  If you want to blame all those
> > fires on power companies, it's not a global warming issue.
> 
> I went looking for arson arrests.  Looks like there might be two real 
> ones.  Some of the arrests seem to be based on very little actual 
> evidence beyond "seen in the area".
> 
> On the other hand, there's this:
> 
> <https://calfire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/newsreleases/2018/2017_WildfireSiege_Cause.pdf>
> 
> It the vegetation wasn't crispy dry from drought, it's quite likely that 
> the fire wouldn't spread.  It was just a couple of years ago on a 
> severely windy night that a powerline got to arcing to a spruce tree a 
> few houses down.  The lights were a-flickering, even.  So, after a 
> while, a fire truck showed up, and then an electric company truck showed 
> up and me and the neighbors all went out to watch. Then they snipped the 
> branches away and everything was OK and there was no forest fire.

Search "Holy Jim Fire" and then at least one of the Northern California 
fires that eventually all merged together.

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Ignoring climate change puts public at risk kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-04 11:02 -0400
  Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-09-04 11:16 -0400
    Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-09-04 10:58 -0500
      Reckless living/breeding. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-09-04 10:29 -0700
    Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Checkmate <ricksabian1@gmail.com> - 2018-09-04 11:33 -0700
      Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2018-09-04 14:58 -0400
        Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-09-06 13:23 -0700
          Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2018-09-06 21:16 -0700
  Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk "Sir Gregory Hall,  Esq." <greghall@yacht_maester.fake> - 2018-09-05 14:36 -0400
    Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Checkmate <ricksabian1@gmail.com> - 2018-09-05 13:25 -0700
      Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2018-09-05 16:30 -0400
        Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Checkmate <ricksabian1@gmail.com> - 2018-09-05 13:42 -0700
          Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2018-09-05 17:25 -0400
            Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Checkmate <ricksabian1@gmail.com> - 2018-09-05 16:12 -0700
              Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk "Catalina" <Catalina@beach.sun> - 2018-09-06 15:35 -0400
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                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-09-06 20:44 +0100
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                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-09-06 21:49 +0100
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                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-09-06 22:32 +0100
                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk % <persent@gmail.com> - 2018-09-06 14:37 -0700
                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-09-06 22:41 +0100
                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk % <persent@gmail.com> - 2018-09-06 14:43 -0700
                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-09-06 21:26 +0000
                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-09-06 22:38 +0100
                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Libtard <libtard@sandernistas.edu> - 2018-09-07 01:49 +0000
                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Janithor <Janithor@comcast.net> - 2018-09-06 13:23 -0700
              Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2018-09-06 16:39 -0400
        Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-09-05 17:27 -0500
      Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2018-09-05 20:35 +0000
    Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-09-05 21:22 +0000
      Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Checkmate <ricksabian1@gmail.com> - 2018-09-05 16:10 -0700
        Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-09-05 21:37 -0500
          Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-09-06 03:09 +0000
            Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-09-06 10:42 -0400
              Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Your Friendly Neighbourhood Puppy Whistle Holder Emeritus 🐶笛 <root@127.0.0.1> - 2018-09-06 09:45 -0500
                Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-06 12:23 -0400
              Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-06 12:15 -0400
          Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-09-06 10:40 -0400
            Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Your Friendly Neighbourhood Puppy Whistle Holder Emeritus 🐶笛 <root@127.0.0.1> - 2018-09-06 09:51 -0500
            Re: Ignoring climate change puts public at risk Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-09-06 21:13 +0000
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