As Crews Battle Wildfires Across California, Gov. Jerry Brown Offers Grim View Of Fiery Future

[appalachiablue]

Source: Los Angeles Times

38 mins. ago.

As fire crews struggled to gain containment on more than a dozen wildfires raging across California Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown told reporters that large, destructive fires would probably continue and cost the state billions of dollars over the next decade.

"The more serious predictions of warming and fires to occur later in the century, 2040 or 2050, they're now occurring in real time," Brown said at a news conference at the state's emergency operations center outside Sacramento.

State officials said more than 13,000 firefighters are currently on duty, fighting 16 large fires that have burned a total of 320,000 acres and displaced more than 32,000 residents. Seventeen states have offered assistance to California during the last week, sending help from as far away as Maine and Florida. Though the state has the resources now to combat the large wildfires, fighting them and keeping people safe will become harder, Brown said.

"Things will get much tighter in the next five years as the business cycle turns negative and the fires continue," Brown said. Brown, who met with top fire and emergency response officials, said the state would spend whatever is needed to combat the blazes. But he said that current conditions are part of a long cycle that began with the rapid rise in greenhouse gases caused by human activity...More...

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>Today, Calif. Governor Brown and officials report on wildfires. Aug. 1, 2018.

[BigmanPigman]

1. He is right.

It is happening now, not later. Scandinavia, Siberia, Greece, and record high temps all over the planet. We can't stop it and it is too late to try to control it if 100% of the planet is not making a real, serious effort now.

[appalachiablue]

3. Amen! Check out Gov. Brown's presser today, just posted above.

[BigmanPigman]

4. He is a realist. That is who and what we need to run things

In every city, state and in this country. The GOP is literally killing the country and its citizens via Climate Change denial, no affordable healthcare, no living wages, etc.

[appalachiablue]

5. As predicted decades ago, Climate Change is advancing to horrible, undisputable levels.

"Climate Change In 'Real Time' California's Frightening Fires Are the Nightmare Scientists Long Predicted," July 31, 2018, Common Dreams.

Wildfires ravaging the state have "spawned bizarre pyrotechnics, from firenados to towering pyrocumulus clouds that evoke a nuclear detonation." As deadly wildfires continue to rage in California—destroying hundreds of homes, threatening thousands more, and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate—experts believe the blazes are part of "the new reality" that climate scientists have warned about for decades.

"This past month shows climate change for real and in real time," The Fresno Bee declared in an editorial published Monday. The ferocious California fires, the Guardian reports, have "spawned bizarre pyrotechnics, from firenados to towering pyrocumulus clouds that evoke a nuclear detonation.

>>These events are not aberrations, say experts. They are California's future... https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/31/climate-changein-real-time-californias-frightening-fires-are-nightmare-scientists



- Flames from the Carr Fire burn through trees & a road sign along a highway near Whiskeytown, Calif., July 27, 2018.

[hatrack]

6. If only there'd been some intellectual framework that let us predict things like this!

Some sort of system of objective, testable experimentation and confirmation that could, if properly harnessed . . . .

Hey! Look! Kim Kardashian made a sex tape!!!! OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!

[snort]

2. Fuck the the Space Force crap,

we need a Fire Force.

[Matilda]

7. We, the people, everywhere need to take action to force our governments

to stop pandering to corporate interests, especially in mining and oil, and start thinking of humanity.

We have similar forecasts in Australia, as our climate overall is very similar to California, but our Conservative government is too beholden to the big end of town to do anything meaningful about climate change. We are suffering severe drought in the rural areas, seas slowly rising in coastal areas, and our Great Barrier Reef, once considered one of the natural wonders of the modern world, is near death. And the politicians don't care, as long as the corporations continue to make donations to them.

In Australia, thinking people are in despair and very angry.

But what do we do?

[appalachiablue]

9. Sorry to know about Australia's climate change and conserv. govt.

I knew of the damage and decline of the Great Barrier Reef, but not as much about drought, sea level rise and upset people you mentioned. Thanks for the input, how can we move the people obstructing or denying the fierce reality now in our face.

[Bayard]

8. Our species seems bent on self-destruction

After we destroy all other species. By the time all people recognize this, will it be too late?

[appalachiablue]

10. It certainly seems that way; lately I don't have much regard

for many in the human race, sorry to say.