Posts Tagged ‘wild fire’

Wildfires and Climate Change

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 09/6/2009 @ 9:41:41 PM
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There are no firefighters fighting the increasingly common mega fires in the American West who think global warming is a hoax.

“Ten years ago, if you had a 100,000 acre … [Keep reading >>]

Fire Fury in California

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 09/1/2009 @ 2:22:51 PM
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Firefighters fixed their attention on the blaze’s fast-moving eastern side where flames lapped at the foot of the vital communications and astronomy center of Mounty Wilson, and on the northwestern … [Keep reading >>]

Wild Fires: Santa Cruz, CA

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 08/13/2009 @ 6:51:16 PM
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2,000 residents have been ordered to flee ahead of a raging wildfire near northern California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, and one man said he had an “ominous feeling” as ashes … [Keep reading >>]

Fire Season Continues

Filed under: Environment — by Will Kirkland 05/6/2009 @ 9:04:00 PM
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Of course September/October in California are the most feared fire months — at the end of the long, hot dry summer but as today’s fire in Santa Barbara, and … [Keep reading >>]

Australian Fires Add to CO2 Load

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 02/15/2009 @ 11:03:12 AM
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Besides the immediate death (180) and destruction from the fires raging in south eastern Australia there is this:

VICTORIA’S bushfires have released a massive amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere … [Keep reading >>]

Australia Fire Toll Mounts

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 02/11/2009 @ 9:15:58 AM
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230 suspected dead; perhaps more. 7,000 homeless and living in a tent city. 4,000 firefighters still battling 33 blazes.

The Future is Now … [Keep reading >>]

Australia: Greatest Natural Disaster – Death Toll Mounts

Filed under: Environment — by Will Kirkland 02/9/2009 @ 8:17:10 PM
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The wildfires that have so far claimed more than 170 lives in Australia highlight vulnerabilities in a country where the population is spilling into rural areas already under … [Keep reading >>]

Australia Burning

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 02/7/2009 @ 11:00:55 PM
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While northern Australia is saturated by unprecedented rain the south is going up in flames, in the midst of a record heat wave. Victoria, in the far south east … [Keep reading >>]

Santa Cruz Mountains Fire

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 05/22/2008 @ 7:06:35 AM
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In mid May already.

Firefighters are evacuating residents near a wildfire that is burning out of control this morning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The California Department of Forestry and Fire … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Tom Paine

---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795


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Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal.


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