Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Sorry, Jerry Brown, Global Warming Is Reducing Wildfires



Sorry, Jerry Brown, Global Warming Is Reducing Wildfires
5/21/2014 @ 9:45AM
California Gov. Jerry Brown blames global warming and Republicans for recent wildfires in California, but objective scientific data show a decline in wildfires as our planet modestly warms.

2013 was one of the quietest wildfire years in U.S. history, according to objective data from the federal government’s National Interagency Fire Center. The 47,000 wildfires last year may seem like a very large number – and it certainly gives global warming alarmists like Brown plenty of fodder for misleading global warming claims – but the 47,000 wildfires was less than half the average number of wildfires that occurred each year in the 1960s and 1970s. Importantly, the Earth was in a cooling phase during the 1960s and 1970s when so many more wildfires occurred.

The unusually quiet 2013 fire season continued a long-term trend in declining wildfires. From 1962 through 1982, for example, at least 100,000 wildfires occurred in the United States every year. Since 1982, however, not a single year has registered 100,000 wildfires. During the past decade, an average of 73,000 wildfires occurred each year. During the 1970s, by contrast, an average of 155,000 wildfires occurred each year.
English: Photo of California Attorney General (and former California Governor) Jerry Brown (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The 2014 wildfire season, moreover, has been relatively quiet so far. The total number of wildfires is well below the 1962-2013 average, and is even below the average for the past decade. Even so, the below-average 22,000 wildfires so far this year give global warming alarmists plenty of opportunities to mislead the public about the scientific facts.

The long-term decline in wildfires reflects an ongoing improvement in global soil moisture and an ongoing decline in global drought.

A scientific study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Hydrology reports, “Evidence indicates that summer soil moisture content has increased during the last several decades at almost all sites having long-term records in the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank.”

Similarly, a scientific study in the peer-reviewed Geophysical Research Letters reports, “An increasing trend is apparent in both model soil moisture and runoff over much of the U.S. … This wetting trend is consistent with the general increase in precipitation in the latter half of the 20th century. Droughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a smaller portion of the country over the last century.”

Droughts and wildfires have always occurred and will always occur. While global warming is reducing the frequency of droughts and wildfires, global warming will not completely eradicate droughts and wildfires. They will continue from time to time despite their long-term decline. This allows alarmists and political responsibility-shirkers like Jerry Brown to blame global warming and his political opponents for the relatively few droughts and wildfires that still do occur.

Jerry Brown can invent his own political narrative but he cannot invent his own scientific facts.

Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown is the California state government governor, and Kathleen Brown’s brother.

Note: Kathleen Brown is Jerry Brown’s sister, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, was the California state government treasurer, and an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Ronald A. Klain was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, the chief of staff to the vice president for the Barack Obama administration, Albert A. Gore Jr’s chief of staff, is married to Monica Medina, and a trustee at the Third Way.
Albert A. Gore Jr.’s chief of staff was Ronald A. Klain, and the chairman for the Climate Reality Project.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Climate Reality Project, the Sundance Institute, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Cindy Harrell-Horn is a director at the Climate Reality Project, and a trustee at the Sundance Institute.
Mellody L. Hobson is a trustee at the Sundance Institute, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William M. Daley is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a trustee at the Third Way, was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, and a secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Monica Medina is the principal deputy under secretary for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and married to Ronald A. Klain.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Penny S. Pritzker is the secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Barack Obama administration, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,was the national finance chair, fundraiser for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, a co-chair for the 2009 Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign, a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama inaugural committee, the host for the Barack Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008, and Craig M. Robinson’s basketball coach for the children's team
Michelle Obama is Craig M. Robinson’s sister, and was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Rebecca M. Blank was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is the deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Barack Obama administration.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce.











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