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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/08/15/ryan-zinke-blames-california-wildfires-environmental-terrorist-groups/Ryan Zinke blames environmental terrorist groups for severity of California wildfires
by Erin B. Logan August 15 at 6:31 PM
Wildfires strike California every year. But theyre getting worse, causing deaths and uprooting communities. But who is to blame for these increasingly destructive wildfires?
According to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, its environmental terrorist groups.
During a radio interview with Breitbart News, Zinke said that environmental terrorist groups are preventing the government from managing forests and are largely responsible for the severity of the fires. But fire scientists and forestry experts have said climate change is the main factor behind the problem.
Research shows that human-caused climate change is a primary factor behind the recent increase in fire severity. A 2016 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that the heat and drought brought about by climate change was responsible for doubling the amount of land burned in the western United States between 1984 and 2015.
There is a broad effort to deny the science of climate change and its links to the horrible wildfires in California, and its just not accurate, Leah C. Stokes, professor of environmental and political science at the University of California at Santa Barbara, told The Post. I dont think the scale of reducing fuel load is a realistic policy proposal that would magically stop all fires in the western United States. Forests burn, and it is going to get a lot worse unless we do something about climate change.
Environmental groups also took issue with the labeling of terrorist."
Zinkes inability to understand basic fire science is leading him to turn to dangerous and inflammatory quips, said Athan Manuel, director of the Lands Protection Program at the Sierra Club. We do think we need to do sensible forest management. But this should be driven by science and practicality. This does not seem be a priority for the secretary.
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Blame 'environmental terrorist groups' for severity of California wildfires, Interior secretary says (Original Post)
dalton99a
Aug 2018
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sheshe2
(83,772 posts)1. 'environmental terrorist groups' ?
Zinke is correct. I do blame them. He is the head of the 'environmental terrorist group' I blame HIM! He is the environmental terrorist.
2naSalit
(86,634 posts)4. Beat me to it!!
Kettle calling pot black...
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)2. It's climate change. No denying it.
Zinke should see my avocado trees in Los Angeles. We water. They thirst. No way we can water enough because it is about groundwater, not about a normal climate. We have too little water in California.
central scrutinizer
(11,649 posts)3. Two environmental terrorists were just pardoned by Drumpf
The Hammonds - arsonists who were the putative reason for the Malheur occupation by the Bundys
2naSalit
(86,634 posts)5. True that!