Comments on: Megafires in California Force Evacuation of 1 Million http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/24/wildfires-in-california/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Wonk Room » Global Boiling: Yes, CNN, Global Warming Is To Blame For Wildfires http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/24/wildfires-in-california/#comment-66311 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:18:41 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/23/wildfires-in-california/#comment-66311 [...] October 2007, blogs such as The Daily Green, Climate Progress, It’s Getting Hot In Here raised the alarm on the role of climate change as megafires forced the evacuations of one million [...]

]]> By: Nina Rizzo http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/24/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55260 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:14:34 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/23/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55260 These fires are burning close to home, both as a Cali resident and as a climate activist.

I used to live in socal and I’m now in the SF Bay Area. I have family in socal whom I call every night to ask if they’re OK (my high school was closed and my brothers can’t play outside).

I’m going to echo Richard:
Global warming influences the factors that combine to ignite forest fires, such as by increasing tree disease, drought and fueling stronger, warmer winds. Plus, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Forest Service, it looks like megafires will spread to norcal, so being in the north is no guarantee of physical protection.. Here’s a easy read:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2003-11-12-warming-wildfires_x.htm

]]> By: Sumner R Andrews Jr http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/24/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55239 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:17:34 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/23/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55239 We received our wakeup call with Katrina. We hit the snooze button. The Southwest drought has been dismissed as a natural 10 year cycle. The alarm has again gone off with the Southern states drought which means the south as a whole is drought stricken. Again the button is hit. Now we are facing the terrible terrible California fire tragedy. It is fairly obvious even to the common man that something is terribly wrong. Scientists are saying we may have only a decade left to turn back the effects of global warming before it becomes a runaway process. We need to develop a rapid response to climate change. The Global Open Source Initiative is such a plan
http://sandrewsjr.net/gosi/proposal/GOSI_Proposal.pdf . As a starting point in discussing a rapid response , the Initiative proposal should be placed in the hands of every presidential candidate, global leader attending the Bali Conference in December, local,state and national leader and most importantly concerned citizens with the clear message, “Do something! We don’t want our children to suffer for our inaction.” John Kennedy created NASA and eight years later we walked on the moon. Our time frames and capabilities are not much different from then.

Sumner R. Andrews Jr.

]]> By: Richard Graves http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/24/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55223 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:57:08 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/23/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55223 Arson may have started it, the drought and winds have made it into the terror it is. These fires are a latest string of mega-fires that have sprouted across the world this year. Global Warming ‘exacerbates’ disasters…it doesn’t create them.

]]> By: a high school student http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/24/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55205 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:42:48 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/23/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55205 yea as a person who will most likely have to evacuate, it is absolutely scarey. but people need to just calm down and think of what to do when the time comes. me myself, im going up north to bakersfield towards family. its actually RAINING ash. but it isnt climate change that caused this, its the arsons

]]> By: Will http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/24/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55191 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:39:43 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/23/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55191 With only a marginal and alas unavoidable change in temperature of 1C much of the central and western states look set to become desert. This is the first step in the process, and then after the fires comes the great dust storms.

Notice how the popular press haven’t made this connection with global warming, everyone rather wouldn’t know it’s their fault, there’s alot of people’s heads buried in sand.

]]> By: Gabriel Elsner http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/24/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55140 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:47:01 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/23/wildfires-in-california/#comment-55140 As a resident of Southern California the scale of these fires is absolutely terrifying. There is speculation by the Los Angeles County Fire Department that two of the fires in LA county may connect. This is one of the DRIEST years on record in Los Angeles. My prayers and thoughts go out to the families that were evacuated and I hope they return to their homes safely. God Bless our Firefighters out there and I hope we have enough National Guard troops still in California to help them.

As Phil said, we must put an end to climate change before these natural disasters get worse. Join us at Power Shift – it WILL be a historic event that will change the future of this country. See you all there.

-Gabriel

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