Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Wildfires ravage west coast of the United States | DW News" video.

  1. 1980s they were predicting a "Cooling".
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  2. @Chishio Chishio Oh, I agree, human action has consequences for the planet, and now the Galaxy, we have tons of our trash orbiting the planet, and sending more of it into the solar system. But it's ALL of us, including you, who are responsible. Don't blame abstractions, it's you and me, not some amorphous "THEM".
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  3. (◔_◔) you wish, that's your "wet dream", I live here, and the dream is real, and nothing like your fantasy life.
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  4.  @leonguyen896  I have a 1st Edition of this book and communicated with the author in the 1980s, it even made the cover of Time Magazine: "The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun?" by Lowell Ponte
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  5. (◔_◔) You love it, makes you FEEL so good to say so, I know.
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  6. @Chishio Chishio Always easy to blame and demonize the "OTHER", it's not an answer, but a personal excuse.
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  7. I'm at the beach in Southern California, it is foggy and damp, one of the coldest Summers in memory, it's because of a high pressure system to the East bringing up monsoonal moisture, so not hot and dry everywhere in California. "Ravage" is too strong a word, the fire in the Eastern Sierra is very rural. I love the area, travel Hwy 395 all the time, feel for the people, it is horrendous for them, but, as usual, DW pushes the emotional language for $$$.
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  8. They are not listening, that's why I was the only one to "like" your comment. They've come here for heightened emotion, not facts.
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  9. Very few structures in the area of the Tamarack fire, this is fuel that has not burned in sometime, and it will run with the wind it creates itself. Eastern Sierras are very rural.
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  10. @Chishio Chishio Sure, good luck to you.
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  11.  @DanA-nl5uo  Not so, the "First Peoples" burned the "natural" fauna which created the forests you call "natural" today.
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  12. Very few people live in the area of California that's burning, so they don't live there.
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  13. It's not the U.S., it's China and Australia.
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  14. Would be very effective, especially with lightening strikes.
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  15. Matthew 7:5 "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."
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  16.  @jebbo-c1l  Adaptable, not the end.
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  17. (◔_◔)
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  18.  @LuminousSpace  California is going EV, ok with me, but it's only transitional, and will not make a dent in the C02, we will all be adapting to climate change in the next 50 years, if predictions come true, and none of us have any idea what 100 years from today will look like. We'd be better rank prioritizing issues we can solve today, like disease and clean water. I like what the Copenhagen Consensus Center presents.
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  19. Sounds like Al Gore, he has a mansion in Lake Tahoe.
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  20.  @DanA-nl5uo  My kitchen and bathroom have some really cool stone, the limestone even have "fossils". The "stone age" did not end. and those carbon molecules will be of good use for some time to come.
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  21.  Pool Bal  The book is well notated and many scientists are quoted. He was reporting on what science was stating at the time, as was Time Magazine. You can say "No", but that's not factual. Oil company scientist were speculating on global warming in the 1970s, so even your "1980s" was inaccurate.
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  22. @Chishio Chishio It's not an academic argument, there's no empirical way to know, but you can choose which to live by, LOL.
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  23. @Chishio Chishio Sorry, above my pay grade.
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  24.  @ibrahimghibihisab4502  fire is good, fire is heaven, if you are cold, thank G_d for fire.
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  25.  @DanA-nl5uo  EV is transitional, not sustainable, but part of an evolution, like Steam trains, just temporary. FF are here for awhile longer, but it is the end of their epoch, but organic material like algae may be part of the future, too, lipids are everywhere, and seaweed captures more C02 than trees. LOL.
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  27. (◔_◔) You must be very young, your perspective on "time" is immature.
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  28. (◔_◔) Please cite the Pompeo quote (◔_◔)
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  29.  @DanA-nl5uo  If you change those 1%, the trickle down will be to the other 99%, and it's not "Who is John Galt", it will be "Where is John Galt". Pareto distribution. You conception of humans is a fantasy.
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  30.  @DanA-nl5uo  Fine, get 8 Billion people on the planet to do the same. Or even 100 million Americans. Nonsense.
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  31. (◔_◔) Time to stop inhaling, please.
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  32.  @jeffw8218  Yeah, they won't listen buddy, or tell them the indigenous people of the Northwest burned the forests for 100s of years and they look nothing like what they did when "First Peoples" arrived.
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  33. "Rake" is the term, and it is very effective, especially for lightening strikes, which these were.
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