Correction Please
Politicians, Eco-activists, Judges Fiddle; Golden State Burns
Item: In the midst of wildfires in California, Time magazine (November 26/December 3 issue) stressed that the Golden State is “still reeling from a drought that killed off trees and plants earlier this decade, leaving acres of tinder behind,” saying that “long-term global warming promises to exacerbate the problem. ‘Things like this will be part of our future,’ California Governor Jerry Brown said at a Nov. 11 press conference. ‘Things like that, and worse.’”
Item: The London-based Economist for November 17 cited what it called the prime reason that “California has been besieged by flames.” The publication identified the supposed main villain (and updated Governor Brown’s prediction), saying that “the climate is becoming warmer. This has led to snow melting earlier, drier landscapes and a longer season when fires are likely to ignite. In western states the average fire season is 84 days longer than it was in the 1970s.”
Item: The New York Times for November 18, reporting on President Trump’s visit to the ashes of a site of a Northern California fire, faulted the president for repeating “his view” about poor forest management — calling this (in a bold-faced pull-quote) a “disputed claim.” The paper impugned the notion that “forest management — the partial clearing and cleaning of brush from forests — was partly to blame for the string of immense and deadly wildfires in recent years.”
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