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Water Management in US south west, plays into fires etcetera - the Lake Tulare and historic California floods are a thing too....

Water Management in US south west, plays into fires etcetera - the Lake Tulare and historic California floods are a thing too....

Robbo,
Catastroplhyliacs - OMG! ITS SO CATASTROPHICALLY HOT THAT EUCALYPTUS TREES ARE GROWING EVERYWHERE!
Community Note: While this is true, that Eucalyptus trees are indeed growing everywhere it is not because of Mann Made Global Warming (tm) but because Local Government has encouraged their spread in to residential communities while at the same time making clearing away deadfall an illegal activity that could result in prison and or execution and then more prison time.

how about passing a law that any public official who fails to take steps to prosecute a known crime will stand with or in the place of the culprit in the crime.
That rang a bell for me....
My dealings with "The Ombudsman" (PHSO) in the UK and extracting evidence of criminal wrongdoing by officials at The Environment Agency in particular...

mailman,
The Aussie gum trees are pyrophytes; they're well adapted to fire, but don't *require* fire in their lifecycle. It just gives them an evolutionary advantage when fires come. I think the American redwood is another pyrophyte. There are other Aussie trees (e.g. some species of banksia) that only seed in fire. Oddly enough, they don't seem all that keen on getting burnt themselves, but I guess leaving a next generation on bare ground works ok for them.
I think the eucalypts are largely a scapegoat in the California fires. As for the NSW fires of summer 2019/20, the media did quite a lot to magnify them — fanning the flames as it were — because they fitted the catastrophic warming story so nicely. All soon forgotten with the COVID capers.
Thought this talk on the California fires got into it pretty well.
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Thanks for that. I widened its audience by one. Rather depressing. It expanded the scale of cynicism for me. Thought I was well towards the upper limit, but those Labour machine creatures leave me in their dust.
It might be time for the charge of treason to come back into vogue.
Alternatively and, although it goes against the grain to propose yet another law, how about passing a law that any public official who fails to take steps to prosecute a known crime will stand with or in the place of the culprit in the crime.
Would be a forceful assertion that every law is important. Might require knocking some anachronistic laws off the books. It might also get some pushback from the enforcers on the ever-expanding set of laws they supposedly uphold. Sounds ok to me.
tomo,
Was speaking on the phone with my brother yesterday afternoon when the power went out here. I told him and he said they'd had a blackout early that morning. He's about 30km away in SW Sydney. Rolling blackouts here already?

Your lights haven't gone out - it's your fevered imagination....
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1881087714004787545

This seems to need a wider audience
https://youtu.be/6egrJ5Vi0o4

Regarding the California fires, one thing I had forgotten about that contributed hugely to the Great NSW's fires was the types of trees that were allowed to invade residential communities and councils forcefully stopped people from clearing deadfall was Eucalyptus trees.
These trees are incredibly dangerous as they require fire as part of their lifecycle and because of that they are highly combustable!
And of course what kind of tree has spread through California like...pardon the pun, wildfire...our friend the Eucalyptus tree.
It seems leftists are quite incapable of learning any kinds of lessons that involves actual public safety that doesnt involving feelings and a desire to be oppressed.

tomo,
In Douglas Adams's B Ark strategy, he had the useless people sent away while the As and Cs stayed at home. It might be time for you to run the complement of that strategy. As and Cs leave Britain in the hands of the B Arkers. They're already running the place. Better to watch the disaster from outside.
I'll be even less active here than usual. Apparently a big lightning storm went through last night while I was out. Workstation and server computers both suffered injury. The router too. What I've been able to cobble together this morning is instructing me in patience. Browser is ponderous. YouTube slower still.
Just one of the lesser victims of "climate change".

America out of the Paris Accords.
America natural resources coming back on line.
America out of Davos.
All this one day one! :)