Comments on: Russia’s Fires Caused In Large Part By Forest Mismanagement

By: Chris F

Chris F — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:23:10 +0000

AGW proponents were also very quick to jump on AGW as the cause of the catastrophic bushfires in Feb 2009 in Victoria, Australia.

A subsequent Royal Commission (exhaustive inquiry) has reported in the last few weeks and completely ruled this out.
Thanks for this. I was getting ready to look into what happened with that. -PG

By: Brian H

Brian H — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:34:19 +0000

I wonder if the issue that generated so much heat in NA applies there. If you suppress small fires, you let undergrowth proliferate, to the point that when a fire occurs it is hot enough to damage or kill mature trees and sterilize the soil. If you are unfamiliar with the controversy, Google “Let it burn”. :-)

By: DirkH

DirkH — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:55:16 +0000

No, Goldammer’s right. Google for it, i don’t have a link handy, but the fact is that in 2007 Putin’s government terminated the ground-based fire guard system that had lots of watchmen on the ground, checking for fires and alerting firefighters as fast as possible; replacing it with a satellite based system and responsibilities for private owners of land. Now, for the private owners, they knew that in Russia, they wouldn’t be held accountable for failing to adhere to the regulations – holding the private sector accountable is not exactly the core competence of Putin’s government.

That’s how it unfolded… it’s not evil capitalism, good communism… i think it’s about shades of corruption.

By: R. de Haan

R. de Haan — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:15:30 +0000

Yet another example of blatant propaganda designed to put people on the wrong foot.

Communist Regimes are good, capitalism is bad.
Hot weather = climate, cold weather is “just weather”.

Today Sat1 news presented a scandalous news report about the weather extremes caused by “Klimawandel” responsible for huge food shortages and price hikes, aslo in Germany.

These guys should be put behind bars.