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President Obama Blames Texas Wildfires on Global Warming

By: Ben Howe (Diary)  |  September 26th, 2011 at 11:30 AM  | 

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The great green culprit is back, and this time it’s setting Texas on fire!  At least that’s what President Obama wants you to believe.

At a fundraiser in California Sunday (from which he apparently excluded the press), he seized the opportunity of one of the worst catastrophes in Texas history to score some political points.  If George Bush didn’t care about black people, Barack Obama certainly seems to have his issues with Texans.

“You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change,” Obama told donors referring to Perry.

As we all know, Global Warming Climate Change is incontrovertible despite many reputable scientists’ claims to the contrary.  But can the President’s claim hold water even amongst believers?

Well, as to what actually caused it, it’s still man’s fault, but not in the way President Obama thinks:

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – The cause of a massive, record-breaking wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,600 homes in Central Texas was “electrical in nature,” the Texas Forest Service reported on Tuesday.

Of course, that’s only what started it.  The conditions still needed to exist for it to become the massive record shattering fire that it is.  Many are pointing to drought conditions as the culprit.

HOUSTON (KTRK) – A change in weather conditions has authorities across Texas closely watching out for more wildfires.

The Texas Forest Service says it saw several small fires pop up Sunday, whipped up by increasing winds in the afternoon.

Those winds, combined with warm temperatures and dry air, have created extremely critical fire conditions.

For those subscribing to President Obama’s alarmist religion, this is the smoking gun.  Warm air? Global Warming!!!! Hello!??!?

Actually…no.

The culprit here is a natural weather event known as La Niña which is in fact nothing new to our planet.

The current fire problem in West Texas is being fed by dormant, warm-season perennial grasses throughout the high and rolling plains area he said. Last year’s El Niño event helped these grasses grow thick. After going dormant for the winter, and because of this year’s La Niña drought, it’s left plentiful fuel lying on the ground.

But surely La Niña events have increased because of global warming right? Don’t they have something to do with warm air?  Well, yes, they do.  However, that doesn’t quite fit the model either since, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there has not been any notable increase in this type of weather activity over the course of our fossil fuel consumption:

Lan Niña events between 1950 and 2011:

 

I’ll grant you that whether a weather event increases or decreases, global warming cultists will attribute it to their alarmism of choice.  So one would easily guess that the big boys at the NOAA are still blaming it on that right?  Actually, not really.  The NOAA’s own FAQ section makes clear that there is no scientific basis for believing that La Niña is a result of man-made climate change (emphasis mine):

Q:What is the relationship between El Niño/La Niña and global warming?

A:The jury is still out on this. Are we likely to see more El Niños because of global warming? Will they be more intense? These are the main research questions facing the science community today. Research will help us separate the natural climate variability from any trends due to man’s activities. We cannot figure out the “fingerprint” of global warming if we cannot sort out what the natural variability does. We also need to look at the link between decadal changes in natural variability and global warming. At this time we can’t preclude the possibility of links but it would be too early to definitely say there is a link.

Certainly it’s too early for science to declare a link; too early for victims of the fire to declare a link; too early for the Texas Forest Service to declare a link.  But for President Obama at a fundraiser that costs $35,000 per plate in the global warming alarmist capital of the world?  It’s not too early at all.  In fact, it’s right on time.

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  • msctex

    . . .until these people are out of power and the issue just fades away, as did the imaginary catastrophic Global Cooling of the 1970′s. If Progressives had found a way to blame the fires on Bigfoot, in a manner that managed to gain sufficient traction in the culture through the Media, we would be in the same position: arguing against an imaginary impetus, with limitless potential for causation.

    It really must be easy work if you can get it.

    • chbroussard

      if he’s a Republican, and since he’s from the Northwest, he’s probably a Democrat. Amazes me every day how many people still fall for Progressive BS.

      • msctex

        . . .long before the white European invaders set their first Imperialistic feet upon it, living a vegan lifestyle in the forests. He has recently been forced to migrate south due to Climate Change. If this seems at all counterintuitive, you would be wise to leave these things to the Scientists who discover them, lest you stand in the way of true Progress.

        Part of being a Progressive is a keen understanding that things which fly most directly in the face of logic and Reason are so often what people most want to hear.

    • Next93

      The difference between “climage change” and [global cooling, the great overpopulation scare, acid rain, nuclear winter] is that no one figured out how to use those “crises” to generate wealth for politically well-connected speculators and power for the finacially well-connected politicians.

      Al Gore and his cronies are never going to give up the dream of making a fortune by commoditizing third-world poverty.

    • gritsandall

      liberals will blame anything no matter how ridiculous – and their mindless drones will accept it if it is nice and emotional and insupportable. Arsonists must be affected by global warming the way werewolves are stimulated by the full moon. It gets hot so the arsonist is compelled to go out and start a fire. Many times, fires get out of control because of regulations enforced by environmentalists who refuse to allow thinning of trees and underbush, thereby making plenty of fuel for the fire to spread.

  • izoneguy

    Where they have wildfires every year.

    But I guess the big difference is that Gov. Jerry Brown
    and much of the California population believe in Global
    Warming – so they have a scapegoat to heap all of their
    problems on.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    Louis B. Safien once claimed someone was a gross ignoramus. And hypothesized that he was therefore 144 times worse than a regular one. Right now Einstein’s Theory of PSecial Relativity may or may not be completely settled science (at least not when you talk nuetrinoes). This latest demogougery of Global Warming is typical of the anti-scientific attitude of Democratic Party politicians.

  • keysconservative

    is due to a natural occurring weather event. It’s called SUMMER!

    • sunkgleska

      keyconservative you are a “master of the obvious”….well said
      on the other hand bho is “oblivious as the master”
      nothng more nothing less…YUP

    • chbroussard

      nt

    • davesinsanantonio

      fires in Texas that are causing global warming, not the other way around. But, then, he seems to have most of his other “facts” backwards as well, and his policies therefore are all backwards too.

      (Now for the disclaimer–you are correct. But, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to tweak the nose of the CIOTUS [Chief Idiot of the United States].)

    • ag8tor

      record breaking heat this summer and massive wildfires…NOT! I guess the global warming thing only applies in certain places. Seems if it was “Global” you would encounter fires everywhere. Of course the political fires are never ending. As long as the libs can make a point (and a buck) of this foolishness, it will continue no matter who’s in control in DC! The libs have to keep pandering to the left-wing loons to hold on to whatever base they might have.

  • powertothepeople

    from any political or religious sway uses the word Climate change or any variant of the same in order to push this ignorant pseudo science, I no longer consider them to be worthy of my time or energy. They simply slide into my own personal list of morons and stay there till they renounce the silliness.

  • sunkgleska

    HEY BARACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Ever remember in grade school in the USA ( I believe this is 5th grade stuff,NOTE TO SELF: check with Foxworthy ) when they was teachin’ ’bout that “ice age” stuff, for thousands and thousands and thousands of years, and how after the “ice age” the earth would go through thousands and thousands etc,etc.etc years of “global warming” and then it would go back to “ice ages” and then back to “global warming”?????
    I gotta hand it to Barack, you are a consumate “snake oil salesman” and your crowd is a mix of “ignorant,lack of learning” and just “plain stupid”.
    CONVERSATION between two wooley mammoths:
    First mammoth tells the second mammoth. Barack is gonna fix this “global warming”.The second mammoth says: you are ignorant because if you had paid attention to the cave paintings you would know that this has happened before!!!
    WAIT A MINUTE…I must apologize to you Barack, because you could not possibly know this Weather History because I forgot that you did not go to 5th grade in the USA
    nothing more nothng less…YUP

    • Next93

      N/T

      • ag8tor

        Al Gore. What’s your point?

    • davesinsanantonio

      ignorance and stupidity is that ignorance is curable.

      But, of course, you have to be willing to take the medicine.

  • gjohnson

    Please explain/edit/add (whatever you can do) to explain that graph better. I see what your saying or trying to say, and I saw the link to NOAA, but maybe if you listed a few events that actually coincided with those dates?

    Just a few examples that coincide with the dry spells on the NOAA link you provided.

    The Great Forks Fire of 1951 in WA.
    Summer of 1957. Alaska. Record was for 1957 when 20,439 km2 were consumed by fires until the summer of 2004, when a total area of 27,200 km2 burned.
    April 1963 in New Jersey
    1965 interior Alaska wildfires
    1977 Auburn, CA wildfires

    And so on, and so forth…..

    See, liberals think they can control or prevent things that are guaranteed to happen. We cannot control mother nature. Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.

    Excellent write-up though!!!! The leftist propaganda machine is on at full throttle right now and we have to fight back my friends!!

    • Ben Howe

      In the post there’s a link to a wikipedia page about La Ni?a and towards the bottom is where I got the chart and it’s source was listed as the NOAA chart that I linked to.

      • gjohnson

        I saw that, but just wanted to add some wildfire events anyways. Not meant as a knock on the story. Just thought it would seal it even more to show how these fires are natural causes, and not from Al Gore.

        The truth is really hurting the liberals right now. You can tell, because they are on full sensitivity alert. Topics on everything and anything are sensitive. We had all better practice our mole hunt debating skills. When they try to change the topic, you cannot allow it!

        • davesinsanantonio

          than their lies about us hurt us. Our best weapon against them often is to quote their own words back to them. But, since they will lie that those weren’t their words, best to use a video of them saying it, or have their book, or a copy of their op-ed nearby. Of course, even this is not foolproof, because they are such consummate fools and liars. I once saw an interview of Barney Frank where he denied he said something even after watching a video of himself saying it. Lord, protect us from such evil minded fools.

    • gjohnson

      “Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice” is a Will Durant quote btw…

    • LeaveMeAlone

      droughts being somewhat of a fact of life in Texas over the years. I did a quick search – lo and behold, the Texas State Historical Association has a page about the historical occurrence of droughts at http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ybd01

      Maybe it’s just my interpretation, but it doesn’t look like this year’s drought is anything significantly unusual.

      • pttx333

        personally tell you that the drought we are going through now is the very worst one that I’ve seen since the early 50′s when I was a child, and I remember it well. But it is cyclical – not for one minute do I believe in global warming as albore tells the story.

        Now, if we are in La Nina now, when is El Nino going to come back? Boy, we’ve even been praying for a hurricane here on the Gulf Coast. ;-)

      • bk

        For instance, check out the image here. You don’t even make the chart unless you’re at least “abnormally” dry, and nearly the entire state is 5 levels past that, which is as high as the chart goes.

        Or you can find info related to central Texas here. A sample:

        The 11 months from October 2010 through August 2011 have been the driest for that 11-month period in Texas since 1895, when the state began keeping rainfall records. This summer in Texas has been the hottest in the country’s history, according to the National Weather Service.

        So yeah it gets hot and dry here, but not THIS hot and THIS dry for THIS long.

        • pttx333

          I just wonder when it will end! Keep watching for tropical stuff and all of it steers clear of the Gulf. The city of Houston has an average of 1,000 water main breaks per day, and the short cul-de-sac street where I live in a bedroom community has had 3 breaks in the last 2 months – one in my driveway! It is truly a disaster.

          My daughter drove down to see me from a small Hill Country town where they live, and she said the entire drive was devastingly dry and burned from the sun and heat. It will take a long, long time to recover once the rains return.

          And then we have Dear Reader who laughs and makes jokes (in his scattered “brain” it is a joke) about what we are going through. I have two words for him – “Damn you.” I know that isn’t PC, but do I look like I care? ;-)

        • gjohnson

          and all, but geologically speaking

          116 years(1895-2011)/4.54 Billion =

          2.55506608 ? 10^-8% of time

        • gjohnson

          and all, but geologically speaking

          116 years(1895-2011)/4.54 Billion =

          2.55506608 ? 10^-8% of time

          or

          0.0000000255506608%

          • bk

            who said nothing seemed unusual. What we’re seeing is the worst of what has ever been recorded, so clearly it IS unusual. That doesn’t mean it’s due to man (I figure for the most part it’s not), just that it’s worse than anyone alive has seen in their lifetime. I was just trying to correct that, not sing the praises of Al Gore.

          • gjohnson

            Ahem, but who said i said you said nothing was unusual. :)

            It is unusual relatively speaking, but all I am saying is as far as absolute times goes, we just don’t know. I think we are in violent agreement here that it is unusual, but since we don’t know what happened the other 99.9% of time and can only speculate, I think we can both agree to disagree with global warming buffoonery.

  • ayhr86

    The lies of Newsweek and TIME finally reached the presidents lips.

  • cacharlie

    is how some people buy into man made global warming and big bang/evolution theories and such as “gospel” while fearing any hint from mother nature of divine power.

    How sad to see hope for the best become so stunted that one may refuse the comfort of trusting in something greater than oneself. Fortunately, those who look beyond their own fears can see new generations rising to the task of separating the wheat from the chaff.

  • darl444

    because Obama continues to have a huge Carbon Footprint with all of his travel using Air Force One. Clearly the President wouldn’t use transportation that is causing Climate Change. If he truly believes, when will he start leading by exampe, and reducing his carbon footprint. I’ll believe he believes when Air Force One is grounded, and he starts using public transportation.

  • hotnike

    He is not blaming it on Bush.

  • wembeley

    Redistribution of warmth.

  • Justin Spagnolo (standardcandle)