So we have floods, wildfires, and Satan in the White House. How soon does the plague of locusts arrive?
The insects return tomorrow. But that’s another story.
Never fear, westerners—once Trump ends DACA, the fires will go out.
Alt-AP: “Major US Ecoystems carry out threat of “fire and fury” owing to Trump Regime’s continued attacks on the planet.”
Where is Irwin Allen when we need him? But I’ll bet even he would have trouble topping reality.
Johnny Carson once said that the good thing about the mudslides in California is that they put out the wildfires.
Fire is an important reproduction mechanism for sequoias.
“The third and perhaps most important agent of seed release is fire. Hot air produced by locally intense fire and convected high into the canopy can dry cones, resulting in release of enormous quantities of seed over small areas-for example, 20 million/ha (8 million/acre) (17). This increased seedfall coincides both spatially and temporally with fire-related seedbed conditions favorable for seed germination and seedling survival (fig. 2).
Giant sequoia seeds are well adapted for wind dispersal. They are light (average 200,000/kg [91,000/lb]), winged, and fall in still air at a rate of 1.2 to 1.8 m (4 to 6 ft) per second. Winds common in late summer and winter storms in the Sierra Nevada can disperse seeds more than 0.4 km (0.25 mi) from the tall crowns of mature trees (16,36).”
So we have hell and high and high water. I’m pretty sure that all of these places don’t have gay mayors, so I’m waiting to see what Ann Coulter believes is a more credible reason than, you know, scientific explanations.
In other news, Sen. James Imhofe and Secretary of the EPA double down on climate denial and support boosterism for coal roller derbies. Huzza!