{"id":1850,"date":"2015-11-13T16:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2015-11-13T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:43:45","slug":"global-warming-doesnt-exacerbate-wildfires-obamas-policies-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2015\/11\/13\/global-warming-doesnt-exacerbate-wildfires-obamas-policies-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Doesn\u2019t Exacerbate Wildfires, Obama\u2019s Policies Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/11\/fire3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1851\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/11\/fire3.jpg\" alt=\"fire3\" width=\"660\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/11\/fire3.jpg 660w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/11\/fire3-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertarianrepublic.com\/global-warming-doesnt-exacerbate-wildfires-obamas-policies-do\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Libertarian Republic<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nNovember 12, 2015<\/p>\n<p>by Andrew Follett<\/p>\n<p>Scientists and lawmakers are placing the blame for recent wildfires on President Barack Obama\u2019s policies, not global warming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur nation\u2019s forests are sick and flammable, but they don\u2019t have to be. Proper management would increase their resilience to wildfires.\u201d said Julia Slingsby, Press Secretary of the House Committee on Natural Resources to the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cUnfortunately, radical environmental groups are hold our nation\u2019s forests hostage. The President should move beyond forums and solve the wildfire problem by supporting the Resilient Federal Forests Actwhich was passed by the House this summer. This legislation stops lawsuits which derail forest management and treats the real cause of wildfires, the sick state of our nation\u2019s forest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration released a wildfire prevention plan Tuesday that blamed global warming for worsening fires, but environmental lawsuits and Obama\u2019s own policies, not global warming, have made the recent fires worse these experts contend.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists who study global warming and fire behavior doubt the link between recent wildfires and global warming. University of Colorado climate change specialist Roger Pielke Jr. even told the Los Angeles Times in October that other Democrats, specifically California\u2019s Governor Brown, is engaging in \u201cnoble-cause corruption\u201d to make a political, rather than scientific, case against global warming. Pielke goes on to say that attempts to attribute recent wildfires to climate changes goes against the findings of scientists. <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertarianrepublic.com\/global-warming-doesnt-exacerbate-wildfires-obamas-policies-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Libertarian Republic November 12, 2015 by Andrew Follett Scientists and lawmakers are placing the blame for recent wildfires on President Barack Obama\u2019s policies, not global warming. \u201cOur nation\u2019s forests are sick and flammable, but they don\u2019t have to be. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2015\/11\/13\/global-warming-doesnt-exacerbate-wildfires-obamas-policies-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 11:31:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}