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theo hopkins <thopkins@thopkins.demon.co.uk> wrote:


>Right now in Alberta, we're having monster grass fires in the middle
>of winter!!  

I have always been told that fire is part of the natural ecosystem of
boreal places such Alberta. 

Is the problem that people have moved onto land that is naturally
fire- prone?
-- 
theo hopkins
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Fire prone in freezing weather?  Not normally.  Nor have we ever had
18  forest fires in freezing weather.  At any rate, we got 3 inches of
beautiful snow today so everybody's quite excited.  It was an
interesting snow storm though.  It came along with thunder and
lightening, just like rain does!!!!  

By the way, the other day I mentioned about Russia having  minus 115
degree temperatures.  That was Fahrenheit, I believe.  It was -60
centigrade anyway.  I'm not good at the conversions.  Ever since Prime
Minister Trudeau converted Canada to the metric system many years ago,
most Canadians haven't been able to figure out which is what.  (A real
pain when you go grocery shopping and look at those metric scales.)
Do you know our home scales, rulers,  and car speedometers are still
in both conversions because Canadian's still can't figure things out?
That was another foolish political project that was a waste of
taxpayer money.

Getting back to weather, there sure have been some nightmarish weather
patterns around the world lately.  Americans sure got hit badly with
their floods and winds.   

Australia is experiencing some of the biggest fires ever.  Thousands
of hectares of land were burnt and many people were injured.  Did you
read about the 18 year old girl who's car got stuck in the mud?  She
panicked and ran from the car, and got burnt to death right away.  Her
car remained intact.  The most scary part was of that fire was that
10,000 sheep and their wheat crop were destroyed.  We might be paying
big bucks for wool and bread soon.

The head of the Word Wide Fund for Nature said more tropical forests
burnt in 1997 than at any time in world history.  The Director called
the fires a planetary disaster, claiming that 80% of the forest
fires were set deliberately, often by large multinational companies
clearing land.  Now  that's the most serious issue facing mankind
today, in my eyes -- people deliberately destroying the earth with
fire.   What can we do to discourage them?  To me, that's far more
important than emissions.

Other reports:

Two million hectares of forest were destroyed in
Asia.

Fires in the Brazilian Amazon are up by 50 percent
since last year.

Here's a cute one:  250 km winds in Guam BLEW DOWN equipment 
the measured wind speeds at the military Joint Typhone
Warning Centre.  The  Governer said it was one of the worst in Guam
history.  The damaging winds lasted 12 hours.

The bible revelations (as well as those of Nostradamus)  are coming
true, and there's nothing a bunch of politicians contemplating on how
to raise costs to cut emissions can do about it.

And speaking of cutting emissions, I wonder how many of those
politicians SHARED their airplanes with a full load of  passengers on
the way down to that conference?  I once heard that a single jet sent
out as much emission as 800 cars.-- Alleycat