Comments on: An invitation to play the climate-change game https://writersontherange.org/an-invitation-to-play-the-climate-change-game/ Syndicated Opinion for the American West Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:26:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Sally Jobes https://writersontherange.org/an-invitation-to-play-the-climate-change-game/#comment-594 Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:30:04 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=8009#comment-594 I wondered about the figure of the tree death in California so I did a little research. California has at a conservative estimate 4 billion trees. So the death rate is less than 1% per year. It’s probably equally easy to find the rate of new growth as well that counters that. With that knowledge I’m questioning the hyperbole the author used and guess many of his assertions may suffer from the same exaggeration.

California suffers from the Smoky the Bear attitude toward fire. I know the song by heart as it was drummed into us as children. Cute, but deadly to the overgrown forest we now deal with. Equally deadly to the folks choosing to live in or near them.

]]> By: An Invitation to Play the #ClimateChange Game — Writers on the Range – Coyote Gulch https://writersontherange.org/an-invitation-to-play-the-climate-change-game/#comment-593 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:16:37 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=8009#comment-593 […] the link to read the article on the Writers on the Range website (Pepper […]

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