Comments on: Warming climate triples northern fire frequency

Black spruce forests in Alaska and Canada have been burning more often and more deeply since 1987--and they're releasing more carbon dioxide as a result.

[youngjm]

Could it be undergrowth is thicker

Did they even consider the policies that do not allow for the controlled clearing of undergrowth that contributes to more fuel for a bigger fire?

[Shankland]

It's a moot point for most of Alaska/Canada

According to the researcher, most of this area in Alaska and Canada is too remote for any managed fire policies at all, be it controlled burning or fire suppression.

[William Crow]

What would Gore have done....

How would Gore and his minions have responded to the mini-ice
age that occurred a few hundred years ago?

Similarly to how the pope and other clergy did of the day.

[johnericanderson]

Solar Radiation

Heat from the sun.
Our sun oscillates at a minor frquency of about 11.5 years and a major frequency of about 300 years.

The frequency of Solar Flare activity is quite predictable. This happens as the sun heats up. Solar flare activity wanes as the sun cools down.
11.5 years per cycle. This is NOT caused by global warming. Rather, this contributes to climate changes here on the Earth.

Again, solar flares are not the cause, but they do indicate internal solar activity and they do happen as the temperature of the sun rises.

Which affects the earth in predictable cycles.

Translation? "OMG. We're all going to die!!! We had better raise taxes. The sky is falling!!"

[directorblue]

"Global warming": the backbone of a $250 billion carbon offset trading scam

Did you know that the World Rainforest Movement -- as far back as 2000 -- accused the UN's IPCC of a major conflict-of-interest?

That some members of the IPCC, the instigator of much of the hysteria around warming, positioned themselves to profit from the panic by setting up carbon trading and consulting companies?

That the carbon trading market could be as big as $250 billion annually, and ecologists, agriculturists, scientists, and many others have called carbon offseting a "scam", "hoax", "fraudulent" and worse?

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2007/04/uns-ipcc-global-warming-bunko-scam-uns.html

It's great to invest in green technologies, to protect the Earth's resources, and to minimize damage to the environment. But much of this hysteria is built around green (currency), not environmental stewardship.

[Hardcode]

Here's an Idea

Instead of articles or "blogs" that inform your readers about forrest fires in Alaska or whether or not they should burn one less Hanukkah candle, why not run an article (or series) on the computer models that seem to be at the middle of the AGW debate? You are a technology website.I can the dogma elsewhere.

[cac64]

Warming Climate

I would call it justice. The country that refuses to sign any international agreements to prevent further damage to the environment should experience the devastating consequences of its own behaviour. Hurricanes, flooding of New Orleans? When do they learn in the USA? Probably never

[suyts]

We'll take our chances

while the rest of the world gets sent back to the dark ages. Or as we watch their total disregard for the treaties they've signed. What is Europe doing to increase electric supply? (Hint, it ain't green renewables.) Yeh, we should sign more treaties with them.