>> You gotta admit — This Onion piece is hilar, if sad:
Californians Gather To Celebrate Annual Wildfire Tradition
The Onion could also do a similar one about our annual “spew sewage into the ocean” celebration.
>> Treehugger’s Lloyd Alter’s put together “Why Does California Burn Every Summer?” — which rounds up the last few wildfires we’ve had.
>> At Grist, Joseph Romm puts together the connections between “Global warming, California, and wildfires” — with an eye towards future concerns. “The final reason to worry about the climate-wildfire connection is that wildfires are a classic amplifying feedback, since burning forests release carbon dioxide that accelerates global warming.”
>> LAist’s Zach Behrens lets you know that the huge white cloud over the fire’s called a pyrocumulous cloud — and educates you on how these things get formed and what they do.
>> Want to work for Heal the Bay? Mark Gold needs a new assistant. The president of Heal the Bay also keeps a blog — Spouting Off — and his latest post calls for a statewide per-capita goal of 100 gallons per day of potable water use by 2020. Right now, the average Angeleno goes through about 135 gallons per day. Earlier: Eating local in a drought.
Maybe we wouldn’t have a drought if they didn’t use all that water to irrigate the freeway median in the Onion video. So nice and green! Unless, … hey! That’s not a SoCal freeway!
Comment by Anonymous — September 3, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
oops, comment #1 was me, I didn’t mean to be “anonymous.”
Comment by Danny Bradfield — September 3, 2009 @ 12:05 pm
And hey, it’s not an actual rich couple affected by the fire :P
It’s true — we need more drought-resistant medians –
Comment by Siel — September 3, 2009 @ 4:53 pm
Could it by just my computer that won’t let me watch the video? It doesn’t seem to work….
: ^ (
Comment by Jeffry S. P. — February 15, 2010 @ 7:33 pm
It’s working for me — You do have to wait a sec for the vid to load –
Comment by Siel — February 16, 2010 @ 5:06 pm
OK. Thanks Siel.
Comment by Jeffry S. P. — February 17, 2010 @ 8:16 pm