Audacious Cat Comment
Extreme heat means its a hotter summer in EU.
When environmental wacos and government polices forbid clearing of land brush and normal forest management to help prevent wild fires you get wildfires bigtime.
This builds up year after year just like in california.
The forests and other land areas in france and spain were ripe for wildfires because of idiots that didn’t allow proper forest management.
Is arson causing the france and spain tinderboxes to go up in smoke?
I don’t think so. This is a good government excuse for the wildfires.
Is careless campers/smokers etc causing the tinderboxes to burn baby burn. A small percentage.
Are powerlines where brush hasn’t been cleared causing wildfires?
Yes for sure.
Is lightening causing wildfires?
Yes for sure.
French: Menteur Pantalon en feu
English: Liar Liar Pants On Fire.
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“The speed of these fires is something that even the most experienced firefighters are saying they have never seen anything like this,” Daniel Lacalle, chief economist at Madrid-based investment company Tressis, told media outlets.
“In Spain and France, the danger is compounded by strict environmental regulations that restrict the clearing of protected lands. “Policies of nature restoration and building have made it hard in some cases to clear the brush that piles up,” Daniel Lacalle noted, adding that Spain’s vast areas of unused land, combined with an urban-concentrated population, leave uncleared scrub to dry out and act as a tinderbox.
Historically, European forestry prioritized strict preservation over active fuel reduction, a strategy that is now backfiring as climate patterns shift.
“Analysts noted that similar regulatory bottlenecks in the western United States have historically led to catastrophic seasonal burns, suggesting that European nations must rapidly modernize their land-clearing frameworks to prevent seasonal tinderboxes from forming.”
As Rush Limbaugh use to say, for those of use who live in reo linda a regulatory bottleneck ain’t on a coke bottle.
Environmental wacos are the actual cause of catastrophic seasonal wildfire in the US and the EU.
Yep when you don’t clear brush, cut back on trees from power lines etc ya gonna get burned out.
As usual the wildfires are never blamed on the actual criminals the waco environmentalists who are in effect ARSONISTS!!!!
So its burn baby burn in france and spain.
“A severe wildfire surge across Southwestern Europe has displaced hundreds of thousands of residents, threatening major metropolitan areas and pushing emergency services to their limits in France and Spain.
In southwestern France, an aggressive inferno in the Gironde department has consumed roughly 42,000 hectares—an expanse of 162 square miles, equivalent to four times the physical footprint of Paris. The fire has advanced within nine miles of Bordeaux, prompting Mayor Thomas Cazenave to order partial closures along major highway entry points into the city.
Mass evacuations in the region reached a critical threshold after local authorities ordered another 55,000 citizens to flee overnight on Sunday, raising the total number of displaced residents near Bordeaux to approximately 250,000.”
“The logistical disruption has extended across national sporting events, forcing organizers to shorten stages of the Tour de France to keep transit corridors open for emergency personnel. Beyond Gironde, concurrent blazes have triggered 36,000 evacuations in the neighboring Landes region and pushed nearly 3,000 people from their homes in the coastal Var region along the Mediterranean.
Across the border, Spain has declared a national emergency as wildfires ravage multiple autonomous communities. Spanish authorities have evacuated roughly 116,000 people across the Valencia region and areas west of Madrid, including San Martin de Valdeiglesias.”
Ya know you just can’t fix STUPID.
They will have a Hot Time in the old town tonight, as they say.