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Weird Weather Watch: Wildfire in New Jersey, Started by the Military
New Jersey officials called a wildfire begun yesterday afternoon by an F-16's flare "one of the larger fires we’ve had for quite a few years." That's saying something. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's website, which lists historically significant wildfires, shows an increasing frequency of major fires since the 1990s. As it turns out, flares dropped in military exercises have caused more than one. Careless smokers have been arrested for starting fires—will military pilots face the same punishment?
An additional note on the fires currently burning in Florida and Georgia: Not only is fire ravaging a historically huge swath of Georgia's landscape, but people with respiratory illnesses were told to stay inside today. Add their lost productivity and potential illnesses to the tally of the cost of global warming. On the Florida side of the border, flames have already destroyed more than half that state's yearly average of acres destroyed. (The current fire covers 120,000 acres; a representative from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services told me the state loses about 200,000 acres a year.)
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Bush, Howard & Harper: 21st Neville Chamberlains! The Whole World is Watching! The indictment of future generations of children will be severe.
With respect to their inaction over the coming catastrophe of Climate Change and their failure to live up to the Kyoto Protocol, United States President George Bush, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper are the 21st Neville Chamberlains.
Even Prince Charles is calling on the world to wage war against climate change, likening it to Britain's battle against Nazi Germany. The prince said at a business conference at his London residence, St. James Palace:
"We can do it. Just think what they did in the last war. Things that seemed impossible were achieved almost overnight. I do not want my children and grandchildren, or anyone, for that matter, saying to me, 'Why didn't you do something when it was possible to make a difference and when you knew what was happening?"'
Bush, Howard & Harper: 21st version of Neville Chamberlains!!!!!
I did some investigating on this fire and found that the F-16 most likely shot down a UFO. Sightings started at Newark Airport at 7am, then another at 8am heading south with 2 helicopters chasing parallel to Garden State Parkway. Fire reported starting at around 11am. UFO was smoking. Check NUFORC for info.
Posted by: steve on 01/24/08 at 11:24 AM Respond
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