{"id":28668,"date":"2017-12-09T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28668"},"modified":"2017-12-09T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:19:10","slug":"the-burning-earth-bears-witness-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28668","title":{"rendered":"The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo by Glenn Beltz | CC by 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Watching the first ten minutes of the \u201cPublic\u201d (Petroleum and\/or Pentagon?) Broadcasting System (\u201cP\u201dBS)\u2019s NewsHour two nights ago, I was overcome by a sense of the surreal. The first news item was the Insane Clown President\u2019s (ICP) idiotic (if base-pleasing) announcement that the U.S. embassy in Israel will at some point be moved from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. NewsHour host and Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member Judy Woodruff announced a special segment on this story later in the broadcast.<\/p>\n

The next story was the coming likely resignation of the centrist corporate-Democratic Party pain-in-the-ass Al Franken from the U.S. Senate in response to cascading allegations of sexual harassment and weirdness.\u00a0 That too was to receive a special segment, the CFR\u2019s Woodruff assured viewers.<\/p>\n

Then came a brief yet hair-raising report showing homes burning and enflamed mountains looming over motorists in southern California, just outside Los Angeles.\u00a0 The wildfire footage was breathtakingly dystopian.<\/p>\n

There was no special segment scheduled for the pre-apocalyptic California wildfires, which were taking down mansions in opulent Bel Air and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate.<\/p>\n

How, I wondered, was this not the top story?<\/p>\n

A correspondent writes me from Central California today (Thursday morning):<\/p>\n

\u2018Climate apocalypse\u2019 is accurate. I live on California\u2019s central coast. Ojai and Ventura surrounded by fires. Carpenteria being evacuated.\u00a0 Lompoc and Santa Barbara covered in ash.\u00a0 White ash floating everywhere in central California.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In The New York Times <\/em>today:<\/p>\n

Southern California is fighting a renewed onslaught from the wildfires menacing greater Los Angeles, with emergency crews contending with brisk winds, steep terrain and fatigue from days of relentless work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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