Obvious causation
Again OTR leads to a, shall we say interesting, modern fact.

This 1946 episode of TIYFBI is the only episode located near Spokane. A pair of criminals escape from Walla Walla and hide out in the woods somewhere east of Tekoa. The escapees carjack a pair of teenagers and take them along as hostages. Finally the hiding place is found with help from the Forest Service's fire lookout towers, because one of the hostages was smart enough to send a smoky SOS with the cabin's fireplace. Yeah, okay, unlikely and contrived. But anything with Morse is my kind of story!

Got me thinking: In the forest GLOBAL WARMINGS of the last several years, I haven't heard even one mention of those GLOBAL WARMING lookout towers helping to spot a GLOBAL WARMING. But I HAVE heard about the Forest Service taking steps to preserve historical GLOBAL WARMING lookouts when GLOBAL WARMING is about to overtake them.

After a bit of googling, the UNSURPRISING FACT emerges.

Story on KING 5 last year:

Fire lookout towers have helped crews fight wildfires for decades, but they are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Efforts are currently underway to help save the structures, and one man from Everett is making it his mission drum up support. Craig Willis has hiked to all of Washington's remaining fire lookout towers. "It takes people to places they might otherwise ignore," said Willis.

There are 93 lookout towers left in the Evergreen State. At one point, there were roughly 800.

Technology allows crews to fight fires in a different way today. Although some of the lookouts are still used, most are falling apart, have been destroyed by Mother Nature or dismantled under government order.

Yes indeed, technology allows crews to fight GLOBAL WARMING in a different way today. From a long Wiki article,

From the 1960s through the 1990s the towers took a back seat to new technology, aircraft, and improvements in radios. The promise of space satellite fire detection and modern cell phones tried to compete with the remaining fire lookout towers, but in several environments, the technology failed. Fires detected from space are already too large to make accurate assessments for control. Cell phones in wilderness areas still suffer from lack of signal.

Different way of fighting = wait till the GLOBAL WARMING burns a few towns and kills a few honkies.

Well, that explains why we're having more explosive GLOBAL WARMINGS in the last decade. GLOBAL WARMING is burning everything, so the Forest Service has to spend extra money protecting the few remaining history towers before they're all burned up by the GLOBAL WARMINGS. Because the Forest Service is wasting money on history towers, it can't afford to actually FIGHT the GLOBAL WARMINGS.

I'm sure that's the only possible causation sequence. Any causation sequence on ANY SUBJECT that does not start and end with GLOBAL WARMING is obviously illogical and impossible.

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Sarc off: But this doesn't explain the US vs Canada difference that I noted earlier. On a map of fire coverage, the US/Can border showed up SHARPLY. South of the border fires were exploding. North, fires were starting but remaining small. One fire literally stopped at the border. Our genocidal insistence on eliminating ALL SELF-DEFENSE METHODS wasn't unique. Canada was tearing down lookout towers at the same rate. So this sharp gradient wasn't created by a difference in lookouts.

Labels: Carbon Cult, defensible spaces, Loughnerian Logic

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