An Inconvenient Democrat

Harry Reid and other warmists will have a hearing:

A committee spokesman said the hearing “was prompted by the wildfires out West and the view of some scientists that the increasing size, frequency and intensity of these fires is affected adversely by global warming.” A panel of scientists will testify.

Yeah sure, Harry, just like the increasing size, frequency and intensity of hurricanes. Right? Anyway:

At Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, WERC researchers and collaborators from the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research have put together the longest and most detailed fire histories anywhere. The records, assembled from fire scars in the annual growth rings of giant sequoias, extend back over 2,000 years, and show that fire typically burned on the floor of sequoia groves every 3 to 8 years.

Sure, it wasn't the Sequoia groves burning, but the nature of the fires is the same. We only know this because the forest service figured out that Sequoias need fire in order to reproduce. By breaking the cycle and keeping the groves fire-free for the last hundred years, we stopped Sequoia reproduction. Mother Nature likes to shave her armpits from time to time and California forest management is to blame for screwing up that cycle. And keeping home owners from thinning their trees made the problem worse. Not the (natural) half-degree temperature rise we've seen in the last 100 years.

Sad thing is, some people will buy it.