On why we have a 747 Very Large Air Tanker sitting unused in the U.S. Southwest:
In Colorado wildfires, ‘worst in state history’, why won’t the Forest Service use the biggest firefighting tool available? | Watts Up With That?: "Poems of Our Climate says:UPDATE: And more:
June 30, 2012 at 2:00 pm
The simple answer is firefighting is big business and big money and big union. Putting the fire out ruins the gravy train. This is how firefighting works on every level. They wait until the fires are out of control, then come in to stand there pretty much.
I’ve seen it with my own eyes in my high-fire area. It’s intentional.
Most logging has been banned, enabling incredible danger and a giant anti-fire infrastructure with all the funding. The warmist narritive fits nicely with Big Fire."
Spend a billion plus dollars fighting with the equipment they got, let hundreds of thousands of acres burn causing many millions of dollars of damage with the disruption and likely injury and death of many humans. But since that 20,000 gallon fast-flying tanker plane can’t be precise enough to guarantee that no slurry will wind up in in some water somewhere, it is all worth it to save the fish. The joke is Green is the new Red. Now Fiery Red is the new Green.
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