"His Name is Actually Smokey Bear"

[Ben]

Where "real news" organization Buzzfeed is under the impression that Smokey the Bear is some guy. 

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/11/21/ffs-buzzfeed-issues-correction-on-smokey-bear/

[makattak]

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Just more of the lack of any sense of history.

For the left, it really seems that they believe nothing happened before yesterday.

[MechAg94]

We’ve deleted this tweet. Smokey Bear fronts a campaign for wildfire prevention, not wildfire suppression.

I first read that as "wildlife prevention" which made me think it was worse.  I don't remember anything other than "Smokey the Bear" with no last name.  But that is a minor thing. 

[Ben]

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Just more of the lack of any sense of history.

For the left, it really seems that they believe nothing happened before yesterday.

Yup. On the more serious note, this is why we have things like "OMG Global Warming!!!!!!!!" because it's all about what happened in these people's lifetime, and nothing before 1990 or so ever happened. Let alone 10,000 or 10,000,000 years ago.

[makattak]

Yup. On the more serious note, this is why we have things like "OMG Global Warming!!!!!!!!" because it's all about what happened in these people's lifetime, and nothing before 1990 or so ever happened. Let alone 10,000 or 10,000,000 years ago.

My mother has told me about blizzards that covered the fenceposts just before I was born. In my entire time in Illinois, I never experienced that.

I also know from my Grandmother that the 30s had consistent, oppressive heat (most of our high temperature records STILL come from the 30s.)

I guess the extreme I witnessed was the major flooding of the Mississippi, Illinois, and associated rivers.

If the beginning of this winter (which hasn't even started!) is any indication, we may be in for the Fencepost blizzards this year. (Or, I should say, THEY are in for it, as I'm now a good ways further south and can tell the difference in climate.)

The prevailing perspective on such things is seriously skewed.

[lee n. field]

My mother has told me about blizzards that covered the fenceposts just before I was born. In my entire time in Illinois, I never experienced that.

I also know from my Grandmother that the 30s had consistent, oppressive heat (most of our high temperature records STILL come from the 30s.)

I guess the extreme I witnessed was the major flooding of the Mississippi, Illinois, and associated rivers.

If the beginning of this winter (which hasn't even started!) is any indication, we may be in for the Fencepost blizzards this year. (Or, I should say, THEY are in for it, as I'm now a good ways further south and can tell the difference in climate.)

The prevailing perspective on such things is seriously skewed.

I may misremember, but it seems that we reached 100 more when I was a kid, than now.  Ditto extremes of cold, prior to the last 5 years or so.

[230RN]

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Just more of the lack of any sense of history.

For the left, it really seems that they believe nothing happened before yesterday.

Y' know, that definitely explains a lot.

Over the entrance to Norlin Library on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder:

WHO KNOWS ONLY HIS OWN GENERATION REMAINS ALWAYS A CHILD

Terry

REF:
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/university-colorado-boulder-22699885.jpg

[Hawkmoon]

I first read that as "wildlife prevention" which made me think it was worse.  I don't remember anything other than "Smokey the Bear" with no last name.  But that is a minor thing.

Correct. It was "Smokey the Bear" ...

[deep voice]"Remember, only YOU can prevent [not "suppress"] forest fires. Be sure it's out ... dead out."[/deep voice]

[Ben]

I may misremember, but it seems that we reached 100 more when I was a kid, than now.  Ditto extremes of cold, prior to the last 5 years or so.

I always find it interesting to view the historical data from the various COOP stations, specifically the monthly extremes. Often you'll see something like a station hitting some record high last year, but then when you go back 50 years, you find a temp within 1 deg of it, but with many days at that temp, versus just the one off "record" day. Or several years in a row with some monthly extreme, then a dozen years of more moderate temps.

https://wrcc.dri.edu/Climate/west_coop_summaries.php

[Angel Eyes]

Over the entrance to Norlin Library on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder:

WHO KNOWS ONLY HIS OWN GENERATION REMAINS ALWAYS A CHILD

Ironic, given the location: in the middle of Snowflake Central (and I don't mean the weather).

[freakazoid]

(And yes, his name is actually Smokey Bear)

They REALLY had no idea about this whole thing. They post that like people are supposed to be surprised and shocked about this.

[Hawkmoon]

https://youtu.be/Jaj86uodBu0?t=39

[zxcvbob]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHQKDVMbOVM

[230RN]

"...be careful with matches, smokes, campfires, and burning letters from your ex husband in the forest, especially during a burn ban and you work for the U.S. Forest Service..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayman_Fire

A forestry technician with the U.S. Forest Service, Terry Barton, set the fire in a campfire ring during a total burn ban triggered by a National Weather Service red flag warning. Barton's claim that she was attempting to burn a letter from her estranged husband was disputed by one of her teenage daughters who testified that a psychology teacher had told Ms. Barton to write her feelings in a letter and burn it..