learning as much as i can about wildfires. prescribed burns are a prevention tactic to reduce the buildup of vegetation that could serve as fire fuel.

it takes an avg of 4.7 yrs for a prescribed burn to get through environmental reviews. 

80M acres need urgent treatment — that means now, not in 5 years. maddening!

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Do you associate wildfires with climate change?

It might be an insensitive question, it just feels like they are getting worse every year and we are completely moloch’d from solving it.

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Wildfires are a natural way for the nature to start things again (burn down, use ashes to regrow) and are generally preventable. Just check how Californian Fire Dept has been fighting it some 90-100 years ago.

Anthropogenic climate change is the usual scapegoat, but it has nothing to do with climate change and mostly to do with lack of human conservation and prevention, which have been banned or restricted in the name of “let the nature do it’s thing”, and so it does.

Check local policies and strategies and you’ll see motivations. It’s the same with floods in Europe. They remove dams and reservoirs, and then when the floods occur they blame it on “climate change”, while most of them could’ve been prevented with regular maintenance, surveys and civic engineering.

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Climate change is happening. Man-made climate change is a drop in the ocean and we delude ourselves that we can control it. We can only defend ourselves against the extremes.

Once you account for accounting errors in measurements (urban islands, location of weather stations in extreme places, using outdated or inadequate equipment), the story kinda changes.

Once you look into local gov provisions for dealing with floods, wildfires, cold snaps and heatwaves you’ll uncover another layer of preventable problems that are ignored in the name of “protecting environment”, “inadequate funding”, or general “shortsightedness”.

All this is conveniently used to the convince everyone that humans are the problem.

Meanwhile, wildfires release millions of tonnes of CO2 which we so desperately try to prevent from happening, by allowing it to happen.

You wanna see what has the biggest impact on our climate? Look into astronomy, our place in this system, and our elliptical trajectory around the sun.

To be clear I’m 💯 for local prevention and management, and I can’t speak to what regulatory barriers California has in place. 

I also think that, “it has nothing to do with climate change” is a naive point of view.  There’s a strong link between the effects of claimants change (ie rising temperatures, lower precipitation) and the impact of wildfires (frequency, areas burned).

To me it’s akin to having a hole in your boat and blaming the bailers for not bailing.  Yes the boat is going down, but you have to bail AND fix the hole to keep afloat long term.  We ignore either at our peril.