The wildfires are happening for multiple reasons not just global warming. Our forests literally evolved to burn down and we have been stopping that for decades. Just building up deadfall and dead trees throw in drier weather and boom. We should have been doing controlled burns. And yes I know climate change is having an effect on the fires but it is not the only reason we are here.
Always have been. The difference is that more severe wildfires happen more frequently. The 6th IPCC report from 2021 (we are now on the 7th and the 8th is being prepared) had this nice figure (page 18) that showed this for extreme temperatures, floods and droughts:
If you don’t immediately understand what this means, ask your insurance broker.
I’m not even sure if controled burns are the best option long term, it still releases a ton of carbon and particulate matter. It might be better to make artificial peat lands and sink organic materials into them, acting as a carbon sink. Or maybe even remove the deadfall for other purposes.
Wild fires are a sign of a healthy forest. It burns all of the brush allowing new growth. Many plant species have evolved for their lifecycle to require being exposed to fires to germinate.
We should be putting all of the money towards fire smarting around communities, and then fighting fires that threaten communities.
Thin the forests for a few hundred meters around each community every 10 years, remove the deadfall, cut low hanging branches.
Let fires burn in the wilderness until it gets within a certain distance and then go full throttle to stop it from hitting any infrastructure, even it it means just letting it burn around the community.
Yet fossil fuel infrastructure is dubbed “nation building projects” by the government.
The wildfires are happening for multiple reasons not just global warming. Our forests literally evolved to burn down and we have been stopping that for decades. Just building up deadfall and dead trees throw in drier weather and boom. We should have been doing controlled burns. And yes I know climate change is having an effect on the fires but it is not the only reason we are here.
Always have been. The difference is that more severe wildfires happen more frequently. The 6th IPCC report from 2021 (we are now on the 7th and the 8th is being prepared) had this nice figure (page 18) that showed this for extreme temperatures, floods and droughts:
If you don’t immediately understand what this means, ask your insurance broker.
I’m not even sure if controled burns are the best option long term, it still releases a ton of carbon and particulate matter. It might be better to make artificial peat lands and sink organic materials into them, acting as a carbon sink. Or maybe even remove the deadfall for other purposes.
Wild fires are a sign of a healthy forest. It burns all of the brush allowing new growth. Many plant species have evolved for their lifecycle to require being exposed to fires to germinate.
We should be putting all of the money towards fire smarting around communities, and then fighting fires that threaten communities.
Thin the forests for a few hundred meters around each community every 10 years, remove the deadfall, cut low hanging branches.
Let fires burn in the wilderness until it gets within a certain distance and then go full throttle to stop it from hitting any infrastructure, even it it means just letting it burn around the community.