California Wildfires
Comments focus on wildfires in California and similar regions, debating causes such as poor forest management, lack of controlled burns, climate change, and prevention policies.
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Similarly: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/17/1008473/wildfire...
Check out the forest fires in California and Oregon recently, Fire is a fast way to change a lot of land!
Californians and wild fires come to mind
It's similar in California. In the years leading up to the big Santa Cruz mountain fire in 2020, the scientists and forest rangers were aware of the increasing amount of fuel building up in the forest there. They simply weren't able to do the controlled burns they wanted because of a lack of weather windows for controlled burns. That area is also close to silicon valley so there are extra air quality requirements for the burns.
Fire burning through grass and vineyards has been a feature of the latest fire season in northern CA. Given how dry and hot the climate is, only dirt is a sure thing. However with high enough winds, embers can carry long distances and cross fire breaks. For example in 2017, the Tubbs fire crossed highway 101. But I still agree that living close to trees is worse.
Maybe happening more often with the wildfires these days
Ask California and all the wildfires.
I count fires as a form of weather in CA, would probably apply to the PNW too
You’re missing something here. Fires can start on private and state land and then spread to national forests. Also, more and more Californians are moving away from the coast into rural suburbs due to cost of living. Additionally, due to COVID lockdowns, more people are camping than ever. Fires aren’t started by climate change, they’re started by humans.
> Wildfires and earthquakes are the only problems not self inflictedMassive wildfires (vs small distributed fires) are the result of the policy framework that (a) prohibits preventative controlled burns (b) requires immediate containment of any new fire. The old (more flammable) undergrowth never has a chance to burn off and free up the space for (less flammable) new generation.As a result CA is one of the most polluting states in the nation as far as co2 emissions <a href="https:/