Posted on 10/03/2020 5:36:37 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
42,000-foot plumes of ash. 143-mph firenadoes. 1,500-degree heat. These wildfires are a new kind of hell on earth, and scientists are racing to learn its rules.
On the windy, hot day of July 26, 2018, as record 113-degree temperatures baked Redding, California, in the northern Sacramento Valley, Eric Knapp toiled in an air-conditioned government office. After work, he planned to meet his wife and 3-year-old daughter, and some family friends, for dinner. Slender and fair-skinned with a gentle smile, Knapp is a research ecologist for the US Forest Service. He was well aware that, three days earlier, in coastal mountains west of town, a wildfire had started when a trailer got a flat tire and the metal wheel rim scraped the asphalt, sending sparks into dry brush.
Like the vast majority of wildfires, this one, called the Carr Fire, burned initially as a wide but shallow band of flames advancing slowly, like a battalion of infantrymen marching shoulder to shoulder, and left behind charred grass and lightly scorched trees. The Carr Fire was also typical in that it moved according to the dictates of wind, ground slope, and flammable fuels—southeast around a lake, then up a hill, in part because heat rises. Early on that particular morning, the fire had crested a rise above Redding and, with a northwesterly breeze at its back, crawled downhill toward town.
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The California Fires are a new HELL on Earth”
That could and should have been prevented.
After looking at that photo, can Orcs be far behind?
Hair on fire headline.
Lots of words that say little.
Ah, here we go.
CLICKBAIT! SEE IF SOMETHING HAPPENS!!
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Everybody including the previous conquerors (the so-called native anericans” and all fire personnel know —- that California’s new policy In the last couple decades of NOT cleaning out forest floors and not clear big firebreaks only serves to create these big fires. Over and over again the lefty eco-idiots never learn even the most basic facts about fire prevention and public safety.
"I love you so much Mr. Tree! So much that my stupidity is going to let you burn to the ground! I put the 'Mental' in EnvironMENTALism!"
California’s power structure created the conditions for this. Californians voted into office those politicians to create the conditions that led to and exacerbated it. I have no sympathy. This is what Left Environmentalism and AGW ideology does to the land and the people.
This is a fascinating piece- thank you for posting.
It seems we could learn a thing or two from American Indians and the way they managed fires to keep forests healthy.
The next disaster to hit California will be mudslides when the rainy season finally comes.
The writer obviously has no knowledge of the Cretaceous era wild fires that accompanied the asteroid impact back then, if he thinks wildfires in California are a new kind of hell on earth. But earth history only began when Gore invented the internet or sonething /s
Newsome is just letting everything burn down so the state doesn’t have to do any forestry management.
Yup. Droughts always end with flooding rains.
To watch the rats argue that climate change is causing forest fires in one state is something to behold. If we had anything that approached an honest news media they would have turned on them and said you people are either lying, crazy or both.
Democrats can only ignore problems. They like control, sex, drugs and death.
It is an excellent article. You may wish to actually read it.
His is why the SE is not burning....plus most of the land is in private hands...
The wood pellets are shipped to England
“In the last couple decades of NOT cleaning out forest floors and not clear big firebreaks only serves to create these big fires. “
It’s been going on for 100 years, not just a couple of decades.
EPA. Sucks.
Is this the fire that destroyed earth?
wonder where their Spotted owl lives now and do they think it was worth it???
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