Posted on 01/05/2020 5:27:26 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Bushfires have nothing to do with climate change, says scientist and bushfire expert
Australia’s current bushfires have nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with fuel-loads, according to scientist and bushfire expert, David Packham AO.
Five years ago, Mr Packham, a former bushfire researcher at CSIRO, warned that unless there is a drastic increase in annual fuel reduction burnings “a massive bushfire disaster will occur”.
According to Mr Packham’s predictions, “The forest and alpine environment will decay and be damaged possibly beyond repair and home and people [will be] incinerated.”
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Australia’s current bushfires have nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with fuel-loads,
I’ve been waiting for years for someone to say this out loud.
How dare you.
Native Australian vegetation tends to be intensely flammable - think eucalyptus trees full of resin, loose strips of bark on the trunk, leaf litter that breaks down slowly. Torches with their own kindling.
The world has valuable, fire resistant trees that tolerate drought, but they’re potentially invasive and could wreck Australia’s unique ecosystem.
Burning 5% of the land a year is a lot of burning.
California imported lots of eucalyptus.
But in anycase there isn't any forests to speak of in LA and Ventura Counties (I guess some trees in ventura). Through out the Conejo Grade this is all brush and oak trees that seem to handle the fires pretty well.
This isn't forest management its weeding - at least around here
BBC showed a video where the Brainwashed locals are blaming the Prime Minister for the fires because he’s not taking Global Warming seriously ,LOL
I think this guy sums it up pretty good (warning, NSFW, contains adult language)
No, you're thinking of San Francisco. ;)
He’s pissed, and rightfully so.
The upside is that millions of their wretched snakes are being eliminated.
“ The upside is that millions of their wretched snakes are being eliminated.”
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Lol, agree. While on Expat assistant in the PRC the family and I spent a Christmas/New Years holiday in Australia, Sidney and Melbourne. Great cities, especially enjoyed the Yarra Valley, Aussie version of Napa Valley. Anyway, dang kangaroos although cute and interesting are taking over. Barbecuing bunch of them is ok with me.
The marginalized data is that “When you realize that volcanism contributes 645 million tons of CO2 per year – and it becomes clearer if you write it as 0.645 billion tons of CO2 per year – compared to humanity’s 29 billion tons per year, it’s overwhelmingly clear what’s caused the carbon dioxide increase in Earth’s atmosphere since 1750.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/06/06/how-much-co2-does-a-single-volcano-emit/#347f65d65cbf
Thus the question https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/02/could-volcanoes-power-world
Bookmark.
Somebody is gonna get a call from grrrrrrreta! Just a warning.
In the article, there is a link to Packham’s 2015 interview where he specifically predicted this was going to happen.........
Golly, so California on a grand scale.
Funny how not a single media item about the fires in Australia have spoken about the EUCALYPTUS trees that heavily populate that country.
Those trees are very OILY.....and that makes fies in those kinds of trees very tough to deal with.
So California had thousands of them years go & they were taken down on public property because of this factor. Private property owners were also encouraged to remove them.
Who told “Europeans” that the Australian Bush could sustain the kind of forests they remember thriving in Europe??
I see big efforts all over North Idaho to clear out the undergrowth. Huge piles of it created all summer and covered with tarps to keep it dry. Then it’s burned in the early winter.
There’s a project called “Honey Badger” that is working to improve forest health from Coeur d’Alene north to Lake Pend Oreille. A major part of the effort is to clear out the decades of undergrowth accumulation.
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