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Sorry, if it's not PG&E it will be some guy with a cigarette, drunk campers, or lightning. The root cause of this is hotter temperatures than the area is adapt
by throwaway5752 7y ago
Sorry, if it's not PG&E it will be some guy with a cigarette, drunk campers, or lightning.
The root cause of this is hotter temperatures than the area is adapted to. They're up 3 deg F over average and rising. It's killing trees with drought paired with hotter fires than the native trees evolved to tolerate.
I don't mean to be gloomy but this is the just the beginning, it's getting much worse.
- newnewpdro 7y agoBlaming climate change as the root cause of these fires is to completely ignore the fundamental nature of California.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoYeah, but that guy doesn't have the liability (judgement proof)
- trimbo 7y agoOr a pyromaniac who flies here from Missouri :( https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/09/26/freddie-graham-missouri-starts-fires-california-bay-area/ https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/09/26/freddie-graham-mi...
- chrisco255 7y agoDroughts are nothing new to California. The worst droughts were in the 30s, 70s and 80s: https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-retrospective-20150413-story.html https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-re... But also, there's fossil evidence of 200 year droughts in California: https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/25/california-drought-past-dry-periods-have-lasted-more-than-200-years-scientists-say/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/25/california-drought-pa...
- abstractbarista 7y agoIs it though? That area is naturally a bundle of kindling. It's part of the lifecycle to burn, flourish, then burn again. It's us grumpy humans who moved in and sought to control it who are the problem. If you live there, your infrastructure should be impervious to fire. Nothing less. Let it burn!