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Until the next year or two when they come back again bigger from a unseasonably warm summer and unseasonably wet winter which grows even more fuel. And then aga
by redisman 6y ago
Until the next year or two when they come back again bigger from a unseasonably warm summer and unseasonably wet winter which grows even more fuel. And then again and then again and then again, growing worse each time until the forest doesn't grow back again at some point.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y ago> until the forest doesn't grow back again at some point gotta love this doom-obsessed gedankenexperiment
- redisman 6y agohttps://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/08/25/forests-scorched-wildfire-unlikely-recover-may-convert-grasslands https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/08/25/forests-scorched-w... > Even 15 years post-fire, as many as 80% of the plots the researchers surveyed still contained no new trees.