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to bigbubba: > Climate varies from region to region and the past 150 years in California were unusually wet. And the last 20 have not been. These patterns al
by abernard1 6y ago
to bigbubba:
> Climate varies from region to region and the past 150 years in California were unusually wet.
And the last 20 have not been. These patterns also have not shown up in other places with the same climate patterns but different policies.
Australia, for instance, has had nightmare fires forever. It's only been the last few decades that underbrush removal has been made more difficult or illegal in many cases.
- bigbubba 6y agoThe past 20 years has seen California returning to it's more typical dry and hot climate. California has had huge fires every year 'since forever' just like Australia, but awareness of this is low because living memory of the past hundred years is of an aberrantly wet period. Being hot, dry and on fire has been California's typical climate for two thousand years at least and the past 20 are a return to that. If anything, California is still wetter than usual, not dryer. Clear all the brush you want, California will almost certainly continue to get hotter and dryer than it was a century ago, and the fires will continue. There is no light at the end of the tunnel for California, only an orange glow on the horizon. Fire management strategies that worked a century ago for wet California will not continue to work. That was never maintainable.