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In Australia, one of the problems that we face (and we have much more of a culture of "let it burn" and doing controlled burns than CA) is that chaotic weather
by glangdale 5y ago
In Australia, one of the problems that we face (and we have much more of a culture of "let it burn" and doing controlled burns than CA) is that chaotic weather (almost certainly the result of climate change) has reduced the number of days available for controlled burns. You need pretty calibrated conditions to do safe controlled burns - not too wet, not too dry, and not too windy.
Last round of big fires in Australia, the scale of the fires were contributed to by fewer available days in the previous years to do the burning. Plenty of dipshits with axes to grind blamed it on the "Greenies" as per usual, but the people who manage the controlled burns had another story to tell.
- joe_the_user 5y agoYeah, California desperately needs a plan to thin vegetation in it's forested areas. But it's disappointing people trying to leverage this aspect to "don't worry about global warming" or "see, it's really the environmentalists' fault".
- jartelt 5y agoIt's similar in California. In the years leading up to the big Santa Cruz mountain fire in 2020, the scientists and forest rangers were aware of the increasing amount of fuel building up in the forest there. They simply weren't able to do the controlled burns they wanted because of a lack of weather windows for controlled burns. That area is also close to silicon valley so there are extra air quality requirements for the burns.