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Surely the much dryer/warmer weather due to climate change has something to do with it, no?
by barbazoo 3y ago
Surely the much dryer/warmer weather due to climate change has something to do with it, no?
- swader999 3y agoHotter climate is supposed to create more rain is it not?
- mcdonje 3y agoThe effects of climate change are different in different regions. And the types of weather patterns that deliver more precipitation to some regions could be quite different from what the local wildlife has adapted to.
- S201 3y agoOP did not say that climate change was not a factor. Both of these are contributing factors. I will second the point about lack of controlled burns and logging absolutely being a problem. Look at photos of western forests from the late 1800s and you'll see that we have far more trees now than a century ago. Here's an example of Yosemite valley: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/opinion/sunday/california-wildfires-forest-management.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/opinion/sunda.... A century of fire suppression and climate change have proved to be a dangerous combination. One of these is easier to correct though if we could get past the idea that every tree must be saved at all costs.
- timeon 3y agoOP was just shifting the focus while blaming "environmentalists".
- pharrington 3y agoOP didn't even mention climate change in the post, and previously has explicitly denied that climate change is a problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36166197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36166197
- zitterbewegung 3y agoFrom the core assumption that there would be more dry days doesn’t change the fact that you will encounter more ferocious wildfires (actually if we had less dry days we would encounter even more ferocious wildfires because of less burns in general when you think about it).