Bad Wigins wrote:
some sane person wrote:
Good. I'm tired of not being able to run outside half the year due to smoke from wildfires.
Move out of the forest then. Forests catch on fire. This is normal.
I suppose you blame climate change for worse fires, but fact is hotter drier weather stops forest growth to begin with. If anything's to blame for superfires, it's all the wealthy idiots who move into the forest and then beg the government to put out any fire that gets near their mansions. Sooner or later it burns anyway, hotter with the extra fuel.
No, fires aren't due to wealthy people. And smoke from wildfires in California blanketed the midwest this year. Fire season starts earlier and ends later due to climate change. Warmer winters mean more pine beetles survive which means more dead trees (true from Yosemite to Colorado) which makes fires have more fuel. More extreme droughts make fires hotter, faster moving and put more acreage at risk of starting fire.
Seriously we need to stop sticking our heads in the sand on this and stop focusing on the factors that are 0.001% of it when the 99.999% cause is climate change from greenhouse gases. This isn't left vs right or rich vs poor or whatever. We're all suffering from this and I'd rather my money go to some American wind farm than prop up the fossil fuel prices for Putin and the Saudis.