Basically nullifying every air pollution effort for years. Reducing CA wildfire should be environmentalist number 1 priority.
Foreboding Skies over the SF Bay Area
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#22Strong blade runner vibes going on today. It's so odd to see people going about their day as if normal when there is nothing normal about today. Was outside near Lake Merritt and there are people jogging and having coffee. Pure dystopia.
It's actually worse than the sky in Blade Runner
It was always raining in Blade Runner, too. I wish we would get some rain. That would clear things out nicely.
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#23My tomatoes are unhappy about this development.
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#24It seems clear that the Western US is going to burn until the fuel is gone in enough places that megafires can't develop easily. It's like ecological herd immunity. Most affected states are still in the reactive firefighting mode rather than thinking how to get ahead of the curve by removing a century of fuel accumulated from determined fire suppression. There's no question rising temperatures make things worse, but…
ideologues are able to turn any event into evidence for their perspective. I'm not a climate change denier, I just agree with you that the real issue is humankind's fire suppression.
There are a bunch of things that could be done, but no one is happy to support it. Selective logging, brush clearing, not putting multi-million dollar homes in the forest. etc.
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#25Yeah, wore my gas mask for my commute today... Regular masks don't cut it
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#26It seems clear that the Western US is going to burn until the fuel is gone in enough places that megafires can't develop easily. It's like ecological herd immunity. Most affected states are still in the reactive firefighting mode rather than thinking how to get ahead of the curve by removing a century of fuel accumulated from determined fire suppression. There's no question rising temperatures make things worse, but…
> rather than thinking how to get ahead of the curve by removing a century of fuel accumulated from determined fire suppression
The way to get rid of it is to... burn it. But people don't like it burning, so they won't.
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#27When I woke up this morning, my first thoughts: "Oh, I woke up early... hmm, nope. Huh, I wonder if WW3 started last night."
It makes me long for the fresh air and clear skies of Beijing.
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#28It seems clear that the Western US is going to burn until the fuel is gone in enough places that megafires can't develop easily. It's like ecological herd immunity. Most affected states are still in the reactive firefighting mode rather than thinking how to get ahead of the curve by removing a century of fuel accumulated from determined fire suppression. There's no question rising temperatures make things worse, but…
ideologues are able to turn any event into evidence for their perspective. I'm not a climate change denier, I just agree with you that the real issue is humankind's fire suppression. There are a bunch of things that could be done, but no one is happy to support it. Selective logging, brush clearing, not putting multi-million dollar homes in the forest. etc.
was the same in California 20 years ago. Didn't have fires like this. What's changed?
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#29i don't have any sympathy for california at all.
bad policies over decades has led to this result.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
ideologues are able to turn any event into evidence for their perspective. I'm not a climate change denier, I just agree with you that the real issue is humankind's fire suppression. There are a bunch of things that could be done, but no one is happy to support it. Selective logging, brush clearing, not putting multi-million dollar homes in the forest. etc.
was the same in California 20 years ago. Didn't have fires like this. What's changed?
20 years of accumulating fuel on the ground.