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Foreboding Skies over the SF Bay Area

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Re: Foreboding Skies over the SF Bay Area

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Post by dang »

athms wrote: post #55
cryptonector wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sacramento and Newsome won't be doing anything at all to reduce wildfires, just like Brown before him. No controlled burns. No dead tree removal. No fire breaks. Nothing.

Stop talking about a subject matter you know nothing about.

Please don't do this on HN. If you know more, it would be great to share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. If you don't want to or don't have time, that's cool, but please don't cross into personal attack. It only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Foreboding Skies over the SF Bay Area

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Post by baddox »

hodgesrm wrote: post #20

It 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…

> It's like ecological herd immunity.

I would think the closer analogy to a pandemic would be that it calms down when it kills nearly everyone. But, I suppose that is herd immunity in some sense.

Re: Foreboding Skies over the SF Bay Area

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Post by maerF0x0 »

Thrymr wrote: post #48
maerF0x0 wrote: post #24

Earlier 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.

"Selective logging" usually means removing the big, healthy, valuable trees and not the brush and dead wood that provide the fuel, but are not worth the effort to clear financially. It's expensive to do it well.

Correct, but these kinds of forests will often have their deadwood trees removed as a form of spacing to allow either more quality trees or growth room for existing trees.

Re: Foreboding Skies over the SF Bay Area

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Post by enahs-sf »

p1mrx wrote: post #40
enahs-sf wrote: post #3

Strong 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 so odd to see people going about their day as if normal when there is nothing normal about today. What should they be doing instead?

I was just admiring the dystopian aspect of it.
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