Happens year in year out

I don’t understand why people live there in the forests

Climate change is going to make these apocalyptic scenes more of a regular event
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Are these fires genuinely weather related?

I would bet my house they're largely arson.

Harris won California didn't she....Trump is fackin furious

comment by Arnefield RAP (U22951)
posted 7 minutes ago
Climate change is going to make these apocalyptic scenes more of a regular event
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Are these fires genuinely weather related?

I would bet my house they're largely arson.
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Climate change impacts how they spread.

In LA, they haven’t had over 2.5mm of rain (the threshold typically considered helpful for thirsty plants and the reduction of wildfire risk) since the start of May last year. Zero through the summer, autumn and into the middle of winter. SoCal’s rainy season usually starts in October, and they haven’t had a drop; they’re technically on the verge of a drought.

Couple that with above average temperatures through the winter, and all of a sudden you have summer-like wildfire risk ground conditions during a period in which you’re more likely to see wind storms. From there, the maths is easy…

No single isolated weather event can be blamed on climate change. What we know climate change is doing, however, is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, meaning, for SoCal for example, that when fires start (whether by arson, heavy machinery use, household accident or lightning strike) the conditions are more likely to be such that a wildfire will develop, and when it does, that it’ll be more catastrophic.

Getting unprecendented coverage here on the BBC.

The Ash Wednesday fires in Australia a few years ago were far worse and only got a fraction of the coverage.

comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Arnefield RAP (U22951)
posted 7 minutes ago
Climate change is going to make these apocalyptic scenes more of a regular event
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Are these fires genuinely weather related?

I would bet my house they're largely arson.
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Climate change impacts how they spread.

In LA, they haven’t had over 2.5mm of rain (the threshold typically considered helpful for thirsty plants and the reduction of wildfire risk) since the start of May last year. Zero through the summer, autumn and into the middle of winter. SoCal’s rainy season usually starts in October, and they haven’t had a drop; they’re technically on the verge of a drought.

Couple that with above average temperatures through the winter, and all of a sudden you have summer-like wildfire risk ground conditions during a period in which you’re more likely to see wind storms. From there, the maths is easy…

No single isolated weather event can be blamed on climate change. What we know climate change is doing, however, is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, meaning, for SoCal for example, that when fires start (whether by arson, heavy machinery use, household accident or lightning strike) the conditions are more likely to be such that a wildfire will develop, and when it does, that it’ll be more catastrophic.
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But they wouldn't spread at all if absolute whoppers didn't deliberately start them.

comment by Arnefield RAP (U22951)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Arnefield RAP (U22951)
posted 7 minutes ago
Climate change is going to make these apocalyptic scenes more of a regular event
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Are these fires genuinely weather related?

I would bet my house they're largely arson.
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Climate change impacts how they spread.

In LA, they haven’t had over 2.5mm of rain (the threshold typically considered helpful for thirsty plants and the reduction of wildfire risk) since the start of May last year. Zero through the summer, autumn and into the middle of winter. SoCal’s rainy season usually starts in October, and they haven’t had a drop; they’re technically on the verge of a drought.

Couple that with above average temperatures through the winter, and all of a sudden you have summer-like wildfire risk ground conditions during a period in which you’re more likely to see wind storms. From there, the maths is easy…

No single isolated weather event can be blamed on climate change. What we know climate change is doing, however, is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, meaning, for SoCal for example, that when fires start (whether by arson, heavy machinery use, household accident or lightning strike) the conditions are more likely to be such that a wildfire will develop, and when it does, that it’ll be more catastrophic.
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But they wouldn't spread at all if absolute whoppers didn't deliberately start them.
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What

comment by Arnefield RAP (U22951)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Arnefield RAP (U22951)
posted 7 minutes ago
Climate change is going to make these apocalyptic scenes more of a regular event
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Are these fires genuinely weather related?

I would bet my house they're largely arson.
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Climate change impacts how they spread.

In LA, they haven’t had over 2.5mm of rain (the threshold typically considered helpful for thirsty plants and the reduction of wildfire risk) since the start of May last year. Zero through the summer, autumn and into the middle of winter. SoCal’s rainy season usually starts in October, and they haven’t had a drop; they’re technically on the verge of a drought.

Couple that with above average temperatures through the winter, and all of a sudden you have summer-like wildfire risk ground conditions during a period in which you’re more likely to see wind storms. From there, the maths is easy…

No single isolated weather event can be blamed on climate change. What we know climate change is doing, however, is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, meaning, for SoCal for example, that when fires start (whether by arson, heavy machinery use, household accident or lightning strike) the conditions are more likely to be such that a wildfire will develop, and when it does, that it’ll be more catastrophic.
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But they wouldn't spread at all if absolute whoppers didn't deliberately start them.
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Some fires will be arson, some will be avoidable (but statistically inevitable) accidents, some will be completely unavoidable accidents, and some will be weather events.

They’ll continue to start, as they always have, whether people are purposefully setting them or otherwise.

I bet they make a film about it !

What was the root cause?

Climate Change doesn’t affect the US so it can’t be that

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 25 seconds ago
What was the root cause?

Climate Change doesn’t affect the US so it can’t be that
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There are currently seven fires burning in the LA area, six of which are completely uncontrolled.

I don’t know if they’re all related (from experience here, I’d guess not), but the underlying conditions and weather in SoCal have been such that a flicked cigarette could start a firestorm pretty easily: it’s utterly tinder-dry, unseasonably hot, with a lot of material to burn and gusts of wind up to 100mph.

Not that it matters hugely in the scheme of things but there are people in the film industry online saying it’ll devastate the film business there and it may never fully recover

comment by Robb #456 (U22716)
posted 28 seconds ago
Not that it matters hugely in the scheme of things but there are people in the film industry online saying it’ll devastate the film business there and it may never fully recover
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Every cloud…

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 20 minutes ago
Getting unprecendented coverage here on the BBC.

The Ash Wednesday fires in Australia a few years ago were far worse and only got a fraction of the coverage.
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This - and if it was in China, Africa or any other part of the non-Western world it would be even less

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 20 minutes ago
Getting unprecendented coverage here on the BBC.

The Ash Wednesday fires in Australia a few years ago were far worse and only got a fraction of the coverage.
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This - and if it was in China, Africa or any other part of the non-Western world it would be even less
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Over 100,000,000 hectares lost to wildfires in Brazil last year alone.

It’s a monumental problem which isn’t talked about nearly enough.

comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 20 minutes ago
Getting unprecendented coverage here on the BBC.

The Ash Wednesday fires in Australia a few years ago were far worse and only got a fraction of the coverage.
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This - and if it was in China, Africa or any other part of the non-Western world it would be even less
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Over 100,000,000 hectares lost to wildfires in Brazil last year alone.

It’s a monumental problem which isn’t talked about nearly enough.
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Massive fires are an annual phenomenon across the Siberian taiga (the world's largest forest) too, and understood to be a direct contributor to the warming of the Arctic.

What was the root cause?
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Arson

Those are all pretty bad but in none of those places did Mahoney from Police Academy lose his home

comment by Robb #456 (U22716)
posted 1 minute ago
Those are all pretty bad but in none of those places did Mahoney from Police Academy lose his home
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Is the guy who did all the voices and sounds OK, though?

Isn't there a whole conspiracy around those Amazon fires though....after some court case that was lost against the indigenous people

The Australian fires are always well reported on...

People need to realise there is no global conspiracy to keep certain countries out of the news or to promote certain countries.. It's often just down to how available English speaking freelance or networked news reporters are in that region.

BBC News' obsession with American news items especiallly when they have bad weather (if there is a hurricane force storm in the Carribean that causes havoc for islanders, it is only news if it lands on the US even as a downgraded tropical storm) and bush fires like this, which happen all over the hot World every year.

Its bordering on sycophantic. Apparently its because we have a 'special relationship'.

Billy Joel should write a song about it

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 hours, 40 minutes ago
Getting unprecendented coverage here on the BBC.

The Ash Wednesday fires in Australia a few years ago were far worse and only got a fraction of the coverage.
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The BBC tend to be very American bias with news coverage

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 2 hours, 58 minutes ago
comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 20 minutes ago
Getting unprecendented coverage here on the BBC.

The Ash Wednesday fires in Australia a few years ago were far worse and only got a fraction of the coverage.
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This - and if it was in China, Africa or any other part of the non-Western world it would be even less
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Over 100,000,000 hectares lost to wildfires in Brazil last year alone.

It’s a monumental problem which isn’t talked about nearly enough.
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Massive fires are an annual phenomenon across the Siberian taiga (the world's largest forest) too, and understood to be a direct contributor to the warming of the Arctic.
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I believe this forest if the largest absorber of CO2 in the world, and every year an area the size of Japan is wiped out.

Hard to fathom really.