coypondboy Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) This is so sad great ski area and town (godfather 2 wedding filmed here) all about to go up in flames unless they can save it a sign of the times. If it goes up in flames will be headline news tommorrow as a much loved place for San Francisco pop along with Yosemite. The scary things is this is just the start of fire season alongside hurricane season which luckily the weekend hurricane did not breach the New Orleans levees but lots of damage as first big one of the season, the scary thing was it accelerated from a cat 1 to a cat 4 between crossing cuba and hitting louisiana due to the warm waters of the gulf stream. I Edited August 31, 2021 by coypondboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Very sad. Very weird that some of the people fleeing will refuse to believe in climate change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gbob Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 3 minutes ago, PeanutButter said: Very sad. Very weird that some of the people fleeing will refuse to believe in climate change. Perhaps they understand there have always been and will always be wild fires, regardless of how often I drive my diesel Range Rover or eat roast beef. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, Glenn said: Perhaps they understand there have always been and will always be wild fires, regardless of how often I drive my diesel Range Rover or eat roast beef. LMAOoo what cowwer is your very speshal Wange Wover? Is it black? Do you have a big yellow wheel lock or a big red wheel lock to stop it getting nicked? And of all the meats you went with roast beef *wipes tears of joy* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kzb Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 14 minutes ago, PeanutButter said: Very sad. Very weird that some of the people fleeing will refuse to believe in climate change. Almost all these wildfires are started by people, by accident or deliberately. Decades ago accessing these wild areas was a lot more difficult for the general population. Now they are out in their SUVs having barbeques every weekend. So inevitably fires get started. Another factor is poor management with respect to fire risk, e.g fire breaks in forests are much less common. Despite all this the number of US wildfires is historically low. It's just that we get to hear about them now because people live there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kzb Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 I've said this before on another thread: In 1974, fully 15% of the land area of Australia was burnt. This way exceeds any of the recent fires by several-fold. But no-one knew or cared at the time. They only found out how large the burnt area was after the event, from satellite images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gbob Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) 10 minutes ago, PeanutButter said: LMAOoo what cowwer is your very speshal Wange Wover? Is it black? Do you have a big yellow wheel lock or a big red wheel lock to stop it getting nicked? And of all the meats you went with roast beef *wipes tears of joy* You really are a c0ck aren't you. What time is the bus coming to take you back to the centre? Edited August 31, 2021 by Glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gbob Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 10 minutes ago, kzb said: Despite all this the number of US wildfires is historically low. It's just that we get to hear about them now because people live there. We get to hear about then now because it suits the agenda now and fits in with click baity headlines like "Global warming leading to California being on fire" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 11 minutes ago, Glenn said: You really are a c0ck aren't you. What time is the bus coming to take you back to the centre? The centre cannot hold me. I haven't had a n00b try to insult me in a while lollll. Bless your extremely branded instagrammable polyester foot coverings. PS It's got a 3D vanity plate hasn't it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 28 minutes ago, kzb said: I've said this before on another thread: In 1974, fully 15% of the land area of Australia was burnt. This way exceeds any of the recent fires by several-fold. But no-one knew or cared at the time. They only found out how large the burnt area was after the event, from satellite images. So? I still don’t care about a fire in 1974, why do you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gbob Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 4 minutes ago, PeanutButter said: The centre cannot hold me. I haven't had a n00b try to insult me in a while lollll. Bless your extremely branded instagrammable polyester foot coverings. PS It's got a 3D vanity plate hasn't it I think we both know I can't really afford a ranger rover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 33 minutes ago, Glenn said: I think we both know I can't really afford a ranger rover I’m still a c0ck though, you can’t take that away from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kzb Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 50 minutes ago, PeanutButter said: So? I still don’t care about a fire in 1974, why do you? Because in 1974 we had Global Cooling. We were heading for the next ice age according to the TV at the time. Yet we still had an immense bushfire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheCountOfNowhere Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 2 hours ago, coypondboy said: This is so sad great ski area and town (godfather 2 wedding filmed here) all about to go up in flames unless they can save it a sign of the times. If it goes up in flames will be headline news tommorrow as a much loved place for San Francisco pop along with Yosemite. The scary things is this is just the start of fire season alongside hurricane season which luckily the weekend hurricane did not breach the New Orleans levees but lots of damage as first big one of the season, the scary thing was it accelerated from a cat 1 to a cat 4 between crossing cuba and hitting louisiana due to the warm waters of the gulf stream. I Global warming ? Have you not been in Britain this year ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 1 hour ago, kzb said: Because in 1974 we had Global Cooling. We were heading for the next ice age according to the TV at the time. Yet we still had an immense bushfire. Did we? Australia naturally has bushfires. Same as Siberia naturally has forest fires. We still may have a mini ice age but it won’t change the fact we gots too much dang CO2 floating’ about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coypondboy Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 1 hour ago, TheCountOfNowhere said: Global warming ? Have you not been in Britain this year ? yes just got back from my cycle to sandbanks had to wear a fleece and took a thermos flask but the sunset was nice in poole harbour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Massive fires and burning of wood is in itself pushing a huge amount of co2 into the atmosphere......making global warming even worse, the fire and smoke must be the equivalent of driving many vehicles and flying many planes all over the world......the effects of climate change creating a greater climate change problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 9 hours ago, coypondboy said: yes just got back from my cycle to sandbanks had to wear a fleece and took a thermos flask but the sunset was nice in poole harbour Very nice, beautiful light around Poole harbour.....nice to see a big wide open horizon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locke Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Did you see that that loony left (although I repeat myself) professor started setting fires to try and trap firefighters in the wildfire they were battling? North American plantlife is evolved around devastating wildfires. Global warming has nothing to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 10 hours ago, coypondboy said: yes just got back from my cycle to sandbanks had to wear a fleece and took a thermos flask but the sunset was nice in poole harbour Yip, that's my summer in a nut shell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byron78 Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 13 hours ago, TheCountOfNowhere said: Global warming ? Have you not been in Britain this year ? You can't really be this daft, can you? We live next to the Atlantic. We don't enjoy the cold water currents of the Med. Our summer being wet and muggy is pretty much exactly what our climate change is likely to be, sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byron78 Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Locke said: Did you see that that loony left (although I repeat myself) professor started setting fires to try and trap firefighters in the wildfire they were battling? North American plantlife is evolved around devastating wildfires. Global warming has nothing to do with it. That last bit is spot on. Wildfires are a part of nature and always have been. The areas they're burning are however twice what they were until very recently in many places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locke Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Just now, byron78 said: That last bit is spot on. Wildfires are a part of nature and always have been. The areas they're burning are however twice what they were until very recently in many places. Well people have been preventing wildfires and allowing combustible material to build up, so the recent rate is lower and the potential for fires has gone up. The current scenario is exactly what you would expect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 4 minutes ago, byron78 said: You can't really be this daft, can you? We live next to the Atlantic. We don't enjoy the cold water currents of the Med. Our summer being wet and muggy is pretty much exactly what our climate change is likely to be, sadly. That's convenient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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