Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:54:09 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 7/31/2026 2:29 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:28:14 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 5:23:29?PM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:20:28 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 7/31/2026 2:06 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 12:40:32?PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 7/30/2026 3:50 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>> Julian <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:56, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:53:09?PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:29, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:04:17?PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sadly he was proved right. So was I. After I warned in these very pages
>>>>>>>>>>>>> last year that government policy was worsening the fire risk on
>>>>>>>>>>>>> moorland, it gives me no pleasure to say: ?I told you so.?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Matt Ridley
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Indigenous peoples in North America have been conrolling the threat of wild
>>>>>>>>>>>> fires with prescribed/controlled burns for centuries. Canada is looking to do
>>>>>>>>>>>> the same in co-operation with our native people. We have a problem doing this
>>>>>>>>>>>> however because of the acessibility and vastness of our forests. But in a
>>>>>>>>>>>> country the size of Britain (and other European countries), it seems to me
>>>>>>>>>>>> that controlled fires are a no brainer.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Are inaccessible fires in vast forests really a problem?
>>>>>>>>>>> I think they're as likely good for the land's long term health.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> There is that, but an uncontrolled fire can massively grow and send a lot of
>>>>>>>>>> smoke to people populated areas.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> A bit like a volcano.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yeah like that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The northeast US is hundreds of miles from the wildfires yet we've had
>>>>>>> serious air quality warnings this year and last. A few weeks ago it
>>>>>>> literally dimmed the sun for several days, making what was otherwise a
>>>>>>> clear day look cloudy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-smoke-millions-exposed-midwest-northeast-us/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Those pictures are not an exaggeration. That's what it really looked like.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Meanwhile the idiot treehuggers think they know what's best.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am an admitted tree hugger but I am also a realist and think that one answer
>>>>>> here is controlled burning. Another is education and strictly enforced laws
>>>>>> against those who are careless and start fires through laziness and ignorance,
>>>>>> clearing vegetation around and near dwellings and building fire resistent
>>>>>> homes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes I agree. The funny thing is, the idiot treehuggers I'm talking about
>>>>> are killing more trees by not allowing beneficial things like controlled
>>>>> burns.
>>>>
>>>> Asl if tree huggers had the power to allow or not allow anything.
>>>
>>> They vote.
>> 
>> Same as the tree choppers.
> >
>Just for the record you live in a house made out of lumber, right?

Brick mostly.
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