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August 2025 Summer Thread


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4 minutes ago, BrianW said:

They have the best firefighting aircraft and pilots in the world. Why arent we seeing Canadair CL-415 Super Scoopers making runs?

Probably for the reason Brian mentioned. Let the natural forest burn now to make it more fire resilient in the future. 

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They have the best firefighting aircraft and pilots in the world. Why arent we seeing Canadair CL-415 Super Scoopers making runs?

Maybe not near enough to a body of water suitable for scooping. Fires are huge/remote and there ain’t that many planes. Might as well get used to the smoke. It’s probably the future or atleast foreseeable future.
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57 minutes ago, champy said:

 

Tan your pale boomer body while your grandkids suffer from your disregard for climate change. You and Tolland should get married

What exactly would you like me to do? Lol I actually accepted the world is warming 2 decades ago just not a doomsdayer like you chump.What exactly is a boomer? Some one like me who worked full time while taking 18 plus credits and summer courses to get a degree to advance myself? Someone who worked 2 jobs or 70 to 90 hrs a week to support an ever growing family.? Someone who went to local board meetings to beg for local environmental change? I help raised 9 well rounded kids now 8 all who also work hard and are responsible inhabitants of the rock. 

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25 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

Probably for the reason Brian mentioned. Let the natural forest burn now to make it more fire resilient in the future. 

If there’s no threat to life or property… absolutely let it burn.  It’ll be after our lifetimes when that forest burns again.

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2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Social media magnifies everything now. There’s probably an uptick with more people hiking and camping out there and starting more fires. Summer 02 had a real smoke day with low ceilings and vis down to 1-2sm. 

a bunch of the fires are nowhere near people

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It seems like I've read a few papers related to climate change enhancing the northern latitude forest growth around the hemisphere.  Entering a CC-related dry bias extending several seasons ... --> wild fire frequency increases. 

Whom and/or what is lighting the proverbial match?   If those are relatively constant while fuels increase... more fires.

Climate change effects interior continental geography, differently, in time.  For example, increased wet/growing seasons initially causing surplus carbon stows above land.  Then, as climate changes furthers along creating extremes of drying vs wetting that can extend longer than single seasons and boom.    Not very difficult to see where that's going...

Suspiciously, this seems 'probably' to be a situation where the fuels were improving over time, while the triggers remain relatively constant.  Pure speculation, but given to the known CC relationship with creating extended periods of unusual mid continental drying, there's some intuitive basis to the idea of 'creating firestorm' proneness.  

 

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2 hours ago, OceanStWx said:

Probably for the reason Brian mentioned. Let the natural forest burn now to make it more fire resilient in the future. 

 The Boreal forest, in both east and west hemispheres, have usually been created and regenerated by fire since the glaciers retreated.

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