Fire Season

[linus]

https://twitter.com/yiannisbab/status/1022392992198475777

His piece on Greek land use and fire management is enlightening, but his conclusion about fires becoming more prevalent because of global warming has not been supported by basic empirical evidence.

Many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem, with widely held perceptions both in the media and scientific papers of increasing fire occurrence, severity and resulting losses. However, important exceptions aside, the quantitative evidence available does not support these perceived overall trends. Instead, global area burned appears to have overall declined over past decades, and there is increasing evidence that there is less fire in the global landscape today than centuries ago.

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.o.../1696/20150345

[ad hoc]

He doesn't say that though. He says the dry seasons are getting drier. That's true (in some places), and that is due to climate change. (in other places it will get wetter. In contrast to most of Europe we're experiencing the wettest summer I can imagine in Transylvania)

[Lang Spoon]

How big fires can start small. This could have been disastrous. I'm pretty baffled that anyone would want to make a campfire in these conditions tbh.

Can the dicks who lit the fire be prosecuted? It’s not like Scotland is overrun with non plantation pine forest.

[adams house cat]

I lived in northern New Mexico for a while HP. San Juan County. Fabulous scenery (the Bisti Badlands by the light of the full moon is awe inspiring). It's high desert so there are hot days in the summer and very cold winter nights. The San Juan Mountains are fairly close by and they are spectacular. A drive over Wolf Creek Pass gives incredible views although it can be a dangerous road and they often close it for the winter. The Kit Carson Forest between Chama and Taos also has wonderful views but they do close that road for the winter. For a night out Durango is the place. Not much in Farmington and even less in Aztec or Bloomfield.

There are guns there but there are guns everywhere. Meth is a major problem. It's cheap and easily found. There is racism too, as discussed on another thread.

A plus, if that is your bag, is that marijuana is legal in Colorado so a quick run uo US550 to Durango and you can buy all you want. Be careful driving it back into New Mexico though. The police like to hide near a little hamlet called Bondad just over the state line.

Grass fires are a major problem in the summer. Not like further south and east where there are more forested areas (the Gila burns often). There was bad one between Blanco and Bloomfield a few years ago which destroyed some houses. Started by some imbecile lighting a barbecue. No deaths, thankfully.

The pictures from Greece are indeed terrifying.

[ursus arctos]

Latest on the devastating Carr Fire threatening Redding, California

[San Bernardhinault]

Flying back home from the north yesterday, it felt like almost all of California was covered in smoke. From southern Oregon south there was just a ton of haze and smoke, presumably from the Carr fire; and over the Sierras all of the canyons were filled with deep brown smoke (it was clear on top, but you couldn't see the bottom of Kings Canyon) from the Jefferson Fire. And then near home there's the big fire up near Idyllwild that you could see still going in the San Jacinto mountains, and even closer to home there were two or three small fires going. And, although I've seen no reports of it in the US media, when looking south as we descended to the airport it looked like there was a load of smoke in northern Baja, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were also a ton of fires in Mexico

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1023603284328808448

https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/stat...03284328808448

[Hot Pepsi]

I lived in northern New Mexico for a while HP. San Juan County. Fabulous scenery (the Bisti Badlands by the light of the full moon is awe inspiring). It's high desert so there are hot days in the summer and very cold winter nights. The San Juan Mountains are fairly close by and they are spectacular. A drive over Wolf Creek Pass gives incredible views although it can be a dangerous road and they often close it for the winter. The Kit Carson Forest between Chama and Taos also has wonderful views but they do close that road for the winter. For a night out Durango is the place. Not much in Farmington and even less in Aztec or Bloomfield.

There are guns there but there are guns everywhere. Meth is a major problem. It's cheap and easily found. There is racism too, as discussed on another thread.

A plus, if that is your bag, is that marijuana is legal in Colorado so a quick run uo US550 to Durango and you can buy all you want. Be careful driving it back into New Mexico though. The police like to hide near a little hamlet called Bondad just over the state line.

Grass fires are a major problem in the summer. Not like further south and east where there are more forested areas (the Gila burns often). There was bad one between Blanco and Bloomfield a few years ago which destroyed some houses. Started by some imbecile lighting a barbecue. No deaths, thankfully.

The pictures from Greece are indeed terrifying.

I've been to Durango and fishing just south of there in New Mexico. It was great, and I certainly see the appeal of that area. It's not as expensive or touristy the ski-towns but still has all the brewpups and coffee shops and stuff.

But I've given-up fishing and mountain biking and don't have anything to do with weed.


To me, most of the interior west seems to be like where I live now if somebody turned up the contrast and the color intensity in every direction. Both ends of the political spectrum are more militant and entrenched. The rural places are really rural, and the "cool" places - Boulder, Durango, etc. - are even cooler, but because of that, the cost of real estate and the self-importance of the residents is also a lot greater. The east/midwest is just a lot more temperate in so many ways. Not sure that makes sense. Or if it's even true. But it feels true.

Perhaps I'm just losing interest in civilization in general.

[Sits]

Quite a few fires in our area considering it's winter. Very little rain for a couple of months.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/arturaskerelis/status/1025571578178940928

https://twitter.com/arturaskerelis/s...71578178940928

[San Bernardhinault]

That's an incredible picture. I now read that the Mendocino Fire is actually bigger (as well as less contained) than the Carr Fire. The amount of land that's been burned between the two of them is astounding.

[ursus arctos]

The area burned by the Mendocino Complex fires is already larger than all of New York City.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/IrelandSkycam/status/1025765631013076992

https://twitter.com/IrelandSkycam/st...65631013076992

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1026301902378565632?s=21

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1...378565632?s=21

[Femme Folle]

https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1026236349400186880

[Gangster Octopus]

https://twitter.com/IrelandSkycam/status/1025765631013076992

https://twitter.com/IrelandSkycam/st...65631013076992

Heh, everywhere should do that so you know which country you're flying over...

[ursus arctos]

I’ve always appreciated the roof of Griffin Park alerting one to Brentford’s current sponsor.

[Cal Alamein]

This was put up in Northeast Tulsa many years ago - it still stands.

[Guy Profumo]

https://twitter.com/IrelandSkycam/status/1025765631013076992

https://twitter.com/IrelandSkycam/st...65631013076992

Their navigation skills probably left a lot to be desired if they didn't realise where they were if they were flying over Bray.

[Ginger Yellow]

As I learned a while back from 99% Invisible, there are still a bunch of concrete arrows across America that were built to direct airmail pilots.

[delicatemoth]

That's an incredible picture.

It is, but it's a picture of a sunset.

[Incandenza]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026228024403021824

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026524292396273664

I don't know if anyone can figure out what he is talking about.

[San Bernardhinault]

The Alaska current?

[Eggchaser]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026228024403021824

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026524292396273664

I don't know if anyone can figure out what he is talking about.

Deregulation. It solves everything.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Precursor to an invasion of Canada