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Well If global warming is occurring (which I think it is) it would make forest fires more severe no matter the source of it. But yes there would also be a lot less forest fires in general if it wasn't for man and his incessant need to start fires, it's as if all those folk tales about dragons burning the land to a crisp was written about us, we are the unnatural mythical fire breathing dragons who wreck havoc on the land.
Also the Carr fire in northern California was started by a flat tire, so that one wan also not started naturally.
Just in the interest of accuracy, the fire started by the man who was just arrested (which is called the Holy Fire; it started about 3 miles from my house), is NOT the same as the "largest fire in California history," which is the Mendocino fire many hundreds of miles to the north. The news headline is very misleading about that.
I couldn't be happier that they arrested this foul monster. The air is so bad at my house today that I don't even want to go outside; I'm certainly not going to ride my bike as I originally planned to do--it would be like smoking 200 packs of cigarettes. The last time we had a fire this bad in those mountains, it took a month to put it out and it really only went out because the weather finally changed and it rained. That was in October though; it's not going to rain in August, so who knows how long we'll be living in this smoky haze.
Sure, some fires are started by lightning or by genuine accidents like a car fire, but seems like these days, the majority are arson. It's always dry in California by late summer, always has been and always will be. I have a hard time blaming global warming, climate change, or even drought for the increase in fires over the past few years. The main problem is rotten people who get a charge out of burning things up.
Well If global warming is occurring (which I think it is) it would make forest fires more severe no matter the source of it. But yes there would also be a lot less forest fires in general if it wasn't for man and his incessant need to start fires, it's as if all those folk tales about dragons burning the land to a crisp was written about us, we are the unnatural mythical fire breathing dragons who wreck havoc on the land.
Also the Carr fire in northern California was started by a flat tire, so that one wan also not started naturally.
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