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Screenshot of some of the fires currently burning on the US west coast...
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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EOSDIS Satellite view of the west coast:
My first photo shows all fires, including new within the last 24hrs that are still <1 acre.
This is everything over 100 acres.
S01e01 of “extrapolations” feels very close now.
Such a great show...the later episodes are terrifying
Wrong. Eventually everything flammable will burn away and they wont have anything to worry about.
It doesn't work that way. You let unmanaged burns happen and it converts forest to chaparral and chaparral to grasslands. The resulting plant communities grow a lot when it rains, and then burn when they dry out
I was just goofing.