[Roman_War_Criminal]

[gibsonguy]

The California Fires are a new HELL on Earth”

That could and should have been prevented.

[Dr. Sivana]

After looking at that photo, can Orcs be far behind?

[Larry Lucido]

Hair on fire headline.

Lots of words that say little.

Ah, here we go.

CLICKBAIT! SEE IF SOMETHING HAPPENS!!

(Excerpt) Read more at strange....

[faithhopecharity]

Everybody including the previous conquerors (the so-called native anericans” and all fire personnel know —- that California’s new policy In the last couple decades of NOT cleaning out forest floors and not clear big firebreaks only serves to create these big fires. Over and over again the lefty eco-idiots never learn even the most basic facts about fire prevention and public safety.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

"I love you so much Mr. Tree! So much that my stupidity is going to let you burn to the ground! I put the 'Mental' in EnvironMENTALism!"

[SE Mom]

This is a fascinating piece- thank you for posting.

It seems we could learn a thing or two from American Indians and the way they managed fires to keep forests healthy.

[wildcard_redneck]

The next disaster to hit California will be mudslides when the rainy season finally comes.

[Long Jon No Silver]

The writer obviously has no knowledge of the Cretaceous era wild fires that accompanied the asteroid impact back then, if he thinks wildfires in California are a new kind of hell on earth. But earth history only began when Gore invented the internet or sonething /s

[Chode]

wonder where their Spotted owl lives now and do they think it was worth it???

[Inyo-Mono]

"As he read all this stuff, Finney told me, something clicked. “I realized, ‘Oh, my gosh, we’re creating the conditions for mass fires,’” he says. “These fires aren’t just big because of, say, climate change or some accident. They’re big because we have a landscape full of long-burning heavy fuels, just like cities.”

Exactly. Are you reading this Mr. Climate Change Gov. Newsome?

[calenel]

Siberia has more and bigger forest fires. Every year. Also started by people. #TheWorldIsMyAshtray

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Holy BLEEP.

Compelling article. Extremely informative. It sounds like our future in the west is devastating and there is no changing that fact.

One more reason to move away from California. As if I needed another reason.

[Pollard]

As he read all this stuff, Finney told me, something clicked. “I realized, ‘Oh, my gosh, we’re creating the conditions for mass fires,’” he says. “These fires aren’t just big because of, say, climate change or some accident. They’re big because we have a landscape full of long-burning heavy fuels, just like cities.” The key ingredient

The key ingredient in a firestorm, whether in a wartime bombing campaign, a plume-driven fire like the Carr, or a wind-driven fire like the one that destroyed Paradise, appears to be the simultaneous burning of many small fires in a combination of light and heavy fuels over a large area with light ambient wind.

As that broad area continues to burn with glowing and smoldering embers over many hours, the separate convective columns of all those many little fires begin to join into a single, giant plume. As the hot air in that plume rises, something has to replace the air at its base—more air, that is, sucked in from all directions.

This can create a 360-degree field of wind howling directly into the blaze with the same effect as vents on a forge, oxygenating the fire and pushing temperatures high enough to flip even heavy fuels (giant construction timbers, mature trees) into full-blown flaming combustion.

Those heavy fuels then pump still more heat into the convective column, creating a feedback loop: The column rises ever faster and sucks in more wind, as if the fire has found a way to stoke itself.

That reminds me. I need to clean up my little 14 acre forest. I cleared the perimeter to fence it in and left a lot of branches laying around, plus there's a lot of standing dead wood and existing floor dead wood and many years of leaf litter. It's also a crowded little forest from having been logged of most everything in the 1800s when they were mining iron ore and needed fuel for smelters. Prior to that, they logged oak for railroad ties and building wood.

A young forest has a lot of standing dead wood because it's still self thinning as the trees fight for sun. I have 50 tall thin trees where 10 healthy trees should be and 5-10 of the 50 are standing or recently fallen dead wood.