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   From: 186282@ud0s4.net   
      
   On 9/23/24 11:46 AM, Paul Aubrin wrote:   
   > Le 23/09/2024 à 00:37, 186282@ud0s4.net a écrit :   
   >>   
   >> Colombian authorities said Sunday they were fighting forest   
   >> fires across seven departments, as a scorching drought fanned   
   >> blazes across Latin America.   
   >   
   > 1.2 °C more has hardly any importance when the ignition temperature of   
   > wood is 270 °C.   
      
      I'm gonna take issue with that because the DEATH TEMPERATURE   
      for most forms of life, including ours, is MUCH lower. On the   
      flip I don't find a 1.2c 'average' all THAT alarming and many   
      factors - physical and statistical - can tick temperatures   
      up and down over years/centuries/millennia.   
      
      Really long term stats, the Earth is just *freezin* right   
      now. The dinos and predecessors (and our itty bitty fuzzy   
      shrew-like progenitors too) lived in a MUCH warmer world   
      for hundreds of millions of years. On the flip there were   
      also a number of "snowball earth" incidents about 1b years   
      ago. "Normal" is a piss-poor term when trying to describe   
      global climate.   
      
   > On the opposite side, fuel accumulation and arsonists have a great   
   > importance. Example :   
   >   
   > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7914203/Nowa-Nowa-pro   
   esters-blocked-burning-East-Gippsland-bushfire.html   
   >   
   >   
   > How a tiny group of Greenie protesters managed to stop backburning in   
   > East Gippsland over worries baby birds would die - before fires ravaged   
   > the area killing four people and forcing mass evacuations from the beach   
   >   
   >      Protesters in Nowa Nowa, in East Gippsland interrupted hazard   
   > reduction burns   
   >      Complaints about deaths of baby birds saw 370ha planned burn   
   > reduced to 9ha   
   >      Firefighters credit backburning in NSW for saving towns from   
   > horrific bushfires   
   >      29 people and 1 billion animals were killed, and 10 million ha   
   > burnt in mega fires   
   >      Do you know others areas where backburning wasn't carried out?   
   > Email: Joshua.Hanrahan@mailonline.com   
      
      
      It's EASY to spot where back-burning and brush-clearing efforts   
      have been thwarted - just get the latest hi-rez thermal images   
      and look for the BIG FIRES  :-)   
      
      Woodlands are mostly MEANT to burn about every five years lest   
      gigatons of debris build up and KILL EVERYTHING when they do   
      finally light up. "Smokey" is an ECO-CRIMINAL (probably in   
      the employ of the timber industry).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)