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ITT: Packard Misunderstands How Fires are Affected by Climate Change


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6 hours ago, smiradenius said:

An unpopular opinion:  Man made climate change is not science.  It's a cult religion, complete with extremist fanatics. 

You also think smoke having a smell is some kind of mass hallucination, so.....

You aren't prone to "unpopular" opinions so much as you're virtually exclusive to dumb ones.

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2 hours ago, smiradenius said:

The California wild fires are the direct result of government incompetence and corruption. 

Here’s an unpopular opinion:  apparently, people would rather believe absurdly stupid shit like this than acknowledge that climate change means we have to change how we live.

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13 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Here’s an unpopular opinion:  apparently, people would rather believe absurdly stupid shit like this than acknowledge that climate change means we have to change how we live.

Climate change had nothing to do with any of it.  It's about cutting millions dollars off the fire department, the non functional hydrants and not having had the underbrush cleared out.

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On 1/10/2025 at 8:01 AM, smiradenius said:

Climate change had nothing to do with any of it.  It's about cutting millions dollars off the fire department, the non functional hydrants and not having had the underbrush cleared out.

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Alright @smiradenius - let's discuss all the reasons you have no idea what you're talking about.

  1. The winds that generated and propelled this fire are the result of shifting global weather patterns.  When the atmosphere heats up, so do the oceans.  When the oceans heat up, they impact how and where energy in atmosphere distributes.
  2. The fires in LA did not happen in an area with there was brush, they happened in suburban tracts.  This is a result of extreme winds, irrespective of the source.
  3. Water infrastructure is one of the first things impacted by a wildfire.  It doesn't matter how much water is stored in reserve.  When a wild fire is spread rapidly, no water system ever conceived could provide enough water fast enough to properly address a raging fire on multiple fronts.  This is why water and repellant drops by aircraft are usually the first and best means of stopping a wild fire spread.
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You would think his dumb ass would understand these things since New Jersey deals with wild fires all the time and this last autumn we got fucked by all the fires that were going on. Luckily there were no high winds to make it even worse.

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30 minutes ago, stilgar said:

You would think his dumb ass would understand these things since New Jersey deals with wild fires all the time and this last autumn we got fucked by all the fires that were going on. Luckily there were no high winds to make it even worse.

I guess there isn’t much to burn in Mays Landing, except for the trash that gets dropped there.

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Just now, smiradenius said:

The Santa Ana winds are nothing new.  It's not climate change.  They have been a prevailing pattern for thousands of years.

 

The fires could have been prevented by clearing out the underbrush (the stuff that kindled the fires)

You came!

Tell us more about where Santa Ana winds come from. Aren’t they usually out of the east, southeast? 

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1 minute ago, scoobdog said:

You came!

Tell us more about where Santa Ana winds come from. Aren’t they usually out of the east, southeast? 

Doesn't matter where they came from.  They're not new at all and none of our cabon emissions have changed them one way or the other. 

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5 minutes ago, smiradenius said:

The Santa Ana winds are nothing new.  It's not climate change.  They have been a prevailing pattern for thousands of years.

 

The fires could have been prevented by clearing out the underbrush (the stuff that kindled the fires)

Goddamn, the stupid comes too fast.

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Just now, smiradenius said:

Doesn't matter where they came from.  They're not new at all and none of our cabon emissions have changed them one way or the other. 

I beg to disagree.   Would the fire have spread if they were coming off the ocean?

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Just now, naraku360 said:

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[Packard responds with something incredibly stupid]

Now, let's talk about prevention.  Why wasn't the kindling cleared out?  Why were the reservoirs drained?  Why were tens of millions of dollars for training, staffing and equipment for fire fighting cut off the budget?

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6 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

We’re talking climate change.   You said it had no bearing on wind direction.

No, we're talking about why the kindling hadn't been cleared, why tens of millions of dollars for ttraining, staffing and equipment for fire fighting have been cut off the budget and why the reservoirs were empty.  The winds were just simply doing what they had always done.

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1 minute ago, smiradenius said:

No, we're talking about why the kindling hadn't been cleared, why tens of millions of dollars for ttraing, staffing and equipment for fire fighting have been cut off the budget and why the reservoirs were empty.  The winds were just simply doing what they had always done.

What kindling would there be in a suburban tract?

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19 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

You came!

Tell us more about where Santa Ana winds come from. Aren’t they usually out of the east, southeast? 

He couldn't resist...my money was on him making his own thread but I guess when you're edging, you gotta get in while the getting is good

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Just now, André Toulon said:

We're talking about climate change.

Packard: I don't know shit about that but AM radio said it's a lie so it all about kindling now

Where does climate change fit into a lack of preparation or prevention in these fires?

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4 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Alright @smiradenius - let's discuss all the reasons you have no idea what you're talking about.

  1. The winds that generated and propelled this fire are the result of shifting global weather patterns.  When the atmosphere heats up, so do the oceans.  When the oceans heat up, they impact how and where energy in atmosphere distributes.
  2. The fires in LA did not happen in an area with there was brush, they happened in suburban tracts.  This is a result of extreme winds, irrespective of the source.
  3. Water infrastructure is one of the first things impacted by a wildfire.  It doesn't matter how much water is stored in reserve.  When a wild fire is spread rapidly, no water system ever conceived could provide enough water fast enough to properly address a raging fire on multiple fronts.  This is why water and repellant drops by aircraft are usually the first and best means of stopping a wild fire spread.

Bullshit.

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