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ITT: Packard Misunderstands How Fires are Affected by Climate Change


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28 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

Seriously I thought these fires were set by scumbag jerk-off pieces of shit?  Did that turn out to not be true? 

Whenever there's a lot of dried out underbrush, even a cigarette in the wrong place could start a blaze.

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7 minutes ago, smiradenius said:

Whenever there's a lot of dried out underbrush, even a cigarette in the wrong place could start a blaze.

Yeah idk all the specifics but there’s blame going around cuz budget cuts led to the inability to do control burns, or to do them as often as necessary. This fire probably wasn’t started by a runaway cigarette butt, but if it was, that person should go to jail. Htf can someone be as stupid as to flick a cigarette butt anywhere in socal especially during the dry seasons 

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1 hour ago, smiradenius said:

You never saw a sagebrush fire?

Anyway, there are trees on that foothill. 

Well,  no, there aren’t.  If you set foot in LA, you would know that none of the local ranges are forested.  As far as sagebrush, it exists not just in the foothills, but also in open areas like river plains in the basin.  Presumably you know that it’s flammable by design, but it doesn’t spread embers under normal circumstances.  It’s no different than a grassfire, which is what we consider when weeds catch fire.

This fire didn’t spread because some dry native plants and weeds caught fire.  They do that all the time and our infrastructure can easily douse those fires quickly.  This fire spread because the region itself is abnormally dry because of La Niña and the highly unusual placement of the low over the Gulf of California created extremely high winds.

like I told you, not in anybody’s lifetime have we seen hurricane force winds at lower elevations and over wide expanses.

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1 hour ago, 1pooh4u said:

Yeah idk all the specifics but there’s blame going around cuz budget cuts led to the inability to do control burns, or to do them as often as necessary. This fire probably wasn’t started by a runaway cigarette butt, but if it was, that person should go to jail. Htf can someone be as stupid as to flick a cigarette butt anywhere in socal especially during the dry seasons 

Agreed.  

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2 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Well,  no, there aren’t.  If you set foot in LA, you would know that none of the local ranges are forested.  As far as sagebrush, it exists not just in the foothills, but also in open areas like river plains in the basin.  Presumably you know that it’s flammable by design, but it doesn’t spread embers under normal circumstances.  It’s no different than a grassfire, which is what we consider when weeds catch fire.

This fire didn’t spread because some dry native plants and weeds caught fire.  They do that all the time and our infrastructure can easily douse those fires quickly.  This fire spread because the region itself is abnormally dry because of La Niña and the highly unusual placement of the low over the Gulf of California created extremely high winds.

like I told you, not in anybody’s lifetime have we seen hurricane force winds at lower elevations and over wide expanses.

Do you see trees in the inhabited area?  Notice they look the same as what's on the foothill?

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4 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

Yeah idk all the specifics but there’s blame going around cuz budget cuts led to the inability to do control burns, or to do them as often as necessary. This fire probably wasn’t started by a runaway cigarette butt, but if it was, that person should go to jail. Htf can someone be as stupid as to flick a cigarette butt anywhere in socal especially during the dry seasons 

That's the thing... this isn't technically the dry season.  Naturally flicking cigarettes anywhere at any time is bad form, and the liklihood that anyone was standing out in a hurricane smoking a cigarette to begin with seems low, but...  this isn't the time of year when we're supposed to have fire danger.   In fact January and February are technically our wettest months, except when climate change triggers a strong La Nina.  That's not so much an excuse as a stark reminder that we have to do things way differently to prepare for wild fires than we did even five years ago.

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19 minutes ago, smiradenius said:

Then, you're legally blind.  There's no difference whatsoever between the trees in the occupied area and the trees on the foothill.

I live here.  I already told you I've regularly go to Altadena and Pacific Palisades (sometimes on a weekly basis).  I know what's on the hills behind both places.

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8 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

I live here.  I already told you I've regularly go to Altadena and Pacific Palisades (sometimes on a weekly basis).  I know what's on the hills behind both places.

You apparently do not know what's on those hills because you haven't seen them through Google Earth with the eyes of a 'retired' casino janitor from New Jersey. 

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24 minutes ago, katt_goddess said:

You apparently do not know what's on those hills because you haven't seen them through Google Earth with the eyes of a 'retired' casino janitor from New Jersey. 

Do you see the trees in the inhabited area?  Where's the difference between that vegetation and what's on the foothill?

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26 minutes ago, smiradenius said:

Tadaaaa...

 

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Congratulations, you took pictures of a fucking park.  Now all you have to explain how pictures of a fucking park are relevant.  You can start by telling all of us where those parks are located.

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On 1/10/2025 at 1:42 PM, 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.

Is that who that is?

You peeps need to make a cheat sheet for me on everybody's alts

Or just have @André Toulon make a thread with a scooby doo reveal image and the person's name in the bad guy's face

I was wondering why threads kept getting heavily edited. I figured nabs was back though 

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2 minutes ago, molarbear said:

Is that who that is?

You peeps need to make a cheat sheet for me on everybody's alts

Or just have @André Toulon make a thread with a scooby doo reveal image and the person's name in the bad guy's face

I was wondering why threads kept getting heavily edited. I figured nabs was back though 

Lol.  I think Nabs was even stunning for Kenny toward the end.

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9 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Congratulations, you took pictures of a fucking park.  Now all you have to explain how pictures of a fucking park are relevant.  You can start by telling all of us where those parks are located.

Where is that tree lined park?

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On 1/11/2025 at 9:36 PM, scoobdog said:

Congratulations, you took pictures of a fucking park.  Now all you have to explain how pictures of a fucking park are relevant.  You can start by telling all of us where those parks are located.

Pacific Palisades, according to the web page.

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1 minute ago, discolé monade said:

now now friend, she's not been to palisades, she wouldn't know anything about the west coast. 

Let's just assume for minute that there aren't any trees.  Do you think an eighty mph wind can't kick up and spread all the burning sage brush?  It's not like the brush is a dense heavy plant.  It burns like cardboard with kerosene on it.

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Just now, scoobdog said:

 Cool.  At any rate, they’re not anywhere close to the mean, and, yes, those winds were all climate change generated as well.

How long have there been records kept?

Also, remember that we're talking about the "highest recorded".  What's running a close second or third and so not considered newsworthy enough to mention on the internet. 

Not much difference between 80 and 75.

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