Re:Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of Bone...
by lhorie on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:24PM
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> Fires happened all the time in the last million years
No offense, but this sounds awfully like the "temperature rises occurred before" rhetoric, while ignoring magnitude[0]
Yes forest fires can be natural, but for this specific one, another comment upthread mentioned it potentially being linked to a history of illegal logging. The melting of the polar cap has been documented fairly thoroughly, and I already mentioned the existence of studies about extreme weather. We know for fact that there's a strong relationship between our polluting ways and arctic ice melting, and that there's a relationship between that and extreme weather events. Hopefully it shouldn't take a PhD to figure out irresponsible human-made logging fires + record high temperatures are a recipe for disaster(tm)
Personally, I think we're a little past the "show us the data" territory. "Seriously, WTF?" might be more in order at this point.
No offense, but this sounds awfully like the "temperature rises occurred before" rhetoric, while ignoring magnitude[0]
Yes forest fires can be natural, but for this specific one, another comment upthread mentioned it potentially being linked to a history of illegal logging. The melting of the polar cap has been documented fairly thoroughly, and I already mentioned the existence of studies about extreme weather. We know for fact that there's a strong relationship between our polluting ways and arctic ice melting, and that there's a relationship between that and extreme weather events. Hopefully it shouldn't take a PhD to figure out irresponsible human-made logging fires + record high temperatures are a recipe for disaster(tm)
Personally, I think we're a little past the "show us the data" territory. "Seriously, WTF?" might be more in order at this point.
[0] https://xkcd.com/1732/