Exactly.SeattleGriz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 5:09 pmThe climate always changes. Whether it's detrimental is a different topic.UNI88 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 5:01 pm
Over simplification. Poor forestry management likely played a part (it has in Oregon's fires) but extreme weather conditions (drought) resulting from climate change also played a part.
You can argue how much humans are contributing to climate change (only an idiot argues they aren't contributing at all) but our climate is changing regardless of the cause.
These massive wildfires are almost entirely due to forest manage decisions- deciding to suppress instead of just letting nature run its own course by letting them burn as they did back in the early 1900s and prior. I get it- can’t let homes amd businesses burn down. But if you’re going to suppress, you have to constantly harvest timber amd clear undergrowth, which meams you meed lots of roads (not ‘roadless wilderness’), equipment, people, and $$$$. But if you’re going to suppress and not going to do/allow that, you’re going to have these Dante’s Inferno fires with the libs caterwauling about ‘Climate Change’.