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12 million acres burned so far. Also the fires are creating deadly tornadoes and dry lightening storms. TOO HOT. No hope of containment?

It seems that getting worse is what has to happen before it starts to get better. But the length of time this has taken seems unprecedented to me? An Aussie friend reminds me of the Amazon fires but were they as long lived?

Posted - January 5, 2020
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  • 10701
    The bigger a fire gets the harder it is to contain it.  The bigger a fire gets, the hotter it gets.  The hotter it gets, the quicker it evaporates any available moisture (plants, trees, and such)).  The drier the fuel, the quicker a fire can grow - and so the cycle continues.
      January 5, 2020 2:22 PM MST
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  • 113301
    Vicious cycle. Vicious circle. Oh my. So more fires in more places futurely. Solution? Kill everything that grows. No vegetation no fires? Thank you for your reply Shuhak and Happy Monday! :)
      January 6, 2020 1:12 AM MST
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  • 10701
    No.  

    - Where there's no vegetation, there's erosion. 
    - Without vegetation, many animals and insects die out - many of which are necessary to sustain human life on the planet. 
    - People eat vegetation. No crops no food. 
    - Vegetation respires tons of moisture (from the soil to the atmosphere and vise versa) daily, thus helping to regulate humidity and temperature (ie. forest vs city). 
    - Vegetation takes in carbon dioxide and respires oxygen (daylight only), thus helping to cleanse the air (nature's air purifiers).

    Once a fire is done, things will start to grow back in a very short period of time (nature recycles itself).  However, if salted things won't grow back for many years.  Any salt leached from the soil has to go somewhere - and that's usually downhill.  Therefore, places below the fire will suffer from the salinity as well as the places where the salt water was dropped.
      January 6, 2020 9:47 AM MST
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  • 113301
    On a scale of one to ten, ten being best case and 1 worst what are the odds of homo saps surviving centuries more? We have become stupider it seems to me. At least the movers and shakers are. I'm gonna ask. Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply! :) This post was edited by RosieG at January 7, 2020 3:09 AM MST
      January 6, 2020 11:10 AM MST
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