2019_Australia

Fuel loads not climate, caused the 2019 fires.

The hottest temperature ever recorded in Australia using standard equipment (a mercury thermometer in a Stevenson screen) at an official recording station is 51.7 degrees Celsius (125 degrees Fahrenheit) at the Bourke Post Office on January 3, 1909.

It's never been as hot since; when dry scrub isn't cleared and burned off, fuel loads for wildfires ensure they will happen. This practice was abandoned in 1919 and wildfires have gone up since.


2019-California

Power lines cause fires

PG&E used their money to overpay execs instead of maintaining their infrastructure, so now there will be power outages so their power-lines don't cause more fires.

Keep mind the comic strip "Dilbert" by Scott Adams is a lampoon of Adams' previous employer: PG&E.



Wildfire smoke is beneficial to B.C.'s coastal waters, oceanographer says

Particulate matter from fires a 'sort of fertilization' for top layer of Pacific Ocean.

While medical experts were warning British Columbians about the risk of inhaling fine particulate matter from the thick wildfire smoke that hung over much of the province during the last week of summer, marine experts were happy to see those same particulates infiltrating the Pacific Ocean.

According to B.C. oceanographer Richard Dewey, associate director of science with Ocean Networks Canada, particulate matter from burning forests that ends up in the ocean acts as fertilizer, providing minerals and nutrients to phytoplankton that live near the surface and are the base of the ocean's food system.

Phytoplankton are a large variety of aquatic microoganisms that perform photosynthesis, just like land-based plants do.


http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145421/building-a-long-term-record-of-fire

NASA: wildfires dropped since 2003 by 25 per cent.





benefits: Wildfire smoke is beneficial to B.C.'s coastal waters, oceanographer says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/smoke-ocean-benefits-1.5735444


less: NASA: wildfires dropped since 2003 by 25 per cent.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145421/building-a-long-term-record-of-fire