Hypothesis: ecosystems in Calif are undergoing a massive, climate-change caused shift and substantially all of the forests in Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Alameda and Solano counties will burn within 20 years. Plus built up fuel from
suppression.
Any good reason to think otherwise?
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Replying to @EggersMatt
I worry about this. One question: What type of human intervention could help adapt these forests to our new and future climate? What scale of human effort and what technologies would it take?
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Replying to @ramez
It's happening so fast I don't think we have the ideas and will and organization to do anything about it. It is only August and sky is already purple and smoky. 5th year in a row we've had major air quality disaster...but usually it doesn't start until late October. FIVE YEARS!
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i'm not an expert on this, but one of my friends from long ago was a fire ecologist who would often point out that the mega fires are a result of the fact that we've been *preventing fires* which causes a build up of fuel. before western settlement, iirc, 5% of cali burned/yr
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