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Not enough people understand the fuel load issue with wild fires. Eco-mentalists are making wild fires inevitable by lobbying to ban cold burning of ground load and that isn't getting covered by the media because it doesn't fit the narative.
Round here the moors are almost entirely given over to grouse shooting which involves controlled burning in small patchworks to stimulate the heather to produce new young growth which is what the grouse eat. Eco warriors like Packham are trying to get grouse shooting and heather burning banned - purely as part of their class war - but the justification they give is that burning destroys the peat substrata which is a major carbon sink. That is bollocks. There was a bloke on GBNews yesterday who represented the shooting community who described an experiment they put on to explain this fallacy to the ecomentalists. They invited some of them to witness a controlled heather burn on a grouse moor. Before lighting the brush they placed a chocolate bar on the bare soil underneath the heather. Then they carried out the burn. It's usually only a small area of a few acres and doesn't take very long. When the flames had died down and the ground was cool enough to walk on they went and retrieved the chocolate bar. It hadn't melted at all.
Where I live you can drive for an hour and see nothing but moorland as far as the eye can see but wild fires are practically unheard of because the landscape is managed with controlled burning. Down south where there is no grouse shoot management of heath and moorland the build up of the fuel load is horrendous. Dartmoor, Exmoor, the heaths of east Anglia and the Poole basin in Dorset are tinderboxes. They used to be managed with cold burns but the EU and now the eco lunatics have stopped it. The result is catastrophe. It's not "climate change" that makes wild fires more likely, it's idiot politics from people who know nothing about land management.
Same as stopping dredging/clearing rivers, drains, ditches etc means when there is heavy rain rivers burst their banks as the water can`t flow away and downstream fast enough. Otherwise known as Global Warming causes flooding.
....and reintroducing beavers.
That's a case of man's intervention (dredging) helping the situation - when it's not done, that's when you see 'changes'. Not because of the climate.
My brother lives at Arnside where the Kent Estuary goes out into the Irish Sea. Over the 30 or so years he's been there the tidal flow has changed naturally as it's never somewhere that would be dredged. At one time each tide flowed up to the sea wall at Sandside - now it doesn't get within 100 feet of it except on the highest tides. Over time it will change again as the build up of residue affects the far side of the estuary, and slowly removes the current build on on the near side.
It's just natural change that will have gone on forever.
Correct. That was what caused the catastrophic flooding of the Somerset Levels a few years ago. The abandonment of dredging and watercourse management was then down to EU regulations. Those should have been repealed when we left. Instead the eco loons have doubled down on them.
Farmers, landowners and land management experts have been predicting these flood and fire disasters for years but no one in government listens to them as the eco zealots seize on every disaster to push their climate change fantasy. We've now reached the point of self-parody where the drive to net zero is actually causing the floods and fires it is supposed to protect us from.
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In the case of the Somerset Levels, that management is necessary because the Levels are an entirely man-made environment. Left to nature, the Levels would be (and always were until they were drained in the 17th century) an uninhabitable feverish swamp. Hence all the Arthurian legend connected with the place and the mythic Isle of Avalon at Glastonbury Tor which would once have been an island in a swamp.
When man changes a landscape artificially to suit his own purpose he has to maintain it and manage it constantly or nature will reclaim it. The eco fools don't seem to understand that the landscapes of the British Isles are overwhelmingly man-made. There is little or no wilderness in these islands that hasn't been shaped to some extent by man. Even the remotest Scottish highlands have been changed from their natural form by forestry and livestock grazing. The landscape is not a Farthing Wood theme park that reverts to fairy-tale prettiness if you remove human intervention. When you cease land management you quickly learn why it was introduced in the first place.
I'd be all in favour of "rewilding" and allowing the land to revert to its natural form. But if that were to happen these islands could not support 80 million people. You'd be lucky it it supported 2 million. From that point of view, bring it on as far as I'm concerned. But you can't have your cake and eat it.
That would be 'fire' then, not 'wildfire'
When I was in primary school in the 1970's we were taught about summer fire risks. We were encouraged to go out into the play ground to burn leaves (and ants and each other...) with magnifying glasses so we understood the fire risks of glass and sunlight. We knew about this stuff before we were ten years old. We knew that discarded bottles could trap small rodents and kill them. We knew it was idiotic to throw cigarette ends out of car windows. We had experts visiting schools to give talks and show films about all sorts of stuff from fire safety to staying safe on farms and building sites where we were likely to play, to even how to clean our teeth properly.
Now it seems supposedly intelligent adults are ignorant of these basic facts of life and need politicians to talk down to them like babies. The adults have become children. How did this happen?
Now it seems supposedly intelligent adults are ignorant of these basic facts of life and need politicians to talk down to them like babies. The adults have become children. How did this happen?
By design, as is everything. Make the population dependent.
The vast majority of people in the UK would starve if all shops and restaurants were wiped out.
They never went away they were just harder to see in the "Wild"
Plus the UK governments puts levies on fossil fuels to make it look like they're more expensive than renewables when left to the free market the opposite would be the case.Must be that those countries have got their own oil and gas reserves right? I know Norway does so the rest probably do too…
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And huge subsidies for renewable bollocks
Israel and Norway yes, the rest don't have their own indigenous oil and gasMust be that those countries have got their own oil and gas reserves right? I know Norway does so the rest probably do too…
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Suffolk Fire caused by climate change? Maybe not
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Australian aborigines have been practicing cold burning to clear away ground fuel promote fresh growth and encourage game for tens of thousands of years. White settlers followed their example and wildfires were kept to a minimum. Then in the early 21st century some know-nothing urban ecomentalist liberals who thought they knew better banned the practice because it was "bad for the environment" and now the place routinely goes up in flames. Go figure..Suffolk Fire caused by climate change? Maybe not
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When the sea gives up land in one places it takes it away somewhere else. Same with rivers. You can't stop coastal erosion and deposition. It's natural and ocean levels are an unchanging constant. As such, the sea's impact is predictable. Rivers aren't like that. Their levels change wildly according to seasons and rainfall. If you squeeze a balloon in one place it bulges outwards somewhere else. Rivers need to be managed from source all the way to the sea and that joined up thinking and planning doesn't seem to exist with our inland waterways.