• krunklom@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    I’m not arguing against you but it does scan that if years of deadfall have been accumulating there would be more severe fires more frequently than if shit was left alone.

    Doesn’t mean climate change isn’t contributing.

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      4 hours ago

      Sure, but I would reverse the order. Things like accumulating deadfall, droughts, lumber monocultures can be related to the start and maintainance of fires. Without climate change these would happen at a certain rate. Climate change accelerates and intensifies the effects of all of it. Like, people get sick from all sorts of things, but if you’re also an overweight smoker that doesn’t exercise, each time you get sick is going to be more of a nail-biter than if you were in general good health. Like, yes, the street meat you just ate can’t be good for you, but if you were generally healthy it wouldn’t be as much of a danger of being catastrophic.