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mailman,
The Aussie gum trees are pyrophytes; they're well adapted to fire, but don't *require* fire in their lifecycle. It just gives them an evolutionary advantage when fires come. I think the American redwood is another pyrophyte. There are other Aussie trees (e.g. some species of banksia) that only seed in fire. Oddly enough, they don't seem all that keen on getting burnt themselves, but I guess leaving a next generation on bare ground works ok for them.
I think the eucalypts are largely a scapegoat in the California fires. As for the NSW fires of summer 2019/20, the media did quite a lot to magnify them — fanning the flames as it were — because they fitted the catastrophic warming story so nicely. All soon forgotten with the COVID capers.
Thought this talk on the California fires got into it pretty well.
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Thanks for that. I widened its audience by one. Rather depressing. It expanded the scale of cynicism for me. Thought I was well towards the upper limit, but those Labour machine creatures leave me in their dust.
It might be time for the charge of treason to come back into vogue.
Alternatively and, although it goes against the grain to propose yet another law, how about passing a law that any public official who fails to take steps to prosecute a known crime will stand with or in the place of the culprit in the crime.
Would be a forceful assertion that every law is important. Might require knocking some anachronistic laws off the books. It might also get some pushback from the enforcers on the ever-expanding set of laws they supposedly uphold. Sounds ok to me.
tomo,
Was speaking on the phone with my brother yesterday afternoon when the power went out here. I told him and he said they'd had a blackout early that morning. He's about 30km away in SW Sydney. Rolling blackouts here already?
Robert Swan
Your lights haven't gone out - it's your fevered imagination....
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1881087714004787545
tomo
This seems to need a wider audience
https://youtu.be/6egrJ5Vi0o4
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Regarding the California fires, one thing I had forgotten about that contributed hugely to the Great NSW's fires was the types of trees that were allowed to invade residential communities and councils forcefully stopped people from clearing deadfall was Eucalyptus trees.
These trees are incredibly dangerous as they require fire as part of their lifecycle and because of that they are highly combustable!
And of course what kind of tree has spread through California like...pardon the pun, wildfire...our friend the Eucalyptus tree.
It seems leftists are quite incapable of learning any kinds of lessons that involves actual public safety that doesnt involving feelings and a desire to be oppressed.
mailman
tomo,
In Douglas Adams's B Ark strategy, he had the useless people sent away while the As and Cs stayed at home. It might be time for you to run the complement of that strategy. As and Cs leave Britain in the hands of the B Arkers. They're already running the place. Better to watch the disaster from outside.
I'll be even less active here than usual. Apparently a big lightning storm went through last night while I was out. Workstation and server computers both suffered injury. The router too. What I've been able to cobble together this morning is instructing me in patience. Browser is ponderous. YouTube slower still.
Just one of the lesser victims of "climate change".
Robert Swan
Some context I came across on "LA burning"
https://revolver.news/2025/01/if-you-think-cali-fire-management-is-bad-wait-until-you-hear-the-secret-firefighters-cant-reveal/
I see that Starmer et al want to police pub speech - can't actually see who's behind it though - almost as if they don't have the cohones to defend their gag order.
https://youtu.be/A9kewyVdE6M
tomo
Pcar,
thanks for the links. It might have all been a bit depressing, but the funny bit was like waking up from a bad dream (only to be greeted by Mother saying No dear, this is the dream).
mailman,
Yep. Energy at the wrong time is a problem. My house is a bit warm in summer, and rather chilly in winter. On average, it's pretty good. Just a matter of storing that summer surplus energy for use in winter. I mean, how hard can it be?
Dare we hope this willl be the ultimate monument to Net Zero? Yes Minister's hospital with no patients was satire; this school with no students, farce.
Robert Swan
pcar,
Dont forget that last week the left was celebrating renewable energy providing the bulk of the UK's energy requirements last year!
Funny thing is...all that energy being supposedly available is a little pointless if it cant be made available when its actually ended, ie. when it is cold and dark.
mailman
Enjoy:
Forget China. With Policies Like Net Zero, Britain is its Own Worst Enemy
By Ben Pile
Britain once had a cheap, abundant and reliable source of energy, and had 24-7 supply of power
Shortly after the turn of the century, energy prices were a third of what they are now. But then Britain was quickly gripped by green ideology.Faster than the...
The then `Opposition´, the party from which Nick Timothy now speaks, was not worthy of the epithet. Rather than challenging the Government´s attachment to environmentalism, it said that Labour´s commitment was insufficient...
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Lord David Frost: Starmer’s rule has barely begun and already we’re on the verge of blackouts
Power cuts or a run on sterling? Myriad disasters could destroy Keir. But who will pick up the pieces?
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We Can Expect Energy Blackouts In The Next Two Years: Net Zero Is Raising Energy Prices
Alex Phillips & director of Net Zero Watch, Andrew Montford to discuss the rising energy prices and how they affect the UK
Andrew explains that 'weather extremities aren't getting worse' and that the UK only amounts to 'one percent of global emissions' meaning in comparison to the countries such as India and China, 'we are an irrelevance'
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Blackout Britain: UK Came Very Close On Wednesday As Wind Power Failed
Independent energy analyst Kathryn Porter & Mike Graham
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We Will Face More Of This: UK Gas Storage At Concerningly Low Levels Says British Gas
Peter Cardwell & co-founder of Climate Debate UK, Ben Pile
Centrica said the UK now has less than a week’s worth of demand for gas in store. On Thursday, stocks at UK gas storage sites were 26% lower than the same period last year, leaving them about half full, the energy giant said
Gas inventory levels have come under pressure due to Uniparty Net Zero lunacy
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Have a laugh and a great week
Pcar
That rang a bell for me....
My dealings with "The Ombudsman" (PHSO) in the UK and extracting evidence of criminal wrongdoing by officials at The Environment Agency in particular...