The scorching heatwaves in Europe, Asia and America provide a glimpse into Australia’s near future and suggest the impacts of global warming might have been underestimated.
    • 🦘min0nim🦘English
      5·
      11 months ago

      I think we won’t have a lot of fires this year. It’s been really wet for a while and the dense bush need consistently hot days to dry out enough to burn.

      If it stays dry for the next couple of years though, we’re going to be screwed again. I imagine some places will be like western sydney and north NSW in the floods - no point rebuilding if it burns down every 5 years.

      • hitmyspotEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Where are you that there has been lots of rain. It’s raining today in Sydney but it’s been one of they driest winters I recall.

        • 🦘min0nim🦘English
          1·
          11 months ago

          You’re right, but funnily enough the last few years have been quite wet. You may remember a flood or 2 if you cast your mind back…

          • hitmyspotEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Yes, the effects of climate change and la Nina and el Nino are real. I completely agree. And I’ve had the mould to prove it, despite being nowhere near any flood areas. However bushfire risk tends to be based on current conditions of dryness, not historical.

  • veroxii@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    I love regionally and I think we’re going to have intense bush fires. There is so much undergrowth which is already drying out.