Muhamed Islamovic the fires in my hometown (I live in napa which is mentioned in this video) were caused by pge power lines, very low humidity, and extreme winds. Not some freak laser man.
Muhamed Islamovic same thing though bro. They’re still looking but either a camp fire (hence the name) or pge set it off. Not a laser. And weather fueled the fire. Same thing down towards la.
No mention of prescribed fire by the people who were here before us? The native peoples of California burned the land annually for many reasons. One reason was to reduce the fuel load in which fires feed off of (Annual grasses and shrubs). I feel like the traditional ecological knowledge of fires needs to be resurrected and implemented.
lt totally does. But you know there are several reasons why people don't want to allow/accept/promote prescribed fire. All the education in the world isn't going change the minds of those people who refuse to listen to reason and ecological principles.
There are quite a few: People have been conditioned to believe fire is bad. The Smokey Bear Effect. Trees are pretty...we shouldn't burn them. Mistrust of government/burn co-op operations. Concerns of air quality. Concerns of visibility. Concerns for wildlife. Fear of mismanagement leading to uncontrolled burns. Burned landscape looks bad. Misunderstanding or NO understanding of PF's purpose or necessity and thereby rejecting it simply out of ignorance. A person's negative previous experiences regarding fires in general. I'm sure there are probably more, but those are the ones I can think of off-hand from research I've had to do.
The video stated controlled burns are harder now because more people are moving into forested areas. It's hard to have burns right next to people's backyards.
Complex problems do require *complex solutions.* Maybe it would be wise, if every community wold burn or harvest parts of their dry grass to create buffers without fuel for the fire.
or just mow the lawn, as mentioned football fields and parks are excellent firebreaks because they have short grass and maintained that way. Here in Australia we also have a massive fire season. all these things are mandatory in urban planning and we institute tough laws about carelessness, now every fire season, very few people die because of it.
harvest the dry grass, the dry trees, the dry undergrowth in the forests, the piles of leaves etc. unfortunately it is very illegal :) in most of the "civilized" world
I'm from Sutherland shire, in an area prone to bushfire. 20 odd years ago, it swept through the area and took out Barden Ridge. The cinders were rolling across the highway as my dad drove past it. This year, we had a close call when it burn through the golf course. Always remember to prepare for the fire. Never underestimate the fury of mother nature.
It's because the US is ruled by corporatist sociapaths which drain the people economy to fuel their war economy...and themselves. Richest country the face of the earth has ever seen, but the most basis needs of the people are not met. Ironically a lot of Americans think of this as "freedom"...
A PG&E transformer was literally the reason the town of Paradise was leveled a week ago in a wild fire. It is now the deadliest wild fire to ever happen in CA. Over 40 people have died and hundreds are still missing.
This channel is growing pretty fast. Last time I checked how many subscribers this channel has, it was only 140k subscribers. Now it has 244k subscribers. Well done Verge Science.
I grew up and still live in northern/ central CA. Wildfires are year round sometimes. There are months where it is MUCH worse. The central valley gets very very bad during the summer. There is visible ash in the air TODAY. Its looks like fog and it falls into water and on our cars.
One thing that was not mentioned , is that wild fires are also a naturally occurring event , and in boreal forests they are necessary for the germination and regrowth of certain tree species , as well as removing the duff from the forest floor . For almost 100 years the attitude was for total fire mitigation, any forest fire that started had to be extinguished immediately , this has caused an unnatural build up of duff ( forest floor debris) and old dead or dying trees . Now when a forest fire starts , they become huge fast moving infernos due to the unnatural build up of fuel ( duff and stead and dying trees ) that feeds them , and they are almost impossible to extinguish. I lived through one of the largest forest fires in Canadian history , and it was truly devastating , but now when I go into the forest it is incredibly lush and green , and the wildlife is repopulating the area extremely fast because of the new growth nutrition. I do agree that people need to rethink where they choose to live , and especially how their house is built and how their yard is landscaped to lessen the wildfire impact , and populated areas must have large areas surrounding land dedicated to fire breaks .
As a wildland firefighter myself, I'd say individual homes yes, communities, no. As long as the resident, takes into account of the possibility of an impending natural or man made disaster. And prepares their property for said scenario. Other than that, I highly suggest we focus on our cities, revamping their infrastructure to become living cities, full of green houses, solar and wind powered electricity, rain catch and air purification systems, a grid like public transportation system, etc. Cities similar to Poalo Soleri's vision, Biosphere II, etc. Ones that are self sustainable that not only benefit us, but the environment. That way, we can live in a more clean, comfortable, and convenient society while leaving less of an impact on the natural world outside of the city limits, to be able to enjoy both aspects of life.
It’s better than vox, whom have become overpoliticized as of recent times. and yes, I am a conservative, but that’s not why I am talking bad about vox, it’s just that they used to have a good bit of unbiased stuff but now it’s overpoliticized garbage (whether overpoliticization is left or right leaning, it often times makes the content it affects garbage)
minute 4:35 exhaust does not create spark !!! yes an exhaust system is very hot and it can heat up dry branches or leaves very quickly and possibly ignite them but they don't create any type of electrical current that could lead to a spark.
If dry materials get very hot they can sometimes also ignite without a spark. Any combustible materials has an ignition point, I can't imagine that dry grass would be very high.
It's called "conduction." Doesn't require a spark. Any car with a cat can do it, especially if it's not functioning at 100% which, from what I've seen, is most of them. Vicky's right, but it doesn't even require the metal to come out. All it takes is a consistent misfire.
Being in Redding when the Carr Fire was running through it was one of the strangest experiences of my life. The Carr Fire was started from some RVs tire blowing out.
We're not likely to get it because of monoculture. Monoculture destroys the essential ground plants that PREVENT fire from spreading. If humans stepped toward more sustainable methods of agriculture, the likelyhood of wildfire like this will be reduced drastically. One example is Portugal (I lived there for two years) the country plants SO much Eucalyptus, its insane... practically the entire forest life of Portugal is now Eucalyptus or Olive trees. Eucalyptus eats the essential minerals and nutrients from the soil, killing off lower tier and mid tier plants that are designed by nature to refract light, create resisting buffer zones built of many species and create a more precipitated humid environment that reduces hugely the effects of fires like this. When you destroy natural diversity there are natural consequences.
A forest fire has been on the doorstep of my parents house since Sunday, and italian air support will arrive tonight. Freakishly hot summer here in Sweden and most of them set of by lightning (according to the reporters)
If people who live in the forest don't listen to this video then they only have themselves to blame!!!! We really should get around to doing something about the global warming one of these days! This video is fascinating!
Keep this up please. Your videos are so informational and helpful that it just completely surprises me that there's even a channel like this here on a platform that's pretty much full of clickbaiting and 20 minute videos with content that should only last around 6-10. Greatly impressed. Amazing work. Thank you. ❤❤❤❤
PG&E planned a public power shut off, but the actual caribou-palermo 115 kv transmission line which caused the fire was not part of the power shut off. It wouldn't of mattered anyway.
The EPA all but prohibits Cal Fire from conduct those control burns. Thank you for not making air quality an issue. You couldn't resist the temptation to bring climate change into it, but thank you for not making a statement like, "California's already polluted air makes control burns all but infeasible."
This is super interesting, would be handy if you guys could have a bit of a bibliography in your video description so we could have a look through some of the materials also.
There is a difference in Electrical companies, campers, intentional fire starting, but why is the burning so much hotter than ever before, especially on the west coast. I began my research traveling to Mount Shasta in California in 2012. Mount Shasta is considered to have the purest snow in the United States. About halfway up the 14,180 ft. but stopped as soon as a found good snow, took four samples from four areas, then had them tested. The tests showed what I thought I would find, three nanoparticles of three metals, Aluminum, Barium, and Strontium, otherwise known as Chemtrails. Not to be confused with Con Trails which dissipate quickly, Chemtrails linger. The idea behind it is to reflect the suns rays back out into space, I spoke with a Fire Chief who fights these forest fires, he told me the metals and chemicals they have found on a supposed healthy tree is making them burn. He told me, "It's on the grass, leaves, bark, rooftops, it's in our water and animals who drink from ponds and streams." He pulled down a small limb with leaves on it, asked me to run my finger over half the leaf, once I did, the part I wiped was more green than the other half, took a few leaves and tested them, and found the same three metals, under a microscope you can see them clearly, but cannot identify the chemical. Chemtrails also make clouds in odd-looking formations, these clouds can become highly charged given the right conditions and will shoot lightning when those conditions are met. In more humid areas, they become heavy with what will be rain, sometimes extreme amounts of rain. To this very day, Meteorologists still cannot explain Hurrican Harvey. It made landfall first at Port Aransas which is a small Island City, made landfall again near Corpus Christi, Tx. at Rockport. Then makes a strange move back out into the warm Gulf then sits over Galveston/Houston area, and stayed there raining for four straight days, some places measured as much as 62", even in north Houston (Harris County) and the city itself. On day five it begins leaving Texas into Lousiana. Living here in Houston, we've seen our share of Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, but when you see thousands of homes (mostly two-stories) with water over the lower roof, and some underwater up to the mid-second story all over the city. In the past 8-9 years, I have never seen the World's Climate do some odd and unexplainable patterns. Climate Change is not natural, it's man made. The video I am going to post was due to Outraged citizens and farmers, which is why John Brennan made this short speech at the CFR, confirming what we all knew anyway, he just legitimized what we already knew. ruclips.net/video/ZMQhT6Yi5eI/видео.html
It will get increasingly relevant because drying is increasing over all and snowpacks are melting earlier because earths yearly temperature was increased by 1° c since the start of the 20th century, the snow packs melting earlier means that water dissipates earlier and that means the driest part of the seasons becomes longer. California is the driest state in the US with ocean winds, thats why there are more fires. Alaska is actually warming faster, I personally am not sure why, maybe because the melting of the ice sheets. You can look at charta of the amount of acres burned in California in the last 30 years and there is a noticeable consistant increase. Warming from anthropogenic climate change will cause increased desertification globally.
There needs to be a proper cost-factor analysis on how much power line fires will cost the state against how much to bury the cables. Could be an obvious investment.
How about planting drought resent trees providing shading for the grass so they don't dry out as well as give the ground roots to hold it in place during the flooding.
“Keep humans out of the wild”... “Forest closures”... I was all in until I heard that. This is a tragic problem that calls for several solutions. However I don’t think such extreme measures are nesecary.
_How can a more sustainable/ecological approach to urban design minimize wildfires?_ is a interesting question in which the solution could yield valuable results. But I'm no expert in that so
In the comment section, There were a lot of channel praises (well deserved) and some 'usual youtube comments'. But Didn't see anyone mention the impact on the animals in the region, the channel included
How is the necessity of clearing dead wood and selective cutting not mentioned? Especially with the focus on California that has not been do enough in that area.
I love this channel - the information, presentation style, and video quality is just perfect. The content is very clear and easy to understand. These videos are very interesting and so much fun to watch.
FYI: When I look at INCIWEB's information on current fires burning in the Northwest almost all of them are listed as having been started by lightening, not man.
You can't burry high power electrical lines for long distances, the capacitance between the wires and the earth is huge compared to when the cables are suspended, that wastes lots of power and isn't really sustainable
If power lines are suck an issue. Why is there no legislation stating that its necessary for all new lined must be burried and all old lines must be phased out?
Asking why Americans won’t burry their power lines is like asking why not everyone switches to a more long-term eco-friendly $100k+ Tesla. It’s economics. Quite frankly, I don’t even think we should be using power lines anymore, but we need to understand how our reality right now if we’re to minimize future hurt from these man-made wildfires. I wish all those in California the best during such a harrowing time as this. A friend from snowy Michigan 👋🏽 -\Float (pseudonym).
It's really sad that we lose human lives because of our own stupidity, of course we need to stop building in fire-prone areas but we can't blame people for doing that since it's hard to leave a place you lived in for years and to just go venturing into another state or country to find other homes.
Ton, the issue is not necessarily because we live in fire prone areas....a huge part is just simply the abundance of fuels....especially thick dense brush. People need to keep cut stuff way back and thin it out. A huge problem is the tall dry grass though....it grows back every year and is a flashy fuel that allows fire to spread at dangerous rates
Maybe you should study the IFM - Integrated Fire Management. Come to Brazil, state of Tocantins to know the work done by IcmBIO Chico Mendes Institute of Biodiversity in Quilombola communities located in the Conservation Units: Jalapão State Park and Serra Geral Ecological Station. They have managed to drastically reduce fire outbreaks with the involvement of communities, businesses and government.
These are go points but if you go back and look at history wild fires happened every couple of years and it kept all of the brush down and only burned the bottom parts of the trees. But as we keep putting out all of the fires the brush gets bigger and higher until a fire does occur then the brush fires are much bigger then burning all of the trees then creating your “wild fires”. If would have only protected our homes and let the forests burn every couple of years without stopping them we would have mild fire that do way less damage. But it’s most likely to late.
...why did you not report on the fact that the countries that came before California (and are stuck within an American apartheid system under reservations) ALL controlled fires and depended on it, and disrupting the human cycles of burning means that these fires have becomes so so so much worse
You don't start fire's with an exhaust spark, your exhaust is hot and starts the dry grass burning your exhaust IS NOT shooting sparks. Next subject, how a car exhaust works.
Very informational. But I don't see the main solution working (people out of the wilderness) because like they said in the video housing market in CA is BAD ($$). Idk..
Why they don't mention about more fire 🔥 proof building materials, concrete home don't burn, but they will rebuild with wood and roofing shingles , its not the definition of insanity doing the same thing and inspecting different results , 🤷♂️😜
well you can built things with asbestos that dont cause cancer, because the problem with asbestos is that it has so long fibres.. but if those fibres are glued into a material propperly... well. And you can built the houses differently so that concrete doesnt get too many hits. I think its called "swimming anchor". + you can use some steel in it...
Should we keep building (and rebuilding) in fire-prone areas?
Idk
Yes indeed!
Have you a plan to make a video about lithium?
Build with brick like the UK
Verge Science should look for new aspects.
I just realized this video came in July, I thought it came this week after the current fires. Still relevant.
Muhammad Mirsab current fires are product of lasers that America is testing to control population and concentrate them on specific places.
Muhamed Islamovic the fires in my hometown (I live in napa which is mentioned in this video) were caused by pge power lines, very low humidity, and extreme winds. Not some freak laser man.
@@samholland3865 I'm talking about the 🔥 in California that happened last week
Muhamed Islamovic same thing though bro. They’re still looking but either a camp fire (hence the name) or pge set it off. Not a laser. And weather fueled the fire. Same thing down towards la.
Sam Holland please sir watch this video:
ruclips.net/video/fGELCTS5rH8/видео.html
I can't wait for new videos. This type of channel is really informative and entertaining.
No mention of prescribed fire by the people who were here before us? The native peoples of California burned the land annually for many reasons. One reason was to reduce the fuel load in which fires feed off of (Annual grasses and shrubs). I feel like the traditional ecological knowledge of fires needs to be resurrected and implemented.
lt totally does. But you know there are several reasons why people don't want to allow/accept/promote prescribed fire. All the education in the world isn't going change the minds of those people who refuse to listen to reason and ecological principles.
@@angieemm I'd be curious to hear their reasons for not wanting prescribed fire...
There are quite a few: People have been conditioned to believe fire is bad. The Smokey Bear Effect. Trees are pretty...we shouldn't burn them. Mistrust of government/burn co-op operations. Concerns of air quality. Concerns of visibility. Concerns for wildlife. Fear of mismanagement leading to uncontrolled burns. Burned landscape looks bad. Misunderstanding or NO understanding of PF's purpose or necessity and thereby rejecting it simply out of ignorance. A person's negative previous experiences regarding fires in general. I'm sure there are probably more, but those are the ones I can think of off-hand from research I've had to do.
The video stated controlled burns are harder now because more people are moving into forested areas. It's hard to have burns right next to people's backyards.
Yeah theyll just keep blaming global warming and have a slow solution to fix their environment.
Man, these videos deserve more views. They’re really well done
I just discovered them wooo
That's a lotta damage
Justin y u do dis... at least moisturize
Let’s fix it all up with some flex seal
Yo stop stalking me
I see you everywhere
I SAWED THIS BOAT IN HALF
Complex problems do require *complex solutions.*
Maybe it would be wise, if every community wold burn or harvest parts of their dry grass to create buffers without fuel for the fire.
epSos.de should have animals eating the brush.
or just mow the lawn, as mentioned football fields and parks are excellent firebreaks because they have short grass and maintained that way. Here in Australia we also have a massive fire season. all these things are mandatory in urban planning and we institute tough laws about carelessness, now every fire season, very few people die because of it.
harvest the dry grass, the dry trees, the dry undergrowth in the forests, the piles of leaves etc.
unfortunately it is very illegal :) in most of the "civilized" world
Didnt think that that unnatural short grass would be actually able to serve a purpose....
Yeah sure, most of California is dry plants
SO EXCITED for where this channel is headed. Great work.
Now I want to work at The Verge
*Yet another useful video*
Hats off to the man behind the camera, the video looks truly beautiful
I'm from Sutherland shire, in an area prone to bushfire. 20 odd years ago, it swept through the area and took out Barden Ridge. The cinders were rolling across the highway as my dad drove past it.
This year, we had a close call when it burn through the golf course.
Always remember to prepare for the fire. Never underestimate the fury of mother nature.
When is this channel going to grow and become big? The content here is awesome.
Umm this channel just started hold your horses
Right?! This channel is way better than seeker/ D news.
Cause it's liberal propaganda
Richard Amador lol oops I let them all go
They have another channel called the verge, its bigger than this cause this one is new
1:07 - walks into fire country with a giant lens pointed at the sky
"Remember. People start fires."
lmao
*UNDERRATED*
But... Billy Joel told me we _didn't_ start the fire
I don't even understand why power lines in the United States are still attached to wooden poles. OF COURSE they easily get destroyed by wind...
Jamushroom It’s because most of America doesn’t have the proper budget to bury or use another material.
1. Cheaper
2. Easier to fix when broken/innovate
3. Conduction is a lot easier
It's because the US is ruled by corporatist sociapaths which drain the people economy to fuel their war economy...and themselves.
Richest country the face of the earth has ever seen, but the most basis needs of the people are not met. Ironically a lot of Americans think of this as "freedom"...
Excellent drone footage! Top notch! Loved it!
A PG&E transformer was literally the reason the town of Paradise was leveled a week ago in a wild fire. It is now the deadliest wild fire to ever happen in CA. Over 40 people have died and hundreds are still missing.
Like I said before, this channel is growing fast. Verge Science got more than 2000 subscribers under 19 hours.
This channel is growing pretty fast. Last time I checked how many subscribers this channel has, it was only 140k subscribers. Now it has 244k subscribers. Well done Verge Science.
I grew up and still live in northern/ central CA. Wildfires are year round sometimes. There are months where it is MUCH worse. The central valley gets very very bad during the summer. There is visible ash in the air TODAY. Its looks like fog and it falls into water and on our cars.
Great channel. Important and interesting information from every video. Thanks for your job!
One thing that was not mentioned , is that wild fires are also a naturally occurring event , and in boreal forests they are necessary for the germination and regrowth of certain tree species , as well as removing the duff from the forest floor . For almost 100 years the attitude was for total fire mitigation, any forest fire that started had to be extinguished immediately , this has caused an unnatural build up of duff ( forest floor debris) and old dead or dying trees . Now when a forest fire starts , they become huge fast moving infernos due to the unnatural build up of fuel ( duff and stead and dying trees ) that feeds them , and they are almost impossible to extinguish. I lived through one of the largest forest fires in Canadian history , and it was truly devastating , but now when I go into the forest it is incredibly lush and green , and the wildlife is repopulating the area extremely fast because of the new growth nutrition. I do agree that people need to rethink where they choose to live , and especially how their house is built and how their yard is landscaped to lessen the wildfire impact , and populated areas must have large areas surrounding land dedicated to fire breaks .
As a wildland firefighter myself, I'd say individual homes yes, communities, no. As long as the resident, takes into account of the possibility of an impending natural or man made disaster. And prepares their property for said scenario.
Other than that, I highly suggest we focus on our cities, revamping their infrastructure to become living cities, full of green houses, solar and wind powered electricity, rain catch and air purification systems, a grid like public transportation system, etc. Cities similar to Poalo Soleri's vision, Biosphere II, etc. Ones that are self sustainable that not only benefit us, but the environment.
That way, we can live in a more clean, comfortable, and convenient society while leaving less of an impact on the natural world outside of the city limits, to be able to enjoy both aspects of life.
this is built like a VOX video
Vox reposted it so I assumed it was theirs...
And it's not??
I would have never noticed.
The Verge is a property of Vox Media.
@@TheAxlin it all adds up. Thank you!
It’s better than vox, whom have become overpoliticized as of recent times. and yes, I am a conservative, but that’s not why I am talking bad about vox, it’s just that they used to have a good bit of unbiased stuff but now it’s overpoliticized garbage (whether overpoliticization is left or right leaning, it often times makes the content it affects garbage)
I live in Santa Rosa CA that October night will forever feel like it was just yesterday.
minute 4:35 exhaust does not create spark !!! yes an exhaust system is very hot and it can heat up dry branches or leaves very quickly and possibly ignite them but they don't create any type of electrical current that could lead to a spark.
Festival,
Maybe not....but, a malfunctioning catalytic converter could spit little pieces of extremely hot metal out of the exhaust, causing a fire.
If dry materials get very hot they can sometimes also ignite without a spark. Any combustible materials has an ignition point, I can't imagine that dry grass would be very high.
It's called "conduction." Doesn't require a spark. Any car with a cat can do it, especially if it's not functioning at 100% which, from what I've seen, is most of them. Vicky's right, but it doesn't even require the metal to come out. All it takes is a consistent misfire.
This channel no doubt is one of the best in its niche. Way better than The Verge😜 got me hooked to science more than technology 😂
Being in Redding when the Carr Fire was running through it was one of the strangest experiences of my life. The Carr Fire was started from some RVs tire blowing out.
We're not likely to get it because of monoculture. Monoculture destroys the essential ground plants that PREVENT fire from spreading. If humans stepped toward more sustainable methods of agriculture, the likelyhood of wildfire like this will be reduced drastically. One example is Portugal (I lived there for two years) the country plants SO much Eucalyptus, its insane... practically the entire forest life of Portugal is now Eucalyptus or Olive trees. Eucalyptus eats the essential minerals and nutrients from the soil, killing off lower tier and mid tier plants that are designed by nature to refract light, create resisting buffer zones built of many species and create a more precipitated humid environment that reduces hugely the effects of fires like this.
When you destroy natural diversity there are natural consequences.
My school is on a hill and cause of the fires in October the smoke came all the way down to my city and school was cut for 3 days
Keep going to school CAUSE you will learn very well'ly.
I would be interested to see a video on DEW weaponry and it's uses- all facts no hype.
We need aquaman
Cody’slab knows about fire season first hand.
Jerry Rupprecht what? Can you explain?
Austin Smith He had a fire on his ranch
Ask William Osman
Stefan Schmax too soon
I love Verge Science videos!!!
A forest fire has been on the doorstep of my parents house since Sunday, and italian air support will arrive tonight. Freakishly hot summer here in Sweden and most of them set of by lightning (according to the reporters)
If people who live in the forest don't listen to this video then they only have themselves to blame!!!! We really should get around to doing something about the global warming one of these days! This video is fascinating!
Keep this up please. Your videos are so informational and helpful that it just completely surprises me that there's even a channel like this here on a platform that's pretty much full of clickbaiting and 20 minute videos with content that should only last around 6-10. Greatly impressed. Amazing work. Thank you. ❤❤❤❤
PG&E planned a public power shut off, but the actual caribou-palermo 115 kv transmission line which caused the fire was not part of the power shut off. It wouldn't of mattered anyway.
The EPA all but prohibits Cal Fire from conduct those control burns. Thank you for not making air quality an issue. You couldn't resist the temptation to bring climate change into it, but thank you for not making a statement like, "California's already polluted air makes control burns all but infeasible."
in our country, there is heavy work being done to put all power lines underground. this country is a lot smaller than the USA though...
This is super interesting, would be handy if you guys could have a bit of a bibliography in your video description so we could have a look through some of the materials also.
I thought that the thumbnail was from Command and Conquer : Generals. Miss that game so much
Dear verge science, please add sources in description. Specifically, the studies mentioned, and the names of the researchers, or research teams.
Just wanted to say that I absolutely love this channel.
There is a difference in Electrical companies, campers, intentional fire starting, but why is the burning so much hotter than ever before, especially on the west coast. I began my research traveling to Mount Shasta in California in 2012. Mount Shasta is considered to have the purest snow in the United States. About halfway up the 14,180 ft. but stopped as soon as a found good snow, took four samples from four areas, then had them tested. The tests showed what I thought I would find, three nanoparticles of three metals, Aluminum, Barium, and Strontium, otherwise known as Chemtrails. Not to be confused with Con Trails which dissipate quickly, Chemtrails linger.
The idea behind it is to reflect the suns rays back out into space, I spoke with a Fire Chief who fights these forest fires, he told me the metals and chemicals they have found on a supposed healthy tree is making them burn. He told me, "It's on the grass, leaves, bark, rooftops, it's in our water and animals who drink from ponds and streams." He pulled down a small limb with leaves on it, asked me to run my finger over half the leaf, once I did, the part I wiped was more green than the other half, took a few leaves and tested them, and found the same three metals, under a microscope you can see them clearly, but cannot identify the chemical. Chemtrails also make clouds in odd-looking formations, these clouds can become highly charged given the right conditions and will shoot lightning when those conditions are met. In more humid areas, they become heavy with what will be rain, sometimes extreme amounts of rain.
To this very day, Meteorologists still cannot explain Hurrican Harvey. It made landfall first at Port Aransas which is a small Island City, made landfall again near Corpus Christi, Tx. at Rockport. Then makes a strange move back out into the warm Gulf then sits over Galveston/Houston area, and stayed there raining for four straight days, some places measured as much as 62", even in north Houston (Harris County) and the city itself. On day five it begins leaving Texas into Lousiana. Living here in Houston, we've seen our share of Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, but when you see thousands of homes (mostly two-stories) with water over the lower roof, and some underwater up to the mid-second story all over the city. In the past 8-9 years, I have never seen the World's Climate do some odd and unexplainable patterns. Climate Change is not natural, it's man made. The video I am going to post was due to Outraged citizens and farmers, which is why John Brennan made this short speech at the CFR, confirming what we all knew anyway, he just legitimized what we already knew. ruclips.net/video/ZMQhT6Yi5eI/видео.html
I am in love with Verge science and Rachel Becker.
30 seconds in I already knew theyd blame global warming
It will get increasingly relevant because drying is increasing over all and snowpacks are melting earlier because earths yearly temperature was increased by 1° c since the start of the 20th century, the snow packs melting earlier means that water dissipates earlier and that means the driest part of the seasons becomes longer. California is the driest state in the US with ocean winds, thats why there are more fires. Alaska is actually warming faster, I personally am not sure why, maybe because the melting of the ice sheets. You can look at charta of the amount of acres burned in California in the last 30 years and there is a noticeable consistant increase.
Warming from anthropogenic climate change will cause increased desertification globally.
There needs to be a proper cost-factor analysis on how much power line fires will cost the state against how much to bury the cables. Could be an obvious investment.
I wanted to watch this cause my friend moved to California 3 years ago and I miss her so I watched this
Power lines also behave different underground. The complete energy delivery system would have to be recalculated.
It's rare that I click on a notification so fast these days.
Uncommon to everyone
How about planting drought resent trees providing shading for the grass so they don't dry out as well as give the ground roots to hold it in place during the flooding.
“Keep humans out of the wild”... “Forest closures”... I was all in until I heard that. This is a tragic problem that calls for several solutions. However I don’t think such extreme measures are nesecary.
_How can a more sustainable/ecological approach to urban design minimize wildfires?_ is a interesting question in which the solution could yield valuable results.
But I'm no expert in that so
Stay safe, California.
In the comment section, There were a lot of channel praises (well deserved) and some 'usual youtube comments'. But Didn't see anyone mention the impact on the animals in the region, the channel included
How is the necessity of clearing dead wood and selective cutting not mentioned? Especially with the focus on California that has not been do enough in that area.
I love this channel - the information, presentation style, and video quality is just perfect. The content is very clear and easy to understand. These videos are very interesting and so much fun to watch.
FYI: When I look at INCIWEB's information on current fires burning in the Northwest almost all of them are listed as having been started by lightening, not man.
Inciweb is for the national forests I thought?
You can't burry high power electrical lines for long distances, the capacitance between the wires and the earth is huge compared to when the cables are suspended, that wastes lots of power and isn't really sustainable
Erin Brockovich needs to get ahold of this one!
If power lines are suck an issue. Why is there no legislation stating that its necessary for all new lined must be burried and all old lines must be phased out?
Asking why Americans won’t burry their power lines is like asking why not everyone switches to a more long-term eco-friendly $100k+ Tesla. It’s economics.
Quite frankly, I don’t even think we should be using power lines anymore, but we need to understand how our reality right now if we’re to minimize future hurt from these man-made wildfires.
I wish all those in California the best during such a harrowing time as this.
A friend from snowy Michigan 👋🏽
-\Float (pseudonym).
Add a fire station every street and get more area just for fire stations.
This is just such a good channel ! It’s needs more attention ! 🔥
People literally be singing Hellfire in Cali lol 😂
You have to do controlled burns. Controlled burns make all of this preventable. Other states do them and do them well.
Wasn't the initial title of the video "What wildfire devastation look like from above"?
What’s the backing track called in this video?? I really like it lol
It looks like those trees are pretty LIT
It's really sad that we lose human lives because of our own stupidity, of course we need to stop building in fire-prone areas but we can't blame people for doing that since it's hard to leave a place you lived in for years and to just go venturing into another state or country to find other homes.
Ton, the issue is not necessarily because we live in fire prone areas....a huge part is just simply the abundance of fuels....especially thick dense brush. People need to keep cut stuff way back and thin it out. A huge problem is the tall dry grass though....it grows back every year and is a flashy fuel that allows fire to spread at dangerous rates
Lightning. Main cause of this season's fires. Not man made. Also, what about goats? Most adorable fire prevention method in existence.
Damn like 60% of these open space shots I recognized as being in my town
What about the fires in bc Canada, we lost at least 7 towns and cities in a massive fire I am sad now 😔
Maybe you should study the IFM - Integrated Fire Management. Come to Brazil, state of Tocantins to know the work done by IcmBIO Chico Mendes Institute of Biodiversity in Quilombola communities located in the Conservation Units: Jalapão State Park and Serra Geral Ecological Station. They have managed to drastically reduce fire outbreaks with the involvement of communities, businesses and government.
how come power lines aren't insulated like our regular cords?
These are go points but if you go back and look at history wild fires happened every couple of years and it kept all of the brush down and only burned the bottom parts of the trees. But as we keep putting out all of the fires the brush gets bigger and higher until a fire does occur then the brush fires are much bigger then burning all of the trees then creating your “wild fires”. If would have only protected our homes and let the forests burn every couple of years without stopping them we would have mild fire that do way less damage. But it’s most likely to late.
In my part of the state the carr fire destroyed basically our whole city
Just so you know you cant burry AC power lines under ground, it has to be converted to DC, and this is no feasible
...why did you not report on the fact that the countries that came before California (and are stuck within an American apartheid system under reservations) ALL controlled fires and depended on it, and disrupting the human cycles of burning means that these fires have becomes so so so much worse
Verge science? Felt like Vox to me. (not complaining, great quality).
Well put and very informative
You don't start fire's with an exhaust spark, your exhaust is hot and starts the dry grass burning your exhaust IS NOT shooting sparks. Next subject, how a car exhaust works.
Lol it's so expensive to live here it's always a state of emergency
Your content is so well done... you need more views!
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≤3°Δ will not put you at increased risk of wildfires. Take it from an expert.
smart policies are needed to prevent this
So raking the forest floor like they do in Finland isn't the solution?
Owners and cities should build underground power lines
Coat the wires on the power lines with rubber or grahene
Just read a study that found carbon rises because of temp rising , not the other way around.
bro these fires scary asf I hope they never come to the bay area
Very informational. But I don't see the main solution working (people out of the wilderness) because like they said in the video housing market in CA is BAD ($$). Idk..
Thanks for sharing, great video. It would have been nice if you mentioned the role of humans killing off the passenger pigeons.
That is scary I'm very upset about all of this
Why they don't mention about more fire 🔥 proof building materials, concrete home don't burn, but they will rebuild with wood and roofing shingles , its not the definition of insanity doing the same thing and inspecting different results , 🤷♂️😜
Flatdog Sound & Light California is an earthquake prone state. It doesn’t sound like a good idea to build every single building out of solid concrete.
And asbestos is cancerous. Hopefully they won't resort to that. It's banned in Europe etc. but not in US
solana G I thought it was banned in US because cancer? Does anyone here use it?
Tech Freak it is banned in the US
well you can built things with asbestos that dont cause cancer, because the problem with asbestos is that it has so long fibres.. but if those fibres are glued into a material propperly... well. And you can built the houses differently so that concrete doesnt get too many hits. I think its called "swimming anchor". + you can use some steel in it...
Why is the property tax their so expensive if it's always burning down
Is there a link to the soundtrack used in this video? I love songs like this
Well, we gotta ram our heads against the wall a couple of times before we decided that it's less painful and a better idea to find the door.