dtolman
6461
Blaming this on Arson like its a unique condition to this year is shortsided and lacking context. There are always arson lit fires - the 2009 bushfires for example was similar to this year in that it was actually hundreds of fires, many from arson, many from natural causes. Arson is evergreen - heck - here’s an article from last season about it.
The differentiator for fire seasons like 2009, and 2020, is not psychology - its meteorology. Temperatures are very high. Vegetation is super dry. Fires spread way more easily in these conditions.
The fact that temperatures keep increasing, and these seasons are becoming more and more common is where climatology comes in. This year is not the new normal. Its the fondly remembered prelude before really really huge conflagrations become the new normal. But hey - at least we’re keeping both the coal miners AND the firefighters gainfully employed this way!
Tman
6462
I was just going to reply to this saying he’s like the 4th person in the past year who comes into this community and beellines it straight towards P&R like the honeypot it is, and has almost identical posting attributes - quite frankly I was surprised that @Sharpe hasn’t copied/pasted his list of identifiable characteristics of a shit poster and then I noticed the handle.
golf clap to the mods
draxen
6464
Someone explain to me why we’re celebrating being unwelcoming to a new member?
Do we want QT3 P&R to be an echo chamber?
Isn’t the whole point to discuss different political views?
Reemul
6465
Maybe you need to re read his trolling posts
draxen
6466
I had a quick skim through but couldn’t see anything incendiary. However it says the account is banned as it’s an alt account from a banned poster. So I assume the mods checked IP addresses or something.
He was also posting in some gaming threads, for what that’s worth.
Tman
6468
It’s not that it’s incendiary, it’s a pattern of posting known right speaking points with no intention of debating in good faith and with a huge dollop of “why are you attacking me” whining.
Although I was giving this poster creds for actually posting in non-PR for the first time ever. Maybe if they had done that for a month before jumping into P&R it might have been better. They are learning.
I see he’s gone in the meantime. Still, for reference, since I did the work.
I can’t tell you about Australia, as there probably isn’t a report yet. However, I can tell you the report of the second biggest fire in Portugal.
Section 5.4.2, google translated (pretty well, I’d say), emphasis mine
It is important to note that fire activity is not only determined by drought as a structural basis and meteorology as a conjuncture of risk. Continued aridity has the effects of greater time availability of all vegetation to burn, resulting in continuous or extended fire campaigns, creating conditions for large fires more easily and quickly than under the “normal” situation regime. The concept of “dryness” of fuel has been related in the U.S. to the increase in forest fires in size and severity (ABATZOGLOU & WILLIAMS 2016). This concept is related to climate change and contributes to the past extreme fire regime gradually becoming the current normal fire regime (WERTH et al. 2016). Spring and especially June weather conditions led fuel ‘dry’ conditions. June 2015-2017 along with the 2003-2006 quadrennium were the warmest since there are records, coinciding with the years of larger fires (FERNANDES et al 2016) . There is however a significant difference between 2017 and the years 2003-2006, which makes the concept of “aridity” of fuel reached its maximum in Portugal by making a hot June to a hot spring happen, this combination is what basically differentiates the 2017 campaign from the big fire years of the recent past. There was an advance of the first extreme fires of the year to June, when in the past they had always occurred in late July and early August. This change is a clear impact of the effect of climate change on contemporary fire regimes (WESTERLING 2016). We again highlight the accumulation of heatwave days during spring and especially during June 2017 in Portugal. This year is thus the clear exponent of a new arid Dean type, adding the structural drought of winter and spring to the exceptional heat wave with epicenter on June 16-19 and coinciding with the two fires.
However, arson convictions are up,, whether due to tighter laws, higher enforcement or simply more twats I can’t tell for sure.
Last time he was banned, there was a lot of emphasis by posters that he only came into P&R, so this felt like a reaction to that. He was careful to post in the gaming threads this time as well.
Back on topic: I read a lot of apocalyptic science fiction back when I was young. What I think none of them got right is the present situation, which is that the apocalypse will come, and as the world starts to burn, my mind will be on my next work meeting that’s coming, or if I’ll bother having lunch today. I have a forum friend on facebook who had to abandon her home to a fire, and had to drive for two days until she finally saw a blue sky for the first time. And yet, here I sit, just another day, concerned about regular work stuff.
Nesrie
6472
If only some people have suggested this might be a tactic. But hey, the attempt to engage was there at least on one side.
Anyway, small aside here, a few of our local chains are trying to combat take home, one-time use disposable containers by introducing reusable containers with a deposit that you can bring in to get santized, cleaned, and get a new one. It’s an… interesting if small idea.
I mean, it’s working! I was on the fence about climate change and his really bad arguments have convinced me that it’s just arson. If we could just arrest all the arsonists then climate change and forest fires go away. Simple!
KevinC
6474
Seriously, WTF is this guy’s major malfunction? He’s very dedicated to arguing in bad faith on Qt3 of all places. Just… why??
CraigM
6475
Well a few hours away in the Portland metro, Hillsboro and Beaverton banned plastic grocery bags last year, and give a few cents off if you bring your own reusable bags.
My understanding is this is state wide now? It worked well enough here, for me at least. Already had the bags since Aldi back east never had grocery bags to begin with. It has been bring your own since I was a kid.
Nesrie
6476
Yes. It is now statewide. You have to pay five cents for a bag at any store. I have already habitually gotten used to using my reusable bags for groceries, but it’s still a little jarring when I make a sudden stop at like Michaels for Christmas stuff.
My issue is… sometimes I just to forget them from my car, as in didn’t put them back in the trunk. I have plenty of them, but you leave suddenly and darn it, left your bag behind. Also not sure what to do with the ones that are falling apart because I use them so much… my early ones are probably pushing 6 years now.
It will be curious to see how much this changes behavior because frankly, five cents isn’t enough. I mean… we didn’t even think it was enough for cans which went to 10 cents.
CraigM
6477
This is so familiar. Especially since we have a collection for both my wife and I. Nominally we each have 3-4, but invariably after I go grocery shopping they wind up on the hooks… then in her car. And god forbid I have an unplanned trip for some eggs or bread. Lol, whoops!
I grab bags like that every year when I go to trade shows. So I have a few extras now. This used to happen to me after the first time I went to a trade show and only had two bags. But after a few years of going to the local trade show, I now have two bags I regularly use, then 4 backup bags in my car, and 2 bags in my wife’s car. So usually I’m always covered when I go to Aldi now.
Nevertheless, I’m looking forward to going to the trade-show in town again in February. More bags!
Nesrie
6479
I probably have between a dozen to twenty bags that I picked up, and then 3 of the nicer folds out and remains a rectangle bag. They’re just so… useful that they’re typically drafted for other things than shopping, even by friends and family, so I go for the net in my car and they’re just gone, and then next month all of them are there.
Or Heaven forbid you go shopping with someone else in their car! I don’t carry them in my purse.
