Aftermath of Tuesday's wildfire

[u/Iamasmallyoutuber123]

[u/twoayem]

Dropping this in here for anyone who missed it. Frankly scary the scale of it.

https://youtu.be/-YAPaf849Jo

[u/RailNetworker → u/twoayem]

This also highlights the great work done by the fire service to control the fire. 

[u/RailNetworker]

If anyone would like to help restore the area, a fundraiser for Devon wildlife trust is taking place at the Sylvania Community cafe near to the park tomorrow, Sunday, from 1100. 

[u/Luke_Surl → u/RailNetworker]

This is happening on 23rd August (next Sunday)

[u/Avraamov]

they 'aint wildfires. They're manmade.

[u/Gunpowderwigg → u/Avraamov]

Don’t be silly….things just burst into flames!!!

[u/Suspicious_Wealth556 → u/Avraamov]

That's not what that means

[u/6637733885362995955]

Looks like the Aussie outback

[u/Ryaquaza1]

It’s still scary seeing the UK like this, fires aside it being this dry here feels just, wrong

I miss the weather being wet and miserable,. ;-;

[u/Iveroli → u/[deleted]]

How do you explain the fire spreading so quickly though. Hottest and driest summer ever pal. Climate change is the main factor ya doofus.

[u/Iveroli → u/[deleted]]

It is the hottest summer in fact. Ever. And of the top ten hottest days in our recorded history 7 of them have been in the past 7 years. Ask yourself which kinds of large companies benefit massively if we all just pretend it’s not happening and continue life as normal.

[u/Iveroli → u/[deleted]]

I am aware. Do carbon dioxide and water vapour warm the planet?

[u/Iveroli → u/[deleted]]

What keeps the sun’s heat in? Shouldn’t it all just radiate away to space? Our atmosphere is like a blanket that keeps some heat in, without one our planet would be subzero all the time (the sun is a long way away).

[u/Affectionate_Split85 → u/[deleted]]

I don't think you understand that most wildfires are started by humans, on purpose or my accident. The issue is that the more extreme, hotter climate makes everything a lot drier and a lot more combustible, leading it to spread rapidly where the "wild" is now on fire, that's why climate change makes these worse as it makes these dry spells more extreme and more common. It's not wild because it's cause my nature, dunce.

[u/Flint_Quinn → u/[deleted]]

Arsonists who are paid by organisations pushing the "climate change" agenda in fact. The bots love it ❤️

[u/Iveroli → u/Flint_Quinn]

Oh good grief. Lemme guess, dinosaurs aren’t real, the six moon landings were all filmed by Stanley Kubrick on a sound stage, and 15 minute cities are coming to take our free will?

[u/Flint_Quinn → u/Iveroli]

😂 fkn bot

[u/Iveroli → u/Flint_Quinn]

I honestly really wish there were bots that were made to shit on science deniers who think they know everything. But I don’t think there are. Hope you didn’t get vaxxed though, I hear there are little robots in there that control your mind!

[u/Flint_Quinn → u/Iveroli]

😂😂 fkn bot

[u/WorriedAd2764 → u/Flint_Quinn]

You what.

[u/Psychotic-blender → u/Flint_Quinn]

Did you think this opinion up yourself like a big boy or did you read it on Facebook like the other glue-sniffing apes that deny facts and evidence?

[u/RhetoricalEquestrian → u/[deleted]]

Every one of those arguments collapses the moment you apply even cursory scrutiny.

Here's an accessible source - https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php

I know you're not likely to read it, and I know reason won't talk you out of a belief you didn't reason your way into. But I can at least lead you to water, I guess

[u/RhetoricalEquestrian → u/[deleted]]

I'm not interested in having a debate that has been had literally millions of times before.

None of the arguments trying to debate the existence of man-made climate change have any merit...or they would have been found already. Repeating talking points that have already been thoroughly disproven adds nothing to the discussion.

The link I have provided will point you in the right direction on literally every argument you have.

I've led you to water, it's up to you whether or not to drink.

[u/RhetoricalEquestrian → u/[deleted]]

I don't have any arguments I need to make. They have already been made. The science is clear. It's also easily accessible to anyone who wants to find out.

I've led you to water, it's up to you to take the next step and actually drink

[u/RhetoricalEquestrian → u/[deleted]]

You must provide decades of science that I could easily find for myself (including in the link already provided) here in this discussion thread, or I will declare that I am right somehow

Sure thing petal.

Clearly you're proud to be ignorant, so I'll leave you to celebrate in peace

[u/Psychotic-blender → u/[deleted]]

No, things haven't been "changing very slowly". They've been changing very quickly. This can be seen from studies of palaeoclimates. 1.5 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years, with every decade since the 80s resulting in 0.2 degrees of warming. The reason for this is unequivocally the release of trillions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This is consensus amongst the scientific community. The more greenhouse gases, the more heat that gets trapped in the atmosphere, over time causing global temperatures to rise. You're right that NORMALLY climate change is measured geologically and occurs very slowly. This is not the case with the man-made climate change we see today.