The Northeast is becoming fire country

Global warming may bring us more rain overall, but the current high pressure system (expected to end tonight?) has kept rain away from us for 2 months now, which wasn't helping anything.

The article doesn't mention that 700 full-time park workers were cut in Eric Adams' budget. 50 of those park workers were forestry specialists, who did things such as removing sick/dead trees, and clearing the sort of brush/debris that is easily ignitable.

We see this over and over again: whatever money you "save" by delaying or skipping maintenance, you end up having to spend when something actually breaks.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F3...

[2] https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/07/01/parks-budget-shrinks-eric...

[3] https://thechiefleader.com/stories/urban-forest-program-gutt...

[4] https://hellgatenyc.com/parks-budget-cuts-let-it-burn/

You don't witness self-refuting articles very often. Editors must already be on holiday.

>But the tree rings also show droughts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and a severe drought in the nineteen-sixties. (1963 was a particularly tragic wildfire season in New Jersey.) The Earth’s atmosphere is complex enough that, every now and then, Seager explained, “something really strange is going to happen and there’s going to be a long sequence of dry weather.”

Yes there were fires, but unless something changed, the NE is suppose to get more rain with Climate Change.

So I doubt there will ever be fires in the NE that compare to the West. This is due to a drough that does happen once in a while.

If there was no fire new NYC, I doubt this article would be published :)

Until they have a website called isnewenglandonfire.com that simply replies with a date stamp and the word Yes, then no. iscaliforniaonfire.com

Farmer and small private forest manager here. We need more logging and controlled burns to control the fuel.

I find it all amusing. A few hundred or thousand acres burn in NY/NJ and everyone loses their shit. Watching the newscasts, governor and other admins talk about the issue they make it seem like something we have never witnessed before as a human race. Meanwhile in my home state of California (often mocked and judged by the rest of the nation), they are dealing with fires that burn hundreds of thousands of acres.

NY: "Statewide, there are currently six wildfires in New York State encompassing nearly 6,031 acres, including the Jennings Creek/Sterling State Park fire. "

CA: 1,040,146 acres burned this year.

So next time you wanna talk shit about California and how they handle wildfires, take a look at the amateur hour response from the east coast first.