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Originally Posted by JMintzer
No, lightning strikes are causing the forest fires. Just like they've done for thousands of years. It helps keep the forests healthy.
Here's an entire page of light reading you can do...
The Giant Sequoias NEED forest fires in order to reproduce. They NEED the intense heat, which causes their cones to release seeds...
The fires also add nutrients back into the soil...
forest fires release seeds - Google Search |
Nothing wrong with natural, normal levels of lightning strikes and forest fires - I agree. The problem like CO2 is the EXCESS CO2 and the Excess dryness in the West DUE TO Global Warming. Mother nature was doing fine at maintaining balance before the Industrial Revolution but because of IC fossil fuel engines emitting CO2 and increased population (from 1 T to 8 Trillion) driving them - the main Mother could NO LONGER maintain the balance. Thus, Global warming took over! Now we have EXTREMES of everything Heat, fires, species extinction, and even EXCESS acid in our oceans killing reef coral - the main feeding and breeding ground for saltwater FISH.