Comments by "ElephantInTheRoom " (@elephantintheroom5678) on "Fire burns area larger than most countries. Officials can't stop it" video.

  1.  @bobwoods1302  This much fire is NOT A GOOD THING; and it is happening almost every year now. Don't try to normalise this. This is the effects of climate change, and the massive heatwaves and dryness resulting from it.
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  2.  @bobwoods1302  I read you perfectly well - you were minimising and normalising the situation.
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  3. Some have made gigafactories to produce megapack batteries to store excess solar energy and supply it to the grid.
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  4.  @stewartbonner  The jet stream dip is being caused by the fact that the Arctic circle is warming at 4 times the rate of the rest of the planet, which causes the thin sea ice to melt within a couple of days of summer sun, exposing the blue water which is heating the Arctic even more. The jet stream usually keeps the heat out and the cold in the Arctic circle region, but now it isn't, and heat from Africa and the Tropics is moving up into the Northern Hemisphere. This is the effects of climate change, caused by the uninhibited burning of fossil fuels.
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  5.  @Someaddress555s  But THIS is not a "fast moving brush fire", it has been burning for MONTHS, also, the branches and bark ARE dried out by drought.
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  6. Thank you so much for entering this comment here, countering some of the nonsense about animals just walking out and then returning unharmed and unaffected. I'm another Aussie, and I appreciate your sensible comment.
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  7.  @salauerman7082  Drought and dry lightning started the Australian fires.
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  8.  @stewartbonner  In Australia millions of animals were killed by the fires, and countless more starved because their habitat was destroyed. Also, rivers of fish died when rain run-off after the fires polluted the water, causing eutrophication, which deoxygenated the water.
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  9.  @FakeSchrodingersCat  After large fires there are often large floods. What then happens is soil runs-off into the waterways, causing eutrophication and consequent deoxygenation of the water, which kills the fish and can cause toxic algal blooms in the rivers and lakes or ocean, which kill the fish.
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  10.  LadieKatie  We are out of control, THAT's the PROBLEM - our out of control greed and stupidity in destroying our own conditions for civilisation to continue.
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  11.  @FakeSchrodingersCat  It happens in areas of shallow soil, too. Furthermore, in areas of shallow soil there is the further problem of so much soil running off that there isn't enough to support growth afterwards, as only bare rock remains. After extreme, widespread fires like this there is no grass roots to hold the soil together. So when the rain comes it all washes away, downhill into the waterways.
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  12.  @Hebdomad7  Don't remind me. At least we got old Scomo out. Luckily.
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  13. It's climate change, just like the heatwaves all over the place. The ocean has reached its maximum capacity to absorb the excess heat of climate change (see the hot ocean off Florida?), so atmospheric heating is about to accelerate at a faster pace. So prepare for far worse.
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  14.  @Vee-jc1qh  And ICE vehicles catch fire at an even greater rate. You didn't know that, did you? Google it.
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  15.  @goodeye6373  Spot on.
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  16.  @bobwoods1302  NOT at this scale and severity, NOR so widespread around the WORLD.
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  17.  @konigstiger3252  I was dux of my senior year, so no.
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  18.  @goodeye6373  Exactly
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  19.  @emmyo6678  NOT AT THIS SCALE!!!! (See, capitals and 4 exclamation points!)
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  20.  @Someaddress555s  I've read your comments, knucklehead, and they didn't "cover " drought/water issue correctly, at all. And let me tell you, in fires like this very few of the big trees will survive, they will burn on the inside for weeks after the main blaze has passed, and then they will crash to the ground, hollowed out from the inside. You don't know what you're talking about, mate.
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  21.  @YankeeDoodle2  Get your head out of the sand. There are unprecedented heatwaves across Europe and China, and devastating floods in other parts of the world. China and other parts have recorded their hottest temperatures ever recorded. Osman et al have proven that there has never been such a sudden and rapid and sustained global heating in the last 24,000 years. Yep, this IS climate change.
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  22.  @SickndSoul  Wow! You're a genius! Not.
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  23.  @SickndSoul  😂
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  24.  @MikeySlou  Any that managed to dodge it will starve.
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