Fires set stage for irreversible forest losses in Australia, some scientists say

Humane Society International Crisis Response Specialist, Kelly Donithan looks for injured wildlife in a burnt out forest on Kangaroo Island on January 15, 2020. Scientists say many forests in Australia may never recover from the bushfires ravaging the country.Australia’s forests are burning at a rate unmatched in modern times and scientists say the landscape is being permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound changes to the island continent.

Flames have blazed through jungles dried out by drought, such as Eungella National Park, where shrouds of mist have been replaced by smoke. “I’m expecting major areas of loss this year, mainly because we will not have sufficient seed to sow them,” said Owen Bassett of Forest Solutions, a private company that works with government agencies to reseed forests by helicopter following fires.

The changing landscape has major implications for Australia’s diverse wildlife. The fires in Eungella National Park, for example, threaten “frogs and reptiles that don’t live anywhere else,” said University of Queensland ecologist Diana Fisher. “It’s in Canada, California, Greece, Portugal, Australia,” Westerling said. “This portends what we can expect — a new reality. I prefer not to use the term ‘new normal’… This is more like a downward spiral.”Forests can shift locations over time. However, that typically unfolds over thousands of years, not the decades over which the climate has been warming.

I have catastrophe fatigue from the media.

Climate change cultists are running around lighting the place on fire so they can go “see climate change”

Scientists & experts make even the most common sense things sound like rocket science. Complicated. AustralianWildFires

Nah it will grow back. Just charge the arsonists. And never let em go.

I'm an expert, and these scientists are wrong

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